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Mark Cardwell

AidData 3.0 | Open data for international development - 1 views

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    An organization dedicated to visualizing open data around international aid
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    Interesting examples for those of us who work in those fields. To get people to communicate and start producing material, sharing educational resources and other, it takes those knowledges you present here about open data in the International perspective.
Jannicke Røgler

lokalhistoriewiki.no - 1 views

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    NLI is responsible for the websites lokalhistorie.no, lokalhistoriewiki.no and toll.lokalhistorie.no. NLI also publishes sources, handbooks, overviews of literature and sources, questioners, as well as other aids for local historians. In cooperation with the National Federation of Local History Associations (Landslaget for lokalhistorie), NLI publishes the magazine Lokalhistorisk magasin. NLI also organises seminars and conferences related to local history topics.
eglemarija

Citizen Cyberlab: Learning & creativity aided by ICT - 4 views

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    Citizen Cyberlab's repository of online resources on citizen science: a collection of over 500 references concerning education, crowdsourcing, participation and much more!
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    It is a pity that most of these papers are not open, not free...
ibudule

Arab Spring & Citizen Journalism - 2 views

Technologies can be used in different ways and for various purposes.

Module3

Walco Solutions

JOB ORIENTED CERTIFIED INDUSTRY INTEGRATED PROGRAM - 0 views

Walco solutions was designed and conceived with the vision to mold professionals and students to meet the challenges in the real world industry with the aid of excellent training.For more details...

started by Walco Solutions on 27 May 15 no follow-up yet
Mark Cardwell

International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) - 1 views

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    This is a project to make financial information and results on global development open and easy to understand
lauren_maggio

Rebirth Of Science : Bernard Rentier at TEDx Liege - YouTube - 2 views

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    I love the idea that progress and science being based on communication. Often the idea that I have in my mind is a scientist working alone, and that is never truly how the great break-throughs come, but rather from building on the science that we have learned about previously. I still have a problem with the Author Pay part of Open Access publishing, and it seems like it is not actually "Open" if you have to pay to play. The Utopic Version is really the way that I think of "Open" publishing even with all the pit falls of finding the Utopia. I like the rebirth by giving the onus to the reader to review, and that is a model that works as seen by Wikipedia, because people are willing to aid progress with out conventional compensation. I understand all of the problems with this, but I love the possibility.
Alexandra Finch

Exploring the Benefits and Challenges of Using Laptop Computers in Higher Education Cla... - 0 views

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    Kay, R., Lauriclla, S. (2011). Exploring the Benefits and Challenges of Using Laptop Computers in Higher Education Classrooms: A Formative Analysis. Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology. 37:1
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    a. Laptops and mobile devices are ubiquitous in todays classrooms as students are digital natives. Because of decreasing prices of technology over the past few decades, an overwhelming majority of the university students surveyed own a laptop (87%). Because of this quick onset of technological adoption, culture has lagged, in terms of re-defining the social institutions that such mobile and computer technologies affect. According to this analysis, students feel that the use of a laptop helps in aiding studies, is useful for gathering course and supplementary materials and engaging in peer collaboration. Several challenges have been noted: communication based challenges, relating to social media, email and messaging services; and entertainment based challenges, relating to media consumption. These challenges serve as potential sources of distraction for the student using the technology and others. In their findings, 16% of students reported being distracted by pornography during class, on their own or others' computer screens, which ranked higher than computer games, at 1%. The authors conclude that the benefits of laptop use in class outweigh the challenges 2:1. Possibly, if the functionality of student laptops are integrated into course curriculum further, students can benefit from further peer collaboration, increased academic benefit and decreased distractions.
christofhar

Open Development - 2 views

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    Open development is about making information and data freely available and searchable, encouraging feedback, information-sharing, and accountability. We've opened our data, knowledge and research to foster innovation and increase transparency in development, aid flows, and finances. Learn more here.
Kevin Stranack

Frontiers | Deep impact: unintended consequences of journal rank | Frontiers in Human N... - 1 views

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    "the data lead us to argue that any journal rank (not only the currently-favored Impact Factor) would have this negative impact. Therefore, we suggest that abandoning journals altogether, in favor of a library-based scholarly communication system, will ultimately be necessary. This new system will use modern information technology to vastly improve the filter, sort and discovery functions of the current journal system."
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    Talk about an ambitious suggestion! As we've talked about this in class, I'm not surprised to find scientific research that impact factor is bad scientific (not to mention business) practice. I'm also very interested in this idea of alternative scholarly communication systems; and if libraries are to play a central role, I have to assume that projects like institutional repositories would play an enormous part in this new system. I wonder what this suggests about altmetrics, though? Are we just putting a band-aid on a deep wound, and treating the symptom instead of the disease?
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