How to upgrade democracy for the Internet era - 0 views
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bsheman on 18 Nov 14An amazing discussion about introducing and implementing open democracy.
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hat Is Open Source & Why Do I Feel So Guilty? - 0 views
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An amazing introduction to Open Source.
Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources | for Open Educational Reso... - 6 views
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Community Colleges for Open Education Resources I chose this resource since I work at a community college and The mission is expanding access to education by promoting awareness and adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER). Over 250 colleges have joined the consortium and many more participate in our activities and use resources posted here. The Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER)is a joint effort by individual community colleges, regional and statewide consortia, the Open Courseware Consortium, the American Association for Community Colleges, the League for Innovation in the Community Colleges, and many other educational partners to develop and use open educational resources, open textbooks, and open courseware to expand access to higher education and improve teaching and learning. - ...1 more comment...
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Open education information and group resources
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Open education information and group resources
MOOCs: "Oportunidades y Desafíos para las Bibliotecas" - 1 views
shared by Patricia Gomez de Nieto on 07 Sep 14
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¿cómo pueden las bibliotecas aprovechar el potencial de los MOOCs para atender a sus comunidades? en este artículo encontraran un enfoque diferente en relación a los Moocs, tendran una visión general de los mismos, su impacto en la profesión y las oportunidades que pueden ofrecer a las bibliotecas.
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Muchas gracias, es de utilidad para la biblioteca dónde trabajo
Unhangout - 2 views
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Suggested in the Google+ community (Fabrizo & others), this is an excellent platform for open online collaboration and learning.
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Suggested in the Google+ community (Fabrizo & others), this is an excellent platform for open online collaboration and learning.
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Es cierto es una excelente plataforma que utilizo para informarme acerca de mi carrera y colaborar con colegas
Open educational resources and the role of university - 0 views
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This article gives opinion that university is playing an important role that will not be replaced by the open educational opinion, which I also agreed. Instead of considering OER as a threat to university, the article argues that "OER can help institutions provide higher education to rapidly increasing numbers of students and lifelong learners".
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Thank you for sharing the article Ming Tang. I think you make a great point about OER and the university working together as opposed to a "war of the roses" type scenario where a married couple refuses to work together. As the article mentioned the university is the one that gives the diploma and is the one that deals with accreditation inspections, etc. OER to me would make a nice complement on the arms of any university. Another good article along the same lines can be found at http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/impact-globalization-and-future-university. -
Thank you Melduncan2!
Are universities teaching the skills needed in a knowledge-based economy? - 14 views
shared by Kevin Stranack on 29 Jun 14
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Philip Sidaway, Ad Huikeshoven, aleksandraxhamo, victorialam, hreodbeorht, siyuwang, and hardikjjoshi liked it
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Provides a list of important skills and how those skills are embedded within the curriculum.
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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? -
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.
open access and compensation for content creators - 5 views
Isn't it a privilege to do the work? those who freely share their work will finaly succed over those who want to Combine their work with personal power. Remember Popper saying about scientists they...
started by c maggard on 02 Oct 14
1 follow-up, last by lenjomaydresden on 20 Nov 14
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Open Education's Publicity Problem - 1 views
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The different approach needed to market traditional educational resources and OER
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Thank you for sharing. The article highlight a real-life problem. I am sure in my country many faculty members and librarians of higher educational establishment are not aware of OER and therefore they prefer safe and sure textbooks. Librarians should be first to explore, understand and market this type of resources. At the same time time may be needed in order to change educational policy and choice of textbooks.
Facebook in the library: enhancing services and engaging users (ALA TechSource) - 4 views
It is not a topic I know, but: http://firstmonday.org/article/view/2155/2060 http://firstmonday.org/article/view/2291/2070 https://files.nyu.edu/dl80/public/chap11.doc regards
What's in store for YOUR digital future? - 9 views
shared by Julia Echeverría on 17 Oct 14
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ibudule, tlsohn, yolitab, Fernando Carraro, Leopoldo Basurto, noveltynotion, rebeccakah, koobredaer, educa21, and Rosa Munoz-Luna liked it
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300,000+ contributors, 2 years of collaboration, 3 key recommendations. Check out Our Digital Future: a crowdsourced report on sharing and collaborating in the 21st century.
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Muy buena publicación, Julia, con una gran propuesta visual y todo. Los grandes editores aumentan los precios y la comunidad virtual busca la manera de superar ese obstáculo puesto al conocimiento.
Techonomy Live - 0 views
All I wanted to share a link for TE14, this is a live techonomy event that started 7pm tonight Eastern Standard Time (EST) in the U.S. and runs through Tuesday, November 11th at 3pm.http://new.live...
Research and Reference Services: Frequently Asked Questions - 0 views
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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...."
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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.
South African initiative Siyavula - 3 views
May Siyavula go from strength to strength. May they gain much support for the fantastic work they're doing to improve education and the lives of South African (and other) youth.
Project MUSE - Helping People to Manage and Share Their Digital Information: A Role for... - 1 views
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This article is an interesting take on how public libraries can participate in empowering patrons to develop a personal information management strategy. This can in turn strengthen a sense of community in the digital realm and support the development of community repositories.
Find OER | Open Professionals Education Network - 5 views
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Very good collection of useful sites + instructions how to find Creative Commons licensed items
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Quite interesting guide on how to find relevant OER of different types and natures. «Reusing existing Open Educational Resources (OER) can save significant time and effort. The OPEN partners recommend TAACCCT grantees invest up-front time finding OER to reuse rather than starting development of new educational resources right away. A significant benefit of OER is that they provide source material to build your development efforts around.» Ricardo twitter: @ricbruno71
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Really helpful go-to collection of links with explanations for each, and more than just image references (videos, sounds, etc). Great resource, thanks for sharing.
Technology for multi-institution co-operation: aggregating, sharing and collaboration |... - 3 views
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Libraries are under threat from large commercial aggregators who provide services which are in many cases challenging the role of libraries. Information technology is also, however, an enabler for valuable collaboration between libraries to provide their own information-rich resources. Libraries can also collaborate in providing services, software and communities. Software communities supporting libraries (including open source) Technology projects for libraries featuring multi-institution collaboration The role of the library in increasing service reach through institutional collaboration (eg multi-institution MOOCS) Use of aggregation with distributed services to form rich data services
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.
started by Raúl Marcó del Pont on 10 Sep 14
7 follow-ups, last by liyanl on 06 Oct 14
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Technology leaves teens speechless - USATODAY.com - 1 views
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In this article, Barker believes that technology has somehow become harmful to communicate in person among teenagers. Teens prefer to write to each other such as pick up their phones to ping each other, communicating by texting though instant messaging and social networking sites like Facebook, Twtter rather than talking to each other in person. Thus this has given out a general that is technology has become a problem in communication since cell phone has become widely used in society. Therefore, within the development in cell phone technology, smartphone was invented, which a mobile phone is built on a mobile computing platform that not only a communication tool to make phone call or text message but also allows people to go on internet or play game for their pastime. Hence this with the development for technology, people spends more time on their smartphones rather than having interaction between people which has become an issue in our life. By reading this article, it leads my thought to online education. Being honest, I enjoy the in person discussion rather than online written discussion however digital platform has provided a convenient way for people to share their ideas. However this article did raised a good question, technology makes everything easier for people but does it somehow hurt the communication among people?
Science journal Nature to make archives available online - 2 views
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"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."
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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.
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