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belgm241268

Open Access & Global Education in the Third Word - 2 views

In all these discussions about open knowledge, open access, global education, et.al., my deepest concern goes out to the poorer countries of the world. It is not only how it can help them meaningfu...

Third World; Module 13; Open Access; Knowledge; Global Education; Challenges

started by belgm241268 on 07 Nov 14 no follow-up yet
lubajung

The Digital Literacy "best practices" Site - 3 views

www.netliteracy.org/digital-literacy

knowledge mooc publishing open

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  • lubajung on 14 Nov 14
     
    This is a great source about Digital Literacy and Digital Inclusion. You can find here worldwide research and news about these topics. 'The Digital Literacy "best practices" website is a reference and a celebration of the many good ideas that have been successfully used to promote digital literacy and digital inclusion'
  • dudeec on 14 Nov 14
     
    Good resource. Thanks for sharing. "Information literacy," "media literacy," "digital literacy" are all similar but yet different ideas. I am wrestling with the specifics of each. This site provides great examples.
  • yitingwang on 16 Nov 14
     
    Thank you for sharing this resource. Nowadays, people just post things on the internet and doesn't consider the following effects. Many people lack the digital literacy. They need to learn it and then protect themselves. It is a good website to help me know digital literacy and digital inclusion.
jurado-navas

LaTeX - A document preparation system - 1 views

www.latex-project.org

free software; open educational resource; module7; OKMOOC

shared by jurado-navas on 02 Nov 14 - Cached
  • jurado-navas on 02 Nov 14
     
    LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system; it includes features designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation. LaTeX is the de facto standard for the communication and publication of scientific documents. LaTeX is available as free software.
  • jurado-navas on 02 Nov 14
     
    LaTex is a document preparation system programmed in free software. It is also a document markup language. It is a very useful tool to create scientific documents in many fields, but especially appropriate to write mathematical expresions. Among its advantages, it has different dictionaries for many languages, it can be adapted to any style class and gives a professional look to any document you write. In addition, manage of bibliography references is quite simple and flexible. Latex comprises a collection of TeX macros and program to process TeX documents and convert them in PDF documents, but also in HTML, PS, EPS, DVI, etc. The other main advantage is that LaTex document scan be opened with any text editor since they consist of plain text and do not contain hidden formatting codes or binary instructions.
  • Rosa Munoz-Luna on 09 Nov 14
     
    Difícil para personas no versadas en informática, pero seguro muy útil cuando te haces con él :) Gracias por compartirlo. Saludos.
jurado-navas

Welcome to Python.org - 1 views

www.python.org

Module6 Module5 open acess

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  • jurado-navas on 13 Oct 14
     
    The official home of the Python Programming Language
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  • Fernando Carraro on 14 Oct 14
     
    También existe un lenguaje de programación llamado Julia (http://julialang.org/) bastante parecido a Python
  • c maggard on 14 Oct 14
     
    Open source is the future. Obvs, Microsoft et.al. paved the way, but moving forward, the route to privacy and access is via free software that can be adapted on the fly.
  • Fernando Carraro on 16 Oct 14
     
    Microsoft también tiene un sitio sobre "open source" llamado Codeplex (https://www.codeplex.com/), aunque no siempre se debe fiar (https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/lest-codeplex-perplex.es.html), hablan de open source, pero no de software libre.
jurado-navas

InTech - Open Science Open Minds | InTechOpen - 0 views

www.intechopen.com

module4 open open access creative commons

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  • jurado-navas on 12 Oct 14
     
    InTechOpen is a leading global publisher of Journals and Books within the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine. We are the preferred choice of over 60,000 authors worldwide. Hello everybody, Editorial Intech is a good example of Creative Commons Publication Site: www.intechopen.com They are focused on the scientific world with a great variety of topics including engineering, mathematics, linguistics, software, radio mobile communications, etc. In this sense, let me one of my recent publications there: "A unifying statistical model for atmospheric optical communications", focused on the generation of a new statistical model that unifies in a single closed form expression many of other probability density functions employed in the literature to model the turbulent atmosphere as an optical channel of communications. http://cdn.intechweb.org/pdfs/20889.pdf Best regards, Dr. Antonio Jurado-Navas University of Málaga (Spain)
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  • Ibraghimova Irina on 23 Oct 14
     
    Very useful resource. Recommended it some time ago to colleagues in Ethiopia when they started a new university programme in biomedical engineering and were looking for publications that they can use in their curriculum
  • jurado-navas on 09 Nov 14
     
    Thank you, Ibraghimova.
  • Matt Tibble on 10 Nov 14
     
    I have now only realized that this site is an Open Knowledge site, and I had used it over a year ago to cite some research for a paper on renewable energies. You might be interested in this site for sharing scientific data: http://www.researchgate.net/
cvpido

Adobe is Spying on Users, Collecting Data on Their eBook Libraries - The Digital Reader - 7 views

the-digital-reader.com/...ollecting-data-ebook-libraries

knowledge publishing privacy module7 Adobe

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  • cvpido on 15 Oct 14
     
    Adobe has just given us a graphic demonstration of how not to handle security and privacy issues. A hacker acquaintance of mine has tipped me to a huge security and privacy violation on the part of Adobe. That anonymous acquaintance was examining Adobe's DRm for educational purposes when they noticed that Digital Editions 4, the newest version of ...
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  • cuptlib on 15 Oct 14
     
    Why? For what purpose? Sorry I am clueless. But any spying could have serious consequences.
  • anonymous on 16 Oct 14
     
    Privacy doesn't exist anymore. And yes it does have serious consequences. Any rouge agent can take all the information about you and do whatever they want with it because no one is watching the watchers.
  • ibudule on 17 Oct 14
     
    Something to think about.
  • Dvora Marina Brodsky on 16 Nov 14
     
    The Internet is challenging its users privacy, and privacy carries a different meaning in the Digital Age.
  • tlsohn on 16 Nov 14
     
    It seems internet users might just have to become "comfortable" with software companies now having access to large amounts of information about them…the new normal
Olga Huertas

7 propuestas para mejorar el acceso abierto en América Latina - 3 views

blogs.iadb.org/...ceso-abierto-en-america-latina

modulo 9

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  • Olga Huertas on 04 Nov 14
     
    América Latina avanza con paso firme hacia el Open Access pero todavía quedan desafíos importantes para que esta corriente se consolide. Los gobiernos ya parecen convencidos de que el acceso abierto es el futuro, y así lo demuestran las leyes de acceso abierto que se han aprobado en y .
  • Ignoramus OKMOOC on 16 Nov 14
     
    If Google Translate gets it right, the article suggests 7 ideas to promote open acces in Latin America: - Promote a culture of open access among the young - Invite the new generation of researchers to build a new set of rules governing scholarly communication.- - Manage national access strategies - Promote awareness of the potential of open access - Provide training to scientists regarding intellectual property - Improve and standardize the taxonomy of documents to increase their visibility - Help Open Access journals to gain prestige These will apply to all other regions of the world as well. It shoul be noted that much of it can be done by the indivdual researcher, while some will best be untertaken by universities or libraries or even the state.
azhar_ka

Google's delivery drones newest front in war with Amazon - 0 views

www.cbc.ca/...t-in-war-with-amazon-1.2750104

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  • azhar_ka on 12 Nov 14
     
    Google's secretive research laboratory is trying to build a fleet of drones designed to bypass earthbound traffic so packages can be delivered to people more quickly. The ambitious program announced Thursday escalates Google's technological arms race with rival Amazon.com Inc., which also is experimenting with self-flying vehicles to carry merchandise bought by customers of its online store.
liyanl

Libraries and Open Access - 3 views

Thank you for the information on this :)

open access Module11 libraries non-profit knowledge

started by Becky E on 13 Nov 14 2 follow-ups, last by liyanl on 14 Nov 14
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yitingwang

Is Intellectual property still existing today - 0 views

www.gnu.org/...not-ipr.en.html

Module4 publishing MOOC Knowledge open access

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  • yitingwang on 16 Nov 14
     
    In this society crowded with information, people can freely access to any kind of information. Intellectual property seems to unimportant. Many people even don't aware that they steal intellectual property from others. Is this a definite trend or do we have ways to protect authors?
kamrannaim

Let's Pool Our Medical Data - 0 views

www.ted.com/...ks_let_s_pool_our_medical_data

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  • kamrannaim on 16 Nov 14
     
    In this TED talk, John Wilbanks advances the idea that opening up medical data could leave to a new wave of innovation. With a corpus of open data, semantic search technologies can be employed to determine patterns in data that would take years for scientists to make. Another argument in support of open dada and its potential to accelerate and advance science and innovation
koobredaer

Smithsonian Digital Volunteers - 1 views

transcription.si.edu

crowdsource science digitization participation

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  • koobredaer on 07 Nov 14
     
    Smithsonian museums transcription center--volunteer on projects to create information about newly digitized collections, lots of fascinating stuff to see. "Join us as we create digital records for the United States National Entomological Collection! Bumblebees (the Bombus genus) are social insects that feed on nectar and collect pollen to feed their young, making them very important pollinators!
  • chirospasm22 on 08 Nov 14
     
    This seems like a good way to get kids involved in open activities. These all look like very interesting projects, even if transcription isn't all that entertaining, and it results in an actual real world accomplishment which can be a good way to motivate students who don't see the point of school work because it's "just" for school.
koobredaer

Nature's Notebook | USA National Phenology Network - 1 views

www.usanpn.org/natures_notebook

module3 citizen science phenology

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  • koobredaer on 17 Sep 14
     
    a huge citizen science project in the USA, formalizing the sharing of the traditional (and ancient) practice of Phenology. Phenology is an important way to be connected to the natural world around you--basically observation of seasonal changes. People have been collecting observations for all of human history--this project seeks to help standardize recording of the data so that it can be shared en mass, creating huge and flexible data sets for many different current and future scientific experiments. "Nature's Notebook is a national, online program where amateur and professional naturalists regularly record observations of plants and animals to generate long-term data sets used for scientific discovery and decision-making."
  • koobredaer on 17 Sep 14
     
    oh, and an important thing is that (unlike some cit sci projects) the resulting data is shared freely online, check out some stats and visualizations at https://www.usanpn.org/data
shirley

Toronto at night - 0 views

www.toronto.intercontinental.com/...toronto-hotel-location-top.jpg

Module4 images Toronto

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  • shirley on 10 Nov 14
     
    Photo courtesy of Intercontinental Toronto Yorkville. There is not much restriction in this photo. You can copy or save the photo as you wish. I love to take pictures and during my recent trip to Canada, Toronto particularly, I was actually hoping that I could snap the beauty of this city at night looking at the Toronto Island Park, just the way it's supposed to be at this picture. But the chance was just elusive. It suddenly rained when I was at the park until I get back to the Harbor square. I am documenting all my travels abroad and planning blogging them. I might use this photo should I blog all my travels abroad.
  • melduncan on 18 Nov 14
     
    Very nice photo Shirley!
monde3297

Free internet for africa in cards - 4 views

www.timeslive.co.za/...e-internet-for-africa-on-cards

Knowledge

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  • monde3297 on 17 Nov 14
     
    Free internet for Africa
  • nthabi on 17 Nov 14
     
    The sooner Africa gets the internet the better. The cost of internet is too high and out of reach for many people. Free internet will facilitate access to information. I hope this will reach rural areas and maginalised communities.
  • pad123 on 17 Nov 14
     
    yes, it is very good to get free internet for Africa so that knowledge dissipation happens and open knowledge can will be useful to all of them and also benefit from that OK. IT infrastructure and internet is required to benefit from open accessible open knowledge.
embioptera

Citizen Science: Information, Technology and People - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch

citizen science Module3

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  • embioptera on 18 Nov 14
     
    Interesting lecture on citizen science given at UBC. Professor Jennifer Preece gives several interesting examples of recent citizen science projects, and the research being done on citizen science. She also presents some of the roles computer scientists and librarians can have in citizen science projects.
mbittman

Will paper books exist in the future? Yes, but they'll look different. - 6 views

www.slate.com/...t_they_ll_look_different_.html

Publishing Books Digital

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  • mbittman on 12 Nov 14
     
    The change has come more slowly to books than it came to music or to business correspondence, but by now it feels inevitable. The digital era is upon us. The Twilights and Freedoms of 2025 will be consumed primarily as e-books. In many ways, this is good news. Books will...
  • serrarouafae on 13 Nov 14
     
    when I take a book in my hands, I always start with smelling paper (old or new), can we do the same thing with technology?
  • kristykim on 14 Nov 14
     
    I do like physical book in my hand, but I find e-books more convenient either when I am writing my research paper or I want to read certain book right away. I heard that more and more universities are supporting e-book system, and getting rid of physical textbooks due to costs and other reasons. A lot more e-books will become useful in the future. I think paper books will exist, but it will be rare in the future.
Kevin Stranack

Are universities teaching the skills needed in a knowledge-based economy? - 14 views

www.tonybates.ca/...d-in-a-knowledge-based-economy

module2 higher education knowledge skills

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  • Kevin Stranack on 29 Jun 14
     
    Provides a list of important skills and how those skills are embedded within the curriculum.
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  • Raúl Marcó del Pont on 09 Sep 14
     
    Encontré un post relacionado con las Alfabetizaciones digitales y competencias fundamentales en http://futurosdellibro.com/alfabetizaciones-digitales-y-competencias-fundamentales/ Tal vez interese: El pasado 5 de marzo los expertos de UNESCO dedicados a la alfabetización mediática y digital, en reunión preparatoria de la siguiente World Summit of Information Societies, rubricaron lo que es una evidencia ya incontrovertible: que la alfabetización mediática e informacional (MIL. Media and information literacy) ocupa un lugar central en el mapa escolar de competencias del siglo XXI. Esto no es nada esencialmente nuevo: Viviane Reding, la hoy Vicepresidenta de la Comisión Europea y ex-comisaria de Información entre los años 2004-2009, declaraba en el año 2006: "Hoy, la alfabetización mediática es tan central para el desarrollo de una ciudadanía plena y activa como la alfabetización tradicional lo fue al inicio del siglo XIX". Y añadía: "también es fundamental para entrar en el nuevo mundo de la banda ancha de contenidos, disponibles en todas partes y en cualquier momento". De acuerdo con el European Charter for Media Literacy podríamos distinguir siete áreas de competencias que, de una u otra forma, deberían pasar a formar parte de todo currículum orientado a su adquisición: Usar adecuadamente las tecnologías mediáticas para acceder, conservar, recuperar y compartir contenidos que satisfagan las necesidades e intereses individuales y colectivos. Tener competencias de acceso e información de la gran diversidad de alternativas respecto a los tipos de medios que existen, así como a los contenidos provenientes de distintas fuentes culturales e institucionales. Comprender cómo y porqué se producen los contenidos mediáticos. Analizar de forma crítica las técnicas, lenguajes y códigos empleados por los medios y los mensajes que transmiten. Usar los medios creativamente para expresar y comunicar ideas, información
  • Ad Huikeshoven on 09 Sep 14
     
    Thank you Kevin Stranack for sharing. Tony Bates ends with five questions: 1. Have I covered the main skills needed in a knowledge-based society? What have I missed? 2. Do you agree that these are important skills? If so, should universities explicitly try to develop them? 3. What are you or your university doing (if anything) to ensure such skills are taught, and taught well? 4. What roles if any do you think technology, and in particular online learning, can play in helping to develop such skills? 5. Any other comments on this topic - My answers: 1. Frustration tolerance and keeping a balance between work and private life is a necessary skill 2, The skill set mentioned is important, but more likely trained in college than in university 3. I do have a personal coach and a counseler, and I'm enrolled in #OKMOOC 4. The activities required in every module of #OKMOOC ask to reach out, connect, build relationships, Have you answered the feedback questions?
  • hreodbeorht on 13 Oct 14
     
    This question is really the elephant in the room in a lot of university programs, especially in the humanities. I myself was a doctoral student in the humanities before leaving because, as I eventually learned, there were essentially no employment opportunities and my skillset in today's economy was sorely lacking. But the old mantra that "we teach critical thinking" is become a worn excuse. Do we really need four years to teach people the skills to survive "out there"? How much of our specialized knowledge will really be useful outside of the academy? These are questions we just don't have the answer to, and I'm not sure there are many people willing to ask them. But more to the point, I didn't see anything in this link about the changing ways that millennials (I promise that I hate the term as much as anyone, but it's a useful one) are engaging with information, and how that is changing how they actually think. There have been arguments made that digital natives (again, a pretty terrible term) think about and process information in very different ways that have serious implications for contextualization and long-term research. I'm not saying that universities don't teach these things in their own ways, but it's an important issue that needs addressing. I know that the link talks about the important of knowledge management, but there's a huge difference between simply knowing how and when to access information and quite another to properly contextualize its place in a larger hierarchy (or web) of knowledge. I would argue *that* skill is the one that universities are best poised to provide, and maybe why we keep hearing talk about how undergraduate degrees are the new highschool diplomas.
Kim Baker

Welcome to the Peeragogy Handbook! - 0 views

peeragogy.org

mdoule12 Peeragogy Student publishing

shared by Kim Baker on 19 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • Kim Baker on 19 Nov 14
     
    "Peeragogy is a collection of techniques for collaborative learning and collaborative work. By learning how to "work smart" together, we hope to leave the world in a better state than it was when we arrived. Indeed, humans have always learned from each other. But for a long time - until the advent of the Web and widespread access to digital media - schools have had an effective monopoly on the business of learning. Now, with access to open educational resources and free or inexpensive communication platforms, groups of people can learn together outside as well as inside formal institutions. All of this prompted us to reconsider the meaning of "peer learning."- A great tool for student publishers to use.
Kevin Stranack

Self-directed learning - a critique - 9 views

Great post to help us balance the conversation, Colin. As you probably noticed, I'm one of the those evangelists for self-determined learning, but I do respect the point. I'd argue that traditional...

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started by Colin Hynson on 10 Sep 14 1 follow-up, last by Kevin Stranack on 10 Sep 14
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