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Gerald Louw

open access - 0 views

http://www.powtoon.com/show/bGF3aqGIZaX/open-access-week-20-16-october-2014-by-gerald-louw/#/

open access Open

started by Gerald Louw on 04 Nov 14 no follow-up yet
drchavezreyes

Open-source Scholarship - Hybrid Pedagogy - 0 views

www.hybridpedagogy.com/...open-source-scholarship

open access Knowledge schaorlaship

shared by drchavezreyes on 05 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • drchavezreyes on 05 Oct 14
     
    This source makes many of the points made in the video and readings for this week; Specifically, that scholars have a duty to use open source culture as "creation and curation of human knowledge, scholarship is an open-source endeavor. The end product - human knowledge - is not a fixed product, it is distributed, has diverse manifestations, and belongs to no individual or entity." He extends this notion to pedagogy suggesting "the best pedagogy take the best of what already exists and make it better, at least better for the task at hand."
c maggard

MOOCs -- Completion Is Not Important - 20 views

www.forbes.com/...hing-is-not-the-important-part

open access knowledge Open Module11 Privacy mooc

shared by c maggard on 11 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • c maggard on 11 Nov 14
     
    By: Matthew LeBar Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are often described as the future of education - or at least a significant part of it. But there may be a significant problem with them: a very small proportion of students who start them actually finish. This poses a serious threat to their legitimacy.
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  • embioptera on 12 Nov 14
     
    Very interesting article. I was at an Open Access week event recently that was a debate on the place of MOOCs in higher education. One point that another attendee raised about the completion rate of MOOCs that seemed really important to me was that many MOOCs require participants to register before viewing the content, and this can impact completion rate numbers. A person may only have the requisite information about whether or not the wish to participate once they have registered for the MOOC.
  • selviwati on 13 Nov 14
     
    Thanks for sharing this! :) I am taking MOOC course about MOOC right now. I feel like completion could be a challenge for anyone who took it. I actually agree that completion is not everything in education. Since learning is more about understanding rather than completing, I think there is no point if someone did complete his/her MOOC but he/she does not understand about what he/she learned. However, I believe, in order to fully understand the course, it is better to complete what you have started.
  • pad123 on 13 Nov 14
     
    I too feel that completion of MOOC is important. Other wise no point in participating in that MOOC. we also will get any information on the internet for knowledge gain. But there will be a regular follow up of the course for completing any MOOC. But only problem is having proper IT infrastructure to participate in that.
  • ibudule on 13 Nov 14
     
    Thank you for sharing. On the one hand one can choose form the course lessons and material that they want and choose not to complete the whole course. Then of course one can not evaluate the course judging from the completion rate. On the other hand, ability to complete what is started develops human will-power and purposefulness. Otherwise the world is full of people with unfinished educations, short-term employments etc.
  • dudeec on 14 Nov 14
     
    What the article says really is "MOOC completion rate is not a meaningful metrics about the course." Universities and institutions may need to have other metrics in order to evaluate whether to continue offer certain courses. As for individual participants, each person is her/his best critic on how much has been gained from the course.
  • Fernando Carraro on 15 Nov 14
     
    Cierto, tal vez muchos no lo terminen. Yo creo que lo importante es el conocimiento aprendido.
  • ilanab on 15 Nov 14
     
    Thanks for sharing this article. I'm in agreement with LeBar, completion of the MOOC is not the correct metric to be used for evaluation. The goal of many participants is to gain or increase knowledge on a topic which may be achieved without completing the whole course.
  • lenjomaydresden on 20 Nov 14
     
    This ongoing MOOC is hard for me to complete since there is a lot of internet and network action required which I don't like to use at the moment. Still, I got so much Information that I will try to fulfill the requirements to pass it. It is not for the statistics - but for my personal support of the MOOC instructors (I wounder whether they notice)
  • nivinsharawi on 20 Nov 14
     
    i think MOOC will be more effective for exchange of knowledge e for certain important topic for stakeholder who aim self progress development
  • Abdul Naser Tamim on 24 Nov 14
     
    I have joined another MOOC and received the "statement of accomplishment" and it was totally a big disappointment. The design and the language used reflect mentality is not related to what they are teaching online. It is underestimating people around the world time and efforts by issuing a statement is not well designed and meaningless. The question would be: does it worth it to finish any course online? the knowledge is already free and affordable all over the net, why do I need to follow an institute organized free course? People are not finishing the MOOC courses because of frustration and disappointment and this has to be reviewed.
  • erikitaymarijo on 25 Nov 14
     
    Tal vez no puede decirse que sea el futuro de la educación, pero si coadyuva para que el conocimiento pueda acercarse a cualquier persona, e incentivar al autoaprendizaje.
  • zimbron21 on 25 Nov 14
     
    Habría que preguntarse cuál es el problema de que los estudiantes no concluyan los cursos MOOC, buscar las alternativas respectivas.MOOC ventanas de oportunidad para cualquier persona.
  • vicdesotelle on 30 Nov 14
     
    This brings up the question of what it means to complete something? And why is it so important to us? And why 'productivity', a thing somebody defined ages ago, is so important to our humanity? .. or is it anymore?
  • w_kwai on 03 Dec 14
     
    Because I am taking a MOOC course but also on campus at University, I receive credits and grades where this is definitely one of the motivations for me to contribute. Although I agree that completion of the course is not essential to attain knowledge, what about our motivations to learn? And what about our incentives? Not saying MOOCs are not interesting nor helpful, I like MOOCs, but I think people like recognition too. I think to just receive the "statement of accomplishment" is not enough to prove efforts made within the course. However MOOCs are not as well developed at this stage, there definitely will be adjustments in the near future.
mbishon

Predatory open access publishing - 0 views

en.m.wikipedia.org/...edatory_open-access_publishing

shared by mbishon on 17 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • mbishon on 17 Nov 14
     
    I was reading one of the week 12 additional resources, PKP School: Becoming a Reviewer http://pkpschool.sfu.ca/becoming-a-reviewer/ and came across the term Predatory Open Access Publishing. I guess no matter what, someone is going to try to make a buck. There is also a site that others have posted here, http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ that is where Beall's list is housed. Beall's list is a list of potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers - a good place to check if you are thinking of writing or reviewing for a journal, if it's on the list do more digging and research on the journal itself before committing to anything. The journal names all sound pretty impressive so you can't tell by name alone.
Kelly Furey

My Final Project - 5 views

Thanks for sharing Alexandra! I really appreciated your presentation in class last week. I think the OpenOrg concept is a great software for NGO's to reach out to the general public for collaborati...

open access knowledge MOOC publishing

started by Alexandra Finch on 28 Nov 14 1 follow-up, last by Kelly Furey on 03 Dec 14
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c maggard

Internet privacy - 4 views

My training is a a journalist. I spent many years as a broadcaster, getting out of the business just as myspace was taking hold. Fortunately, I did not have to open myself up to further invasions ...

module1 open access MOOC privacy publishing journalism

started by c maggard on 05 Sep 14 no follow-up yet
rogergsweden

From medieval education to 100,000 students in the classroom - 5 views

youtu.be/tYclUdcsdeo

module7 mooc oer

shared by rogergsweden on 19 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • rogergsweden on 19 Oct 14
     
    How an open course can work. "We don't want the students to remember the formulas. We want to change the way they look at the world."
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  • cuptlib on 20 Oct 14
     
    Very nice, this is seriously exciting. good post....
  • Ignoramus OKMOOC on 20 Oct 14
     
    Interesting for several reasons: A MOOC with due dates, and yet only 15% get a certificate of accomplishment. Nearly half of the students watched less than a video a week, that is less than 60 minutes in ten week. Any class with this kind of record would be considered a failure in a traditional setting. Yet it seems, the "teachers" were more interested in the data they gathered on student interaction than on the success of their students. But it is good that you can glean this kind of information from the video - therefore: Good post.
  • embioptera on 28 Oct 14
     
    I found this video really interesting. The attempt to emulate a one-on-one learning interaction through the structure of the videos was an interesting, emotionally engaging, concept. The actual completion rate of the particular MOOC discussed wasn't very high, but it would be interesting to look at it in the context of other similar MOOCs. Even though this video was interesting it went the way that many TED talks go. Very emotionally engaging, but left me with lots of questions and wanting more.
  • Sam M on 28 Oct 14
     
    Awesome! Interesting and informative.
  • Ana Muñoz de Rivera on 29 Oct 14
     
    I liked how Ted explains the way students access to Open Courses and how right he is when he says that if there are no due dates, even if the topic is very interesting, there are always other things to do first, therefore, you end up not doing it. I am also with him in not doing moocs to long that can get you bored and end up losing all your attention.
  • brunoapolonio on 30 Oct 14
     
    very informative!
c maggard

short video-intellectual property for business - 2 views

While it may not be univeristy-calibre, attached is a down-and-dirty video outlining and defining intellectual property. Again, it's very simplistic, but it gets the point across. There are things ...

open access module 5 publishing open knowledge mooc intellectual property

started by c maggard on 02 Oct 14 1 follow-up, last by c maggard on 02 Oct 14
fraup74

German universities scrap all tuition fees | The Times - 1 views

www.thetimes.co.uk/...article4213550.ece

open access module 5

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  • fraup74 on 02 Oct 14
     
    All German universities will be free of charge when term starts next week after fees were abandoned in Lower Saxony, the last of seven states to charge. "Tuition fees are socially unjust," said Dorothee Stapelfeldt, senator for science in Hamburg, which scrapped charges in 2012.
  • fraup74 on 02 Oct 14
     
    Could this also be 'open access'?
  • cuptlib on 02 Oct 14
     
    ...to see the full text you need to subscribe ...ironically I hit pay wall again!
jmnavarr

Open access week - 0 views

http://www.openaccessweek.org/page/about Here you are the url of this event. You can find what is on this matter in this url and more information about these global events.

open access module4

started by jmnavarr on 28 Sep 14 no follow-up yet
egmaggie

Argumentation Step-By-Step: Learning Critical Thinking through Deliberate Practice - 3 views

www.pdcnet.org/...l_2012_0035_0001_0045_0066.pdf

module10 critical thinking literacies

shared by egmaggie on 05 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • egmaggie on 05 Nov 14
     
    Rheingold's video this week got me to thinking about the critical thinking pedagogies that were used by my undergraduate professors. This article demonstrates an in depth glance on what critical thinking pedagogy can look like. While seemingly tangential to open access as a whole, I think Rheingold's discussion of literacies is rather important, and if open access is a successful movement it will need to be equipped with critical thinkers and actors.
bmierzejewska

Open Access Week - 1 views

www.openaccessweek.org

open access knowledge

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  • bmierzejewska on 17 Oct 14
     
    It is happening!
itsmedianelee

Will sunshine database clarify or cloud researchers' industry ties? - 0 views

news.sciencemag.org/...loud-researchers-industry-ties

open knowledge open access cloud database free online

shared by itsmedianelee on 09 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • itsmedianelee on 09 Oct 14
     
    A federal database publicly disclosing companies' payments to doctors went live this week, drawing a splash of attention to the $3.5 billion given to physicians over 5 months last year. Although one purpose of the site is to shine light on potential conflicts of interest in research, the site may fall short of that goal.
Julia Echeverría

Transitioning to College via a MOOC - 7 views

mitopencourseware.wordpress.com/...itioning-to-college-via-a-mooc

open access Knowledge open MOOC publishing module 9

shared by Julia Echeverría on 01 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • Julia Echeverría on 01 Nov 14
     
    Coming soon to MITx on edX is a new kind of MOOC-a MOOC to help high school students better prepare for college. Many students who arrive at college find themselves struggling with the courses they must take, as their high school experience has not provided them with the necessary preparation to do well at college....
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  • ibudule on 01 Nov 14
     
    Preparatory courses for the next study level are a good idea in many countries. The MOOC form can be really a good experience for the future college students both from the subject content and technology use point of view.
  • chuckicks on 01 Nov 14
     
    Bookmarking this as I have two students at home who enjoy learning via MOOCs.
  • mbishon on 03 Nov 14
     
    I took this coursera course in the summer - Learning How to Learn - https://www.coursera.org/course/learning It was really well put together with lots of practical ideas to implement right away. It's being offered regularly and is only 4 weeks long, very worthwhile.
tlsohn

Will Apple Satisfy Regulators Over HealthKit Data Privacy? - 1 views

www.forbes.com/...rs-over-healthkit-data-privacy

mooc privacy open access

shared by tlsohn on 06 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • tlsohn on 06 Sep 14
     
    Considering digital identities, here's an interesting article over a new form of data privacy: our health. As health devices (i.e. smart watches) become more available and mainstream we should consider what type of data we want 'floating' around the internet such as our weights/BMIs or whatever other personal information the health device may obtain. This is one issue that the increase in technology and social communication has brought to us (not entirely a bad thing)…more personal data becoming easily accessible for advertisers. "This week, Apple has updated its privacy policy to try and ensure that developers don't market personal healthcare data to advertisers and brokers. The company is betting big on its new HealthKit platform, part of iOS 8. It gives developers a set of APIs to share their apps' data with Apple's […]"
ricbruno

DIGCOMP: A Framework for Developing and Understanding Digital Competence in Europe - 1 views

ftp.jrc.es/JRC83167.pdf

Module3 skills

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  • ricbruno on 06 Nov 14
     
    In week 3 we've addressed how open knowledge can promote active citizenship. A pre-requisite for that is that individuals are equipped with the right set of digital skills. Being digital native does not necessarily imply that one is digital competent. The promotion of digital skills is at least as important as ensuring accessibility to technology. This document is a reference framework to identify what are the different elements of digital skills as these go much beyond than merely knowing how to use a computer. This has been developed by the European Commission, engaging several different stakeholders from several countries, and is being used as a support to strategies for the promotion of digital skills.
Megan H

Tech, equipment makers join U.S. 'net neutrality' debate - 0 views

www.reuters.com/...utrality-idUSKBN0H40UP20140909

open access privacy module1 netflix net-nuetrality

shared by Megan H on 10 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Megan H on 10 Sep 14
     
    All credit to theSkimm, definitely caught my attention and leaves me wanting to learn/understand further... WHAT TO SAY WHEN THE NEXT EPISODE OF "HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER" WON'T LOAD… Barney blocked. Today, Netflix and a bunch of other big-name websites like Etsy, Kickstarter, and WordPress are protesting to support net neutrality. The sites will be showing a picture of the 'spinning wheel of death' loading symbol - not to make sure you're still breathing, but as a friendly reminder that this could be the future. Refresher: net neutrality is the idea that all content on the Internet should be treated equally, and preference shouldn't be given to sites willing to pay for faster connections. That's not what happens now. There's currently no regulation over how Internet providers treat traffic from different websites. The FCC's been listening to comments on some new rules for monitoring pay-to-play. They're going to stop listening to everyone's opinions next week.
rafopen

Hacking the Academy: New Approaches to Scholarship and Teaching from Digital Humanities - 0 views

www.digitalculture.org/...aching-from-digital-humanities

higher education hacking scholarship Module 11

shared by rafopen on 15 Nov 14 - No Cached
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  • rafopen on 15 Nov 14
     
    There are two versions (at least) of this text. One earlier version is a first draft of sorts "A BOOK CROWDSOURCED IN ONE WEEK MAY 21-28, 2010" http://hackingtheacademy.org/ The url supplied above (http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=dh;c=dh;idno=12172434.0001.001;rgn=full%20text;view=toc;xc=1;g=dculture) gives you access to the slicker version. Both can be read online. The text professes to a hacker ethos: "1 The world is full of fascinating problems waiting to be solved. 2 No problem should ever have to be solved twice. 3 Boredom and drudgery are evil. 4 Freedom is good. 5 Attitude is no substitute for competence." One of the opening chapters encourages academics to "get out of the business." "Burn the boats/books" focuses on the need to move away from "librocentrism." Something I hadn't thought of: "A PDF document is not a web-based document. It is a print-based document distributed on the web." This is to make the point that online materials should be interactive, which a pdf is not. The focus is hacking scholarship, teaching, and institutions. Seems worth dipping into here and there .
c maggard

Bring developing companies on-board - 1 views

The overarching theme this week is getting developing countries on-board. The videos presented made a good argument, and rightly pointed out that the main consumers of MOOCs, and indeed to the tech...

open access knowledge module 11

started by c maggard on 11 Nov 14 no follow-up yet
w_kwai

Privacy advocates unmask Twitter troll - 1 views

www.theguardian.com/...advocates-unmask-twitter-troll

module2 module10 digital identity

shared by w_kwai on 03 Dec 14 - No Cached
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  • w_kwai on 03 Dec 14
     
    What happens when you troll Tor developers hard? You get unmasked. Towards the end of last week, a troll who had sent various aggressive tweets to a host of security experts and privacy advocates associated with the Tor project and browser, which enables online anonymity, had his identity exposed.
  • w_kwai on 04 Dec 14
     
    It is important to stand up against all kinds of bullying, in this case it is cyberbullying. But what is the difference when it comes to someone bullies you, and you bully that person back? It is still bullying. Although I think some actions should be taken to tackle the people trolling, it is difficult because of the massive amount of people who are leaving angry or horrible responses. To monitor every netizens activity is impossible and inefficient, it also violates privacy rights (even when we know we are monitored at some point). What do you think about creating filters? I think that will restrict the freedom of speech people have. So is having freedom and open access such a brilliant thing? Would it not cause moral conflicts? Education and moral standards would not always relate, because emotions is one of the measures too.
  • talenwu on 04 Dec 14
     
    Thanks for your sharing. A lot of people have been the victim of cyberbullying, the reason of cyberbullying has become increasingly common might has some relationship with the advanced technology and also due to people can say whatever they want to say by hiding behind their digital identities, so they do not care about moral standard any more. And it's true that it's really hard to take action to everyone who involved in cyberbullying because the amount is huge.
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