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nivinsharawi

Fragmented Publishing: The Implications of Self-Publishing - 2 views

www.niso.org/...fragmented

module3 self-publishing ebooks libraries

shared by nivinsharawi on 27 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Kevin Stranack on 27 Jun 14
     
    Unfortunately, the webinar itself is not free, but the slides are here. In particular, Mark Coker of Smashwords provides a good overview of the trends and future for self-publishing.
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  • Leticia Lafuente López on 04 Oct 14
  • nivinsharawi on 20 Nov 14
     
    it is useful powerpoint thanks
  • nivinsharawi on 20 Nov 14
     
    read presentation
Ibraghimova Irina

TrendMD - 1 views

"TrendMD, an online tool that gives readers a way to find content relevant to their interests, while giving publishers, institutions, industry and authors the ability to target their audience. Tre...

module10 filter

started by Ibraghimova Irina on 11 Nov 14 no follow-up yet
rafopen

Research and Reference Services: Frequently Asked Questions - 0 views

www.loc.gov/res-faq.html

Knowledge open access

shared by rafopen on 31 Oct 14 - No Cached
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  • rafopen on 31 Oct 14
     
    Just thought I'd share a Frequently Asked Question from the Library of Congress site. The answer highlights the antithesis of open access. One would think that the LOC would lead open access given that our tax dollars fund it and democracy requires an informed citizenry. What online databases and indexes does the Library make available to researchers on site? The Library subscribes to a large number of online subscription databases which offer indexes to journals, information on library holdings, and other resources in a wide range of subject areas. Workstations for searching these services are available in all of the Library's reading rooms. The Library also subscribes to a number of Internet-based databases and full-text journal services, which are searchable on any of the public Internet workstations in the Library's reading rooms. Patrons onsite using their personal laptops or other wireless-enabled devices to connect to the Library's wireless network are also able to access these services. The Library does not offer access to these services off-site, but they are widely available at public and academic libraries...."
  • ibudule on 01 Nov 14
     
    The same situation with all "large number of online subscription databases of indexes and full-texts" only in the libraries in many countries and many libraries, not only LOC.
liyanl

Using Twitter in university research, teaching, and impact activities - 21 views

I have a feeling like discussing in real person is still more efficient compare to online however social media like twitter do provide a convenient online platform for information sharing.

Module2 social media Twitter

started by Raúl Marcó del Pont on 10 Sep 14 7 follow-ups, last by liyanl on 06 Oct 14
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jurado-navas

JASON Learning | EDUCATION THROUGH EXPLORATION - 0 views

www.jason.org

Module 12 exploration open

shared by jurado-navas on 03 Dec 14 - Cached
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  • jurado-navas on 03 Dec 14
     
    We embed exciting STEM professionals and cutting-edge research into award-winning, standards-aligned in and out-of-school curricula. Live webcasts connect students with inspirational STEM role models. Student materials include reading selections with read-to-me functionality, inquiry-based labs, videos, and online games.
  • jurado-navas on 03 Dec 14
     
    Mediante un tratamiento trans e interdisciplinar, los estudiantes aprenden ciencias experimentales, matemáticas, ciencias sociales y lenguaje en proyectos conjuntos de experimentacción e investigación, Sería deseable que en el futuro pueda abrirse en código abierto para que pueda trabajarse en todo tipo de tabletas y dispositivos digitales. De todas formas, es un proyecto muy otente para facilitar el aprendizaje más significativo, atractivo y relevante.
hreodbeorht

Science journal Nature to make archives available online - 2 views

www.theguardian.com/...nature-archives-free

open access scholarly publishing journals science

shared by hreodbeorht on 03 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • hreodbeorht on 03 Dec 14
     
    "The science journal Nature will make its archive of papers, dating back to 1869, free by way of read-only links available to subscribers and major news outlets. Under the new system, planned as a one-year trial, subscribers such as universities and researchers will be able to share a link to a read-only version of a Nature paper with anyone."
  • Ken Cherven on 03 Dec 14
     
    This is a great idea - hope to see more follow this model. Ideally, it would be nice to see it open a bit further (to lay persons), but this is a positive move.
gabrielromitelli

James Boyle - Public Domain: enclosing the commons of the mind - 0 views

I am quite sure that anyone who is interested in new possibilities for the way we deal with knowledge must have already read James Boyle. He is a great professor of Law at the Duke University and h...

open knowledge intellectual property new possibilities

started by gabrielromitelli on 04 Dec 14 no follow-up yet
Kim Baker

Free Culture - Lawrence Lessig - 6 views

www.free-culture.cc/freecontent

module4 free culture creative commons intellectual property patents public domain

shared by Kim Baker on 25 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Kim Baker on 25 Sep 14
     
    FREE CULTURE is available for free under a Creative Commons license. You may redistribute, copy, or otherwise reuse/remix this book provided that you do so for non-commercial purposes and credit Professor Lessig. " America needs a national conversation about the way in which so-called 'intellectual property rights' have come to dominate the rights of scholars, researchers, and everyday citizens. A copyright cartel, bidding for absolute control over digital worlds, music, and movies, now has a veto over technological innovation and has halted most contributions to the public domain from which so many have benefited. The patent system has spun out of control, giving enormous power to entrenched interests, and even trademarks are being misused. Lawrence Lessig's latest book is essential reading for anyone who want to join this conversation. He explains how technology and the law are robbing us of the public domain; but for all his educated pessimism, Professor Lessig offers some solutions, too, because he recognizes that technology can be the catalyst for freedom. If you care about the future of innovation, read this book." -- Dan Gillmor, author of MAKING THE NEWS, an upcoming book on the collision of media and technology
  • Ad Huikeshoven on 06 Oct 14
     
    Hi Kim, Thanks for sharing this great work by Lawrence Lessig published ten years ago.
Kevin Stranack

Are Courses Outdated? MIT Considers Offering 'Modules' Instead - Wired Campus - Blogs -... - 3 views

chronicle.com/...54257

module7 open education courses

shared by Kevin Stranack on 06 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • Kevin Stranack on 06 Aug 14
     
    "People now buy songs, not albums. They read articles, not newspapers. So why not mix and match learning "modules" rather than lock into 12-week university courses?"
  • Paul Prinsloo on 03 Sep 14
     
    @Kevin - thanks for sharing. I really share many of the sentiments of this article - but the modularisation of the curriculum also raise some interesting and possibly disturbing points. For example, our current diploma/degree structures are based on the premise that the final outcomes of a diploma or a degree is the result, inter alia, of the unique combination of a number of different courses/modules which, together, allow students to provide evidence of competency in all of the outcomes. While I sincerely think there is a place for just-in-time learning and short courses, and secondly, that the notion of a four-year degree may be outdated - I am wondering about the notion of the curriculum as journey.
  • kristykim on 17 Oct 14
     
    Thank you sharing this! I think this is new and innovative idea. I wouldn't mind trying this kind of system at my school.
hardikjjoshi

Open Access Publishing Fees - How it works. - 12 views

Hi Becky E, thanks for sharing... I hope in future there wont be any publishing charges...

open access publishing module6

started by Becky E on 09 Oct 14 3 follow-ups, last by hardikjjoshi on 11 Oct 14
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marielo

Try PDF annotation - Active Reading: The Art of Annotation - 0 views

diigo.com/052t8e

Module 1 Introduction

shared by marielo on 01 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • marielo on 01 Oct 14
     
    Awareness will make a difference since privacy is the price we pay for freedom.
rebeccakah

The Stationers' Company and Copyright: a brief introduction - 1 views

copyright-debate.co.uk/?p=184

module4 copyright history

shared by rebeccakah on 22 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • rebeccakah on 22 Sep 14
     
    After reading a brief history of copyright law after the advent of the printing press, it is easy to see that copyright has always been an evolving concept. With the internet we again find ourselves needing to redefine what copyright means and who its serving. The Stationers' Company era of copyright offered no protections to the author of the work, and now we offer a lot of protections to the author of the work - and the technologies we use to access works of knowledge and art are unable to do so with the current laws. I appreciate the videos in the current module that detailed the advances some countries are making in evolving copyright law to be more flexible and keep the user in mind.
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
rlamim

Brazilian writer wrote a book live on the web, back to 2000. - 1 views

cultura.estadao.com.br/...do-livro-ao-vivo,20000522p2335

module2 mooc book

shared by rlamim on 13 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • rlamim on 13 Sep 14
     
    Mario Prata, a Brazilian writer, did an unexpected thing back to 2000. While he was writing a book, internet users watched alive. It was very cool for that time. I remember this while I was reading tihs course article: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/04/08/the-future-of-the-book-is-the-future-of-soc
Gerald Louw

Module 5 Review of Intellectual Property - 6 views

http://blogs.nature.com/news/2013/02/us-white-house-announces-open-access-policy.html The speaker in the video talk about one of the mail stones that the open access group has riches during 2013 in...

open access publishing

started by Gerald Louw on 03 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
moonlove

http://www.indymedia.org/en/ - 1 views

I think this site should be in the core reading, about indymedia

MOOC module3 indymedia and citizen journalism

started by moonlove on 03 Sep 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."
Gerald Louw

Open Access explained - 0 views

The video explained the term open access in easy to understand terms. It is clear that digitization and the price increase played a major role in the open access movement. Open Access is just like ...

module 6 open access

started by Gerald Louw on 06 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
Teresa Belkow

Pedestrian Lawyer - Know Your Rights - 2 views

www.youtube.com/watch

privacy publishing knowledge rights authority legitimacy informality Module1

shared by Teresa Belkow on 12 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Teresa Belkow on 12 Sep 14
     
    Have you ever been in a similar situation? It´s important to know your rights on the street as well as on the internet, does anyone know a good resource for reading about what our rights are on the internet? Besides that, does the internet give us more freedom or does it take it away by monitoring us and making our personal profiles into data? I think that was the transcending question and dilemma which the first module presented, so do we accept the internet as an oxymoron, if not what is happening in the world inregards to being able to opt out from being monitored and used as a statistic and still enjoy the benefits of internet.
Megan H

Four Skills to Teach Students In the First Five Days of School - 6 views

blogs.kqed.org/...e-days-of-school-alan-november

Module1 open access privacy digitalliteracy globalcitizen

shared by Megan H on 09 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Megan H on 09 Sep 14
     
    As I participate in, and contribute to, the MOOC for Changing the Global Course for Learning, I will inevitably tie the readings / work / ideas back to education at the K12 level. As noted, "Before the internet there were two important things to teach: content and skills, like writing," November said. "Now there's a third skill which is to build out your network to the world."
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