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Kevin Stranack

Why We Need Open Knowledge Societies - 2 views

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    "Every day we face challenges - from the personal, such as the quickest way to get to work, or what we should eat, to global ones like climate change and how to sustainably feed and educate seven billion people on this planet. At Open Knowledge we believe that opening up data - and turning that data into insight - can be crucial to addressing these challenges, and building a society in which is everyone - not just the few - are empowered with the knowledge they need to understand and effect change."
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    really good! I think this is a very good summary about what we are learning in this course: "We need to create a culture of "open data makers", people able and ready to make apps and insights with open data. We need to connect open data with those who have the best questions and the biggest needs - a healthcare worker in Zambia, the London commuter travelling home - and go beyond the data geeks and the tech savvy to make data be useful to all."
mbishon

Learning in an Introductory Physics MOOC: All Cohorts Learn Equally, Including an On-Ca... - 1 views

shared by mbishon on 27 Sep 14 - No Cached
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    MIT Research Paper - The pre- and posttesting showed substantial learning: The students had a normalized gain slightly higher than typical values for a traditional course, but significantly lower than typical values for courses using interactive engagement pedagogy. Importantly, both the normalized gain and the IRT analysis of pre- and posttests showed that learning was the same for different cohorts selected on various criteria: level of education, preparation in math and physics, and overall ability in the course. We found a small positive correlation between relative improvement and prior educational attainment. Interactive engagement pedagogy is where students regularly interact in small groups and participate in peer-to-peer learning.
Kevin Stranack

Mexican policy-making on OA: a bitter-tweet state of affairs | Sociology of science and... - 1 views

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    An overview of the new OA policy in Mexico.
Kevin Stranack

What is Open Science and what role does it play in Development? - 4 views

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    Slides from Leslie Chan's talk on What is Open Science and What Role Does it Play in Development?
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    Is true that open access benefits the academic development of students and agree with it, but it would also be important to know whether college students and teachers and researchers know how to use information resources open access or if known. It is important to give more publicity to information resources in order to open the knowledge society makes use of them to create new knowledge for society.
lauren_maggio

Creating impact - a game of two halves - - 2 views

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    "So what did I learn from this novel experience? For me, it was the combined power of social media and open access publishing. Social media acted as a sign post to the research for a wide range of people, largely outside academia. Open access then meant that everyone could read it."
lauren_maggio

SURF | Special edition on didactics of Open and Online Education - 4 views

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    "Special edition on didactics of Open and Online Education(Publicatie) This special edition contains several articles and intermezzos on the didactics of Open and Online Education."
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    Thank you Lauren. You've found a great resource from my home country!
Jacynthe Touchette

Together we are stronger: charities join forces to support open access (UK) - 2 views

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    A great news, especially for the "immediately" aspect! "A consortium of six leading UK medical research charities will support the costs of making research articles from their funded research immediately and freely openly available to scientists, patients, and donors alike, through the recently announced joint Charity Open Access Fund."
mbishon

Social Science Research Network (SSRN) - 1 views

shared by mbishon on 21 Sep 14 - No Cached
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    I have found some interesting research publications on this site, in particular to MOOCs. Leading Social Science Research Delivered Daily Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences. Each of SSRN's networks encourages the early distribution of research results by distributing Submitted abstracts and by soliciting abstracts of top quality research papers around the world. We now have hundreds of journals, publishers, and institutions in Partners in Publishing that provide working papers for distribution through SSRN's eLibrary and abstracts for publication in SSRN's electronic journals. The SSRN eLibrary consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 563,000 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 465,300 downloadable full text documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format. The eLibrary also includes the research papers of a number of Fee Based Partner Publications. The Networks encourage readers to communicate directly with authors and other subscribers concerning their own and others' research. To facilitate this we publish detailed author contact information including email addresses for authors of each paper.
dudeec

Specials Issue from Nature on the future of scienctific publishing, March 2013 - 0 views

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    This is a special issue from Nature Magazine on the future of science publishing and open access. In addition to the feature articles, the comments also provide different perspectives.
kristin_k

Kit de Dados Abertos - 0 views

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    Seen on Open Knowledge Foundation "Recently Brazilian government released the Kit de Dados Abertos (open data toolkit): The toolkit is made up of documents describing the process, methods and techniques for implementing an open data policy within an institution. Its goal is to both demystify the logic of opening up data and to share with public employees observed best practices that have emerged from a number of Brazilian government initiatives. The toolkit focuses on the Plano de Dados Abertos - PDA (Open Data Plan) as the guiding instrument where commitments, agenda and policy implementation cycles in the institution are registered. making it a state policy and not just a transitory governmental action. It is organizsd to facilitate the implementation of the main activities cycles that must be observed in an institution and provides links and manuals to assist in these activities. Emphasis is given to the actors/roles involved in each step and their responsibilities. Is also helps to define a central person to monitor and maintain the PDA. The following diagram summarises the macro steps of implementing an open data policy in an institution - See more at: http://blog.okfn.org/2014/10/07/branzilian-government-develops-toolkit-to-guide-institutions-in-both-planning-and-carrying-out-open-data-initatives/#sthash.kNvTB6nC.dpuf and http://kit.dados.gov.br/
Kaitie Warren

Accelerating Impact - 0 views

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    "The Accelerating Science Award Program (ASAP) recognizes individuals who have applied scientific research - published through Open Access - to innovate in any field and benefit society". It's funded by 27 different organizations. 
dudeec

Data and scholarly publishing: the transforming landscape - 0 views

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    This article sets the scene for the special issue on research data and publishing. Research data - that material commonly accepted by the scholarly community as required evidence for hypotheses and insights, for verification and/or reproducibility of experiments - has become an increasingly critical issue for publishers given recent developments in funders' mandates, technological advances, policymakers' interests, and so forth. This is from a special issue of Learned Publishing, vol 27, September 2014. This special issue is open access.
aleksandraxhamo

open access and libraries - YouTube - 1 views

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    "Heather Joseph, Executive Directory, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, talks to the University of Maryland community about the evolution of open access and how trendlines are pointing up. Change is accelerating in the push to make information openly and freely available."
Fernando Carraro

Ser o no ser Open Access: la batalla de Randy contra las revistas de "lujo" - 2 views

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    En este post se habla de Randy Schekman y su postura sobre las revistas de lujo y el open access
alberthernandez

Revista electrónica de investigación educativa - Retrospectiva de los reposit... - 0 views

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    Retrospectiva de los repositorios de acceso abierto y tendencias en la socialización del conocimiento Retrospective of Open Access Repositories and Trends in the Socialization of Knowledge Silvia Irene Adame Rodríguez, Luis Lloréns Baez, Michel Schorr Wiener Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Edificio de Investigación y Posgrado, Blvd.
Kevin Stranack

The Planning Machine: Project Cybersyn and the origins of the Big Data nation. - 0 views

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    Originally shared by Inez in the course Google Community. From the article, by Morozov: "For all its utopianism and scientism, its algedonic meters and hand-drawn graphs, Project Cybersyn got some aspects of its politics right: it started with the needs of the citizens and went from there. The problem with today's digital utopianism is that it typically starts with a PowerPoint slide in a venture capitalist's pitch deck."
Kevin Stranack

Free software, free society: Richard Stallman at TEDxGeneva 2014 - YouTube - 3 views

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    "It is the first TEDx talk of the founder of Free Software movement. Stallman, RMS for short, has changed the world with his vision of freedom for the digital age. He launched the GNU operating system, used with Linux as a component, and inspired the development of Creative Commons licences and Wikipedia project. In this talk, Stallman describes how nonfree programs give companies control of their users and what users can do in order to recover control over their computing."
rebeccakah

Meet Kent Anderson, anti-#openaccess campaigner, publisher of Science - 1 views

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    Michael Eisen is a researcher at UC Berkley and a co-founder of Public Library of Science. He discusses the news that the American Association for the Advancement of Science named Kent Anderson as its new Publisher, who is a critic of the open access movement. The most interesting thing for me was the mention in his blog post as well as in the comments section by another, that it is perhaps a trend for scholarly publications to produce open access journals. A peculiar motive, to perhaps "own" the open movement? It would be interesting to learn more about this trend, motivations behind it, and the implications on how that affects the OA movement.
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    And then a quick Google search found an announcement that Nature will be fully open access as of 20 October 2014... but still costs $5,200 USD to cover the article processing charges - perhaps Universities should (will) start to pay these costs instead of the high costs of subscriptions to scholarly journals as they continue to open up their access. http://www.nature.com/ncomms/open_access/index.html
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    Wow--these article publishing charges are ridiculous. I don't know if the scholars whose work gets published in these esteemed journals have budgets that would allow them to cover such fees, but I am sure that I wouldn't be able to get multiple articles covered by grants for my own work in the social sciences. And I'm 99% sure that the public universities I've worked for would not be ponying up that kind of money to cover my publication fees. This seems like yet another way to penalize scholars working in fields that don't get big grants or living in countries that don't have this kind of money to throw around. I prefer the UK's policy of requiring all nationally funded research to be published open access without any publication fees. That's the only way to even the playing field.
Fernando Carraro

Best Public Domain Characters - 4 views

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    Una lista de personajes de Dominio Público. También hay otra: http://free-universe.myartsonline.com/literature.html ---- A list of characters in the public domain. There is another: http://free-universe.myartsonline.com/literature.html
veronicasoledad

Módulo 6 - 1 views

Artículo de interés: The Diamond Model of Open Access Publishing:Why Policy Makers, Scholars, Universities, Libraries, Labour Unions and the Publishing World Need to Take Non-Commercial, Non-Profit...

module6 open access publishing

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