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Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I have also used Ubuntu and liked it very much.Here is an interesting article indicating 10 reasons to choose Ubuntu 12.10 over Windows 8 http://www.pcworld.com/a...

started by danielsan9 on 13 Sep 14 3 follow-ups, last by maxmhm77 on 15 Sep 14

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a. An unfortunate phenomenon is emerging in scholarly publishing: the artificial or contrived peer review. Ferguson, et al., report the emerging issue affecting several peer review systems used by ...

peer-review scholarly publishing module9

started by Alexandra Finch on 28 Nov 14 1 follow-up, last by Alexandra Finch on 28 Nov 14

Totally agree with the term "21st century" :)

module2

started by ricbruno on 30 Sep 14 1 follow-up, last by chacunin on 01 Oct 14

The spectacular rise late last year in the price of bitcoin, the dominant virtual currency, has attracted much public attention as well as scholarly interest. This policy brief discusses how some f...

money medium of exchange liquidity speculative bubble

started by Fabrizio Terzi on 18 Sep 14 no follow-up yet

http://scientiaplusconscientia.wordpress.com/2014/08/06/towards-an-open-scientific-publishing-system-for-the-digital-era/

started by claudiacarvajal on 07 Oct 14 no follow-up yet

Khan Academy has expanded from just creating videos to include a whole platform through which students can move through the content, including analytics for teachers and parents to track them. And ...

module7

started by salma1504 on 18 Oct 14 no follow-up yet

A very interesting publication on equity in open knowledge: Bottlenecks in the Open-Access System: Voices from Around the Globe http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1039&contex...

Bottlenecks in the Open-Access System: Voices from Around Globe

started by mejjatialami on 30 Oct 14 no follow-up yet

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Why Hackers Do What They Do: Understanding Motivation and Effort in Free/Open Source Software Projects1

module4 open source knowledge access

started by Alefiyah Shikari on 22 Sep 14 no follow-up yet

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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Ordinary web users are literally shocked when understand the existence of the Deep Web, a network of interconnected systems, not indexed, having a size hundreds of times higher than the current web...

privacy knowledge

started by Fabrizio Terzi on 17 Sep 14 no follow-up yet

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There are many topics around open knowledge creation to submit here ; yet let me start by referring to "Snowball": http://www.snowballmetrics.com/ .... this is an example of an initiative that trie...

Connecting performance metrics such that open access publishing can possibly become a career stimulus.

started by Hans Van Mingroot on 18 Sep 14 no follow-up yet

This paper is written by Michael Anderson at UT San Antonio.[Link: http://jolt.merlot.org/vol7no4/anderson_1211.pdf] The crowdsourced generation of content is necessary to build open and distribute...

crowdsourcing distributed learning

started by umnouyp on 14 Sep 14 no follow-up yet

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Interesting article that suggest to discard the term IP totally. It is translated to Arabic, but once again this debate is not common in our region. We are end users and our political systems does ...

http:__www.gnu.org_philosophy_not-ipr.ar.html

started by Abdul Naser Tamim on 07 Oct 14 no follow-up yet

This article re-emphasizes the fact that traditional lectures are ineffective ways of conveying new knowledge. This article takes the next step and emphasizes the importance of digital media and on...

MOOC online learning blackboard the independent

started by anonymous on 03 Sep 14 3 follow-ups, last by anonymous on 08 Oct 14

The history of human knowledge is closely linked to the history of civilization-one could even argue that the history of civilization is in large parts based on knowledge creation and its dissemina...

module6

started by salma1504 on 13 Oct 14 no follow-up yet

For the last century, scientific activity has been firmly placed in universities or other academic organizations, government laboratories, or in the R&D department of firms. Scholars in the sociolo...

module 6

started by salma1504 on 13 Oct 14 no follow-up yet

twitter: @ricbruno71

Module3 Europe skills

started by ricbruno on 10 Oct 14 1 follow-up, last by ricbruno on 10 Oct 14

Walco Solutions offers Automation & embedded internships program. The internship program provides practical work experience and an introduction to Automation and Embedded systems for the coll...

started by Walco Solutions on 26 May 15 no follow-up yet

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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http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/ The UBC Library provides access to server space and to the open source OJS (Open Journal Systems) software for UBC faculty members who are editing or supporting Open Acc...

open access

started by pad123 on 18 Nov 14 no follow-up yet