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christofhar

Electronic publishing - 0 views

www2.marilia.unesp.br/...2442

Module9

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  • christofhar on 18 Nov 14
     
    Publishing has transited from traditional to Electronic format making information resources available to users without much subscription. E-publishing is engendered by the introduction of information and communication technology (ICT), this development has brought about increase in the number of scholarly communication in circulation. The awareness and rate of e-publishing differs among faculties, it based on this that this study was carried out to survey the situation of e-publishing and open access of librarians in three federal universities in Southern Nigeria, five research questions were formulated to guide the study. The methodology adopted is descriptive survey, questionnaire was given to a total population of 64 librarians consisting of librarians from the institutions understudy, the data collected from the study shows that though librarians are aware of e-publishing but they have not being publishing as should have been expected in University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) out of the 95% that aware of electronic publishing only 30% have published there articles electronically, in University of Lagos (UNILAG) 100% indicated that they have published electronically while in University of Benin (UNIBEN) 45.4% percent indicated yes while 54.5% said they have not published their articles electronically. On availability of open access it was discovered that they have access as a total of 84% from UNN responded Yes, UNILAG 100% said Yes while in UNIBEN 90.9%. The following problems based on their scoring militating against e-publishing and open access in Nigeria. Inadequate power supply; inadequate computer terminals; inadequate funding for subscription payment.
koobredaer

Open standard, Mozilla news site about Open stuff - 0 views

openstandard.mozilla.org

publishing cc mozilla news

shared by koobredaer on 21 Oct 14 - No Cached
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  • koobredaer on 21 Oct 14
     
    published by Mozilla, covers all sorts of open news. Interesting feature: unlike most news sites the content is actually CC-by-sa. "The Open Standard provides online news coverage of open, transparent, and collaborative systems at work in technology and our daily lives. Our purpose is to showcase the positive global impact of these systems and inspire more people to seek out, support and adopt open principles of accessibility, participation and experimentation. The Open Standard is published by Mozilla, a global community of technologists, thinkers and builders working together to promote openness, innovation and opportunity online. We will disclose and be transparent if we take a position on or promote the products and services of Mozilla or a partner company."
  • koobredaer on 21 Oct 14
     
    for example, check out this article about companies collecting data on school kids, https://openstandard.mozilla.org/whos-collecting-kids-personal-data-lots-of-people/
  • c maggard on 17 Nov 14
     
    That is scary...
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

shared by Kevin Stranack on 29 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • 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.
Sophie Lafayette

Funzi - 'Skills to Build Your Dreams' - 3 views

Funzi is a learning app that is free to all to use. The content of app is written by experts in their field and will cover many topics including key business & life skills. The app will be availabl...

Module2 students education Knowledge

started by Sophie Lafayette on 13 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
neviob

D - 0 views

groups.diigo.com/...okmooc

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  • neviob on 13 Dec 14
     
    The directory of open access journal  http://doaj.org I found out in this course is a precious mine of hight quality research works and I found some very useful articles in this library
hreodbeorht

Tell Everyone by Alfred Hermida - 2 views

www.telleveryone.ca

sharing media Twitter social journalism content creators

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  • hreodbeorht on 03 Dec 14
     
    This recently published book, by a University of British Columbia journalism professor named Alfred Hermida, questions how the new culture of sharing and collaboration-and the pace of change that sharing enables-changes our lives. It's particularly interesting for us because it doesn't back away from the challenges that open access poses for us: how does being both creator and consumer change us? How does blurring the lines between these two change the way we think about the balance between copyright and the public good? Hermida doesn't tackle these last questions directly, but he provides a useful lens for thinking about our changing roles and how open knowledge and sharing need to reflect that. Considering the book's focus on sharing, it's somewhat ironic that it's not open access, but I highly recommend checking it out. It's received significant attention in the Canadian press and is exactly the kind of mainstream attention that can get conversations about open access started.
  • villamater on 10 Dec 14
     
    Not everything can be shared. Aside from the 14 reasons what makes people share knowledge is because they are trust each one with the knowledge that they will share will be beneficial to the receiver of the knowledge or learning. Knowledge is power when shared.
dheer121

Bulk SMS Service provider in Ahmedabad - 0 views

www.dheersoftwaresolutions.com/Bulk-sms-service-ahmedabad.php

bulk sms service ahmedabad provider in

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  • dheer121 on 31 Mar 17
     
    Gujarat's leading Bulk SMS Service Provider Company based in Ahmedabad, providing complete Bulk SMS services that devour the competition. Check us out and grow your business.
lesley59

What are MOOCs doing to the Open Education? - 1 views

openaccess.athabascau.ca/events.php

open access module1 post-secondary education

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  • lesley59 on 03 Sep 14
     
    George Siemens, President of the Society for Learning Analytics Research, takes a more jaundiced view of MOOCS. While acknowledging the benefits he points out some of the more negative impacts, particularly focusing on the concept of 'opennesss'
salma1504

The history of the University Press - 0 views

the university presses in the United States were by and large founded specifically for the publication of scholarship; in this sense, as Thompson points out, "they were generally seen as an integra...

module5

started by salma1504 on 01 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
Raúl Marcó del Pont

¿Está muerto el libro? Is the book dead? - 3 views

isthebookdead.com

module5 publishing

shared by Raúl Marcó del Pont on 29 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Raúl Marcó del Pont on 29 Sep 14
     
    A complex question; a simple answer
  • jesseharris on 30 Sep 14
     
    An interesting use of the medium to poke fun at the medium. Thanks for sharing - I also tweeted this link out. How meta, but also what an important reminder that the book is still a central part to knowledge sharing.
  • chacunin on 30 Sep 14
     
    really nice
eglemarija

Public Lab: a way to become a DIY scientist! - 2 views

publiclab.org

open access creativecommons module3 open

shared by eglemarija on 30 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • eglemarija on 30 Sep 14
     
    The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science is an open community offering countless ideas, DIY instruction and kits for carrying out science projects from your own kitchen (literally). Even better - you can become a part of a collaborative community, which shares ideas & tips, and all data collections are available under CC!
  • Balthas Seibold on 01 Oct 14
     
    I particularly like the open source approach of the Public Lab, which ensures a collaborative building of creative solutions, which are then available under fair and open terms. Thanks for sharing the resource. Balthas
Ad Huikeshoven

Human versus Monkey - 3 views

www.youtube.com/watch

open knowledge okmooc mooc skills

shared by Ad Huikeshoven on 16 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Ad Huikeshoven on 16 Sep 14
     
    Do we teach the right skills in school? Can you get the peanut out of the tube?
Kim Baker

BIODIVERSITY AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IMPLICATIONS FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF SOU... - 1 views

www.traditionalhealth.org.za/...ectual_property_rights_02.html

module5 biopiracy intellectual property

shared by Kim Baker on 03 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • Kim Baker on 03 Oct 14
     
    Traditional Healers Organization For Africa: " Biopiracy and Indigenous Traditional Medicine Knowledge The blatant plunder of indigenous knowledge and genetic resources in South Africa continues unhindered and without State monitoring. Since 1997, We have been monitoring private and public enterprises (or their intermediaries) who are actively collecting, sampling and acquiring traditional knowledge for the development of pharmaceutical products. What concerns us is that international organizations are entering South Africa to carry out this research. Not even the World Health Organization are free of scrutiny in this regard. "Biopiracy" refers to the use of intellectual property laws (patents, plant breeders' rights) to gain exclusive monopoly control over genetic resources that are based on the knowledge and innovation of indigenous peoples. Biopiracy and bioprospecting don't just happen in the field ; biopiracy is even more likely to take place in the laboratories of industry and academia, and in patent offices in the cities not even in South Africa."
Kim Baker

The P2P mode of production - 2 views

lasindias.com/the-p2p-mode-of-production

module4 P2P open access distributed production

shared by Kim Baker on 26 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Kim Baker on 26 Sep 14
     
    "The current crisis, the deepest and longest in the history of capitalism, has opened a debate around the world about what appears, more clearly with each passing day, to be the simultaneous destruction of the two principal institutions of social and economic life: the State and the market. Never in living memory has the economic system been so universally questioned. On the other hand, never before have technical capacities been so powerful, and, more importantly, so accessible to people and small organizations. In fact, never before have so many small businesses taken part in the world market. Nearly free [gratis] P2P communication technologies let them create the largest commercial networks in history. The emergence of free software (which, by itself, represents the largest-ever transfer of value to the economic periphery) empowered them with unexpected independence. Millions of small businesses around the world, especially in Asia, were able to coordinate among themselves this way and hone their products just as new markets were opening up to them. It's "globalization of the small." It's not a marginal phenomenon: never before have so many people around the world gotten out of poverty."
colibri_ubc

Even governments have a hard time figuring out copyright laws... - 2 views

www.youtube.com/watch

intellectual property copyright fair use

shared by colibri_ubc on 26 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • colibri_ubc on 26 Sep 14
     
    A humorous segment on the John Oliver show that critiques the NZ government's inability to adhere to copyright laws for their own campaign
camilalondonoa

Made with code - 6 views

Recently my dad show me a new project of google in which they were encouraging girls to start coding and it was really interesting to find out how women all around the world have use programming to...

open access Module2 mooc open knowledge publishing coding

started by camilalondonoa on 17 Sep 14 no follow-up yet
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arnapier

The learning environment is changing faster than we think - 18 views

Hi all! My name is Ashton and I'm a Graduate Assistant for your MOOC course. I really enjoyed this video and find the discussion you are having very relevant and interesting. I love Ted Talks and h...

Module1 open access

started by Marina Joubert on 09 Sep 14 4 follow-ups, last by arnapier on 15 Sep 14
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adesimine

Jay Z Wants Lawsuit Over Alleged One-Syllable Sample Run Out of Town (Billboard Biz) - 1 views

www.billboard.com/...er-alleged-one-syllable-sample

open module4 copyright

shared by adesimine on 23 Sep 14 - No Cached
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  • adesimine on 23 Sep 14
     
    Here's an example of (attempted) copyright law misuse, plus a snapshot of how ludicrous the media landscape has become in regards to copyright law.
  • brianmihov on 27 Sep 14
     
    Thanks for posting! That is quite ridiculous, to sue over one syllable..
Kevin Stranack

The Public Library as a Community Hub for Connected Learning - 9 views

library.ifla.org/...167-nygren-en.pdf

module2 public libraries connected learning

shared by Kevin Stranack on 18 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Kevin Stranack on 18 Sep 14
     
    "This paper provides a brief overview of the ideas and principles underlying the connected learning movement, highlighting examples of how libraries are boosting 21st century learning and promoting community development by partnering with a range of organisations and individuals to incorporate connected opportunities into their programmes"
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  • Raúl Marcó del Pont on 18 Sep 14
     
    Robert Darnton about the centrality of public libraries (in the distant 2008): Meanwhile, I say: shore up the library. Stock it with printed matter. Reinforce its reading rooms. But don't think of it as a warehouse or a museum. While dispensing books, most research libraries operate as nerve centers for transmitting electronic impulses. They acquire data sets, maintain digital repositories, provide access to e-journals, and orchestrate information systems that reach deep into laboratories as well as studies. Many of them are sharing their intellectual wealth with the rest of the world by permitting Google to digitize their printed collections. Therefore, I also say: long live Google, but don't count on it living long enough to replace that venerable building with the Corinthian columns. As a citadel of learning and as a platform for adventure on the Internet, the research library still deserves to stand at the center of the campus, preserving the past and accumulating energy for the future. Source: The Research Library in the Digital Age. Available: http://hul.harvard.edu/publications/Darnton_ResearchLibraryDigitalAge.pdf
  • Leticia Lafuente López on 19 Sep 14
     
    Thank you very much Kevin for this report. For me has been very ilustrative; my last experience with internet connection, collaboration and public libraries in Spain was that the person in charge of the lecture hall told me I was not allowed to plug the mobile phone charger in (as I was running out of battery with my smart phone), but that I could use the library desk computers (only for 30 minutes per day for free...) I was really disgusted and for me it is great to hear that in other countries these initiatives are taking place. Thanks!
  • aleksandraxhamo on 20 Sep 14
     
    Thanks Kevin for sharing this.
  • Raúl Marcó del Pont on 20 Sep 14
     
    El lado oscuro de las bibliotecas: "¿Quieren leer? Pues a pagar" Es un delirio: cuando tomemos prestado un libro de una biblioteca será preciso pagar un canon http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2014/08/27/babelia/1409137321_870906.html
drchavezreyes

The Curious Case of Internet Privacy | MIT Technology Review - 1 views

www.technologyreview.com/...rious-case-of-internet-privacy

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  • drchavezreyes on 03 Sep 14
     
    Private space: Author Cory Doctorow in his study. Here's a story you've heard about the Internet: we trade our privacy for services. The idea is that your private information is less valuable to you than it is to the firms that siphon it out of your browser as you navigate the Web.
  • drchavezreyes on 03 Sep 14
     
    Hi I'm Christina Chavez-Reyes. The account listed is a work account. I found this piece insightful about the trade-offs to privacy for using internet services. The author frames the issue as a "war" between "the rebels and the empire" to maximize the value of our privacy. We are often led to believe consumers (the rebels) are powerless against internet corporations (the empire); however, the author suggests a solution to empower consumers that is embedded in the very open source culture which created the issue. It demonstrates the potent innovation that open source culture possesses over other models of production that are explained in course videos.
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