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anonymous

Institutional Repositories Should Be Built on Open Source Software - 0 views

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  • Institutional Repositories Should Be Built on Open Source Software
  • Open source [1] developers and users are unusually passionate about their work, unusual in ways that make things work well. So let me begin passionately as we talk about open source as the solution for support of institutional repositories.
  • Now that we have that behind us, let's discuss some of the myths and some of the reasons for dedicating your institutional repository to the use of open source software, open standards and open formats which, I contend, are inseparable.
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  • Institutional repositories have taken a few knocks in the six years since Cliff Lynch's “Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age” appeared in ARL 226 [4]. But I'm concerned more here about the upcoming crashes than the bumps we hit on the road to more settled standardizations. 
  • Proprietary software vendors often try to finesse the open source access promise by offering small customizable ports of entry into their code, usually as application program interfaces or APIs.
  • For a long time, it has been argued that the market, as represented by proprietary software solutions, is more responsive to the needs of users, to new requirements and to innovations. Open source is now seen as a diverse infrastructure of solutions each in competition while also free to borrow from each other.
  • The ends and the means of institutional repositories are one and the same. The infrastructure that supports open access needs to be open itself.
  • A quick glance at the most recent statistics produced by the OpenDOAR Directory of Open Access Repositories suggests that the vast majority of existing institutional repositories are currently built upon open source software.
  • anonymous on 03 Apr 09
     
    Proprietary software vendors often try to finesse the open source access promise by offering small customizable ports of entry into their code, usually as application program interfaces or APIs. Like software escrow promises, this is a short-term solution to our long-term problems in curation of our valuable materials within our repositories.
Elena Lopez

Google Faces Antitrust Investigation for Agreement to Digitize Millions of Books Online - 0 views

www.democracynow.org/...st_investigation_for_agreement

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shared by Elena Lopez on 01 May 09 - Cached
  • Elena Lopez on 01 May 09
     
    Interesting points about who will own access to classics and out-of-print books (i.e., information) once they are digitized for the web... "We speak to Brewster Kahle, founder of the non-profit internet library Archive.org. He's among critics warning Google could end up with a monopoly of access to information and exclusive license to profit from millions of books."
anonymous

Bookmark Shortcuts (and, optionally, Foxmarks/Xmarks) - 0 views

www.chrislott.org/...rks-local-bookmarks-arent-dead

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shared by anonymous on 02 Apr 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 02 Apr 09
     
    Firefox's bookmark shortcuts are criminally underused. It just makes sense to me to hit CTRL-L (or CTRL-T and then CTRL-L if I want a new tab) and type "g chris lott" to ego surf or "flickrcc dancing monkeys" to search for Creative Commons licensed images on flickr, etc. Here's a list of my current collection of bookmark shortcuts and the key words I use, some of which you might find useful
anonymous

Yale Open Courses: Online Video Lectures and Course Materials - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 26 May 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 26 May 09
     
    Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.
Philipp Schmidt

Save Elsewhere - 0 views

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shared by Philipp Schmidt on 31 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Philipp Schmidt on 31 Mar 09
     
    Good idea to set this up, so that all your diigo bookmarks are also available to del.icio.us users.
  • Philipp Schmidt on 31 Mar 09
     
    This is an easy way to automatically post new bookmarks to del.icio.us. You need a del.icio.us account to set it up.
anonymous

[publishing] Giving It Away | Cory Doctorow - 0 views

www.forbes.com/...z_cd_books06_1201doctorow.html

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shared by anonymous on 02 Apr 09 - Cached
  • I've been giving away my books ever since my first novel came out, and boy has it ever made me a bunch of money.
  • Most people who download the book don't end up buying it, but they wouldn’t have bought it in any event, so I haven’t lost any sales, I’ve just won an audience
  • The thing about an e-book is that it's a social object. It wants to be copied from friend to friend, beamed from a Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ) device, pasted into a mailing list. It begs to be converted to witty signatures at the bottom of e-mails
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  • I've done this with three novels and a short story collection (and I'll be doing it with two more novels and another collection in the next year), and my books have consistently outperformed my publisher's expectations
  • perhaps the most social of all literary genres. Science fiction is driven by organized fandom, volunteers who put on hundreds of literary conventions in every corner of the globe, every weekend of the year.
  • As publisher Tim O'Reilly wrote in his seminal essay, Piracy is ProgressiveTaxation, "being well-enough known to be pirated [is] a crowning achievement." I'd rather stake my future on a literature that people care about enough to steal than devote my life to a form that has no home in the dominant medium of the century.
  • t's good business for me, too. This "market research" of giving away e-books sells printed books. What's more, having my books more widely read opens many other opportunities for me to earn a living from activities around my writing, such as the Fulbright Chair I got at USC this year,
  • anonymous on 02 Apr 09
     
    I've been giving away my books ever since my first novel came out, and boy has it ever made me a bunch of money.
Elena Lopez

Study: class podcasts can lead to better grades - Ars Technica - 0 views

arstechnica.com/...ter-than-going-to-lectures.ars

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shared by Elena Lopez on 04 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Elena Lopez on 04 Apr 09
     
    Students perform better on tests when they use podcasts to take notes-better, even, than simply going to class. Though a recent study stops short of saying podcasts can replace classes, it shows that they can be extremely useful in supplementing lectures.
Elena Lopez

Connexions - Browse Online Texts by Subject - 0 views

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shared by Elena Lopez on 05 Apr 09 - No Cached
  • Elena Lopez on 05 Apr 09
     
    "Connexions is an environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web. Our Content Commons contains educational materials for everyone - from children to college students to professionals - organized in small modules that are easily connected into larger collections or courses. All content is free to use and reuse under the Creative Commons "attribution" license. "
kfasimpaur

The Kids Open Dictionary Builder - 0 views

dictionary.k12opened.com

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shared by kfasimpaur on 02 Apr 09 - Cached
  • kfasimpaur on 02 Apr 09
     
    This is an open (PD) dictionary intended to be simple for students, EFL students, etc. It has a glossary builder that exports to wikitext, rtf, etc.
  • kfasimpaur on 02 Apr 09
     
    If you see a use for this in a project you're doing, feel free to contact us to priorize your glossary lists.
Philipp Schmidt

Home Page | Flat World Knowledge - 0 views

www.flatworldknowledge.com

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shared by Philipp Schmidt on 31 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Philipp Schmidt on 31 Mar 09
     
    This is related to Andrew's post about the high-school.
  • Philipp Schmidt on 31 Mar 09
     
    David Wiley project to create open textbooks in a sustainable way. Received 8M VC funding to get started.
Charity Gamboa

Freedom for Professor Horacio Potel - 0 views

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Professor Horacio Potel copyright infringement

shared by Charity Gamboa on 07 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Charity Gamboa on 07 Apr 09
     
    Argentinean professor charged criminally for promoting access to knowledge. A philosophy professor in Argentina, Horacio Potel, is facing criminal charges for maintaining a website devoted to translations of works by French philosopher Jacques Derrida. His alleged crime: copyright infringement.
Charity Gamboa

Access to Knowledge - 0 views

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  • Charity Gamboa on 04 Apr 09
     
    My colleagues and I believe on the notion that access to knowledge and education is a right, hence, should be dealt in a rights-based approach
anonymous

Why academia's war with the web is bad for critical pedagogy | The Paulo and Nita Freir... - 1 views

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shared by anonymous on 05 Jun 09 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 05 Jun 09
     
    this aversion to the social web is coming at a great cost to those of us who are involved in a mission of social justice and critical pedagogy.
anonymous

Kaltura | Open Source Video Platform - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 02 Apr 09 - Cached
  • free downloadable video packages, online video player & video editor for wikis, blogs and leading web platforms
  • anonymous on 02 Apr 09
     
    This is not just another video embed tool - it includes every functionality you might need for video and rich-media, including the ability to upload/ record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix content with an online video editor, enable video responses, manage and track your video content, create playlists and much more
Elena Lopez

Online Education - Introducing the Microlecture Format - Open Education - 0 views

www.openeducation.net/...ducing-the-microlecture-format

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shared by Elena Lopez on 04 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Elena Lopez on 04 Apr 09
     
    "While one minute lectures may be beyond the scope of imagination for any veteran teacher, Shieh reports on the piloting of the concept at San Juan College in Farmington, N.M. The concept was introduced as part of a new online degree program in occupational safety last fall. According to Shieh, school administrators were so pleased with the results that they are expanding the micro-lecture concept to courses in reading and veterinary studies."
anonymous

[video] Lorna Earl: Rethinking Classroom Assessment - 0 views

www.curriculum.org/...april27.shtml

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shared by anonymous on 02 Apr 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 02 Apr 09
     
    Lorna Earl unpacks the ultimate approach to assessment AS, OF and FOR learning. NOTE: skip the opening statements and go directly to Earl. She is the star of the show.
Eleonora Panto

Wikijunior - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks - 0 views

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  • Eleonora Panto on 03 Apr 09
     
    The aim of this project is to produce age-appropriate non-fiction books for children from birth to age 12. These books are richly illustrated with photographs, diagrams, sketches, and original drawings. Wikijunior books are produced by a worldwide communi
anonymous

Open minds, open tools, open education | melanie mcbride online - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 03 Apr 09 - Cached
  • As you can see, this is a truly inspired project that combines big picture vision (open education as a movement) with practical outcomes (using Mozilla/CC to create applied tools and resources) supported and realised by a great group of open minded educators. But great ideas are nothing if they aren’t transformed into action (Paolo Freire’s idea of “praxis”). I have proposed the following project as my own goal and outcome:
  • anonymous on 03 Apr 09
     
    As you can see, this is a truly inspired project that combines big picture vision (open education as a movement) with practical outcomes (using Mozilla/CC to create applied tools and resources) supported and realised by a great group of open minded educators. But great ideas are nothing if they aren't transformed into action (Paolo Freire's idea of "praxis")
Bernard Sadaka

TheEngTeacher: 55 Ways to Bring Open Source into Education - LinuxPlanet - 0 views

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Open Source Education

shared by Bernard Sadaka on 05 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Bernard Sadaka on 05 Aug 09
     
    Ways to Bring Open Source into Education
Nate Otto

How to Save the World - 0 views

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web2.0 cooperation

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  • Nate Otto on 02 Jun 09
     
    How to use Web 2.0 tools in a corporation... but interesting for people who aren't in a corporation as well.
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