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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.
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The Three Keys To Unlocking The Sharing Economy | LinkedIn - 2 views

www.linkedin.com/...-unlocking-the-sharing-economy sharing economy
shared by bmierzejewska on 07 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • bmierzejewska on 07 Jul 14
     
    collaborative consumption is one of the ways of sharing
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Open Data developments in Asia | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog - 1 views

blog.okfn.org/...open-data-developments-in-asia Module7 Module6 Module8 opendata open access information knowledge South Asia Asia
shared by janetw_suiching on 26 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • janetw_suiching on 27 Nov 14
     
    This blog about Open Data Developments in Asia analyses the recent state of Open Data adopted in Asia and highlights some of the 11 Asian countries participants that attended the Open Knowledge Conference in Geneva in 2012. Of the 11 countries that attended the conference, the author of the post focuses on the East Asian and Pacific countries such as New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar and discusses their state and role in Openness. The author does a good job at providing statistics of the different countries in terms of the Worldbank Knowledge Economy Index (KEI), which analyzes the economic rankings of countries. The author then compares economic rank to that of openness, stating that countries low on the economic rank contribute little to no open data within their own countries or externally to other countries. Next, the author talks about the overall internet penetration in Asia as being only 27.5 percent and in that statistic, there is still a wide gap between North and South East Asia in terms of internet use and information distribution and acquisition from citizens and others. Moreover, the author continues to compare how many social, economical, political and cultural influence information distribution, contribution and acquisition in Asia countries. Openness is growing in the more developed Asian countries, but openness is limited, or even nonexistent, in developing (authoritative) countries. After reading this article, I've had a greater understanding of the current state of Open Data in Asia an the influences that contribute to enabling Openness. What I expected from the blog post or something that would've made the post even better could be some examples or projects of Openness or Open Data in Asia.

A Day in the Life of the Collaborative Economy - 3 views

started by Sophie Lafayette on 14 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
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Open data, open web: Just a passing fad? with Professor Leslie Carr by theodi on SoundC... - 1 views

soundcloud.com/...fad-with-professor-leslie-carr module1 open data privacy lecture
shared by kristin_k on 08 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • kristin_k on 08 Sep 14
     
    From June 2014, lecture at the Open Data Institute, UK. Professor Carr explains how the open web we know is just one of many attempts over the last century to build a planet-wide network of information. Why was this one successful? And will it continue to be so? Professor Leslie Carr is a Director of the Web Science Institute at the University of Southampton where he researches the impact of network technologies on our lives and economy, and in particular on the research and knowledge industries. Slides for this talk can be found here - http://www.scribd.com/doc/230569908/Friday-lunchtime-lecture-Open-data-open-web-Just-a-passing-fad-with-Professor-Leslie-Carr (recommended) From the slides, I thought this was interesting: "......The loss of ignorance, by all agreeing to share information The loss of privacy , by all agreeing to share a public space " also: "......The development of society as a whole (nuanced and structured and refined) is inextricably related to the technology of information provision, consumption and dissemination (e.g. writing, reading, printing, education). Different parts of society have different objectives and hence incompatible Web requirements, e.g. openness, security, transparency, privacy."
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Science, Technology, and Inequalities in the Global Knowledge Economy: Policy Dimensions - 2 views

www.ces.uc.pt/...sition_paper_Del%231_Final.pdf module11 knowledge technology
shared by liyanl on 14 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • liyanl on 14 Nov 14
     
    The paper is divided into two main sections. The first explores the central concepts of the ResIST project: the knowledge economy; inequalities; and science and technology policies. The second provides illustrations of the treatment of inequalities in S&T-related policies at three levels: national, European, and global.

From Intellectual Property to the Economy of Knowledge - 0 views

started by gabrielromitelli on 04 Dec 14 no follow-up yet
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Martin Eve: Building the Open Library of the Humanities - 5 views

lj.libraryjournal.com/...open-library-of-the-humanities module9 scholarly publishing altmetrics open access
shared by Kevin Stranack on 30 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Kevin Stranack on 30 Sep 14
     
    "At the same time, a fair amount of resistance to OA practices still exists. Publishers object to OA on economic principles, as it undermines the revenue generated by journals. Some researchers feel that it devalues their work as well, lowering it to the level of "a database to be consulted," in Eve's words. He believes the academic community is over-reliant on scholarly publishing's status quo; as he told the crowd at Columbia, "the system reinforces itself through economies of prestige." Even as interest in altmetrics grows, the quality of research continues to be gauged by the number of citations an article gathers and the status of the journal it appears in."
  • rafopen on 12 Nov 14
     
    This is a good overview of a project that seeks to demystify and break down resistance to open educational resources.
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The New Revolutionaries: Coding A Creative, Technological Future - SERIOUS WONDER - 2 views

www.seriouswonder.com/-creative-technological-future open access mooc knowledge open code code in a day
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  • larssl on 02 Oct 14
     
    Learning the language of code empowers a new kind of entrepreneur to make extraordinary creative leaps with their business. There are many examples, such as Andy Puddicombe who has used technology to bring meditation and mindfulness to the world with his business HEADSPSACE, and Lily Cole who has created IMPOSSIBLE - a way of allowing people to utilise the gift economy online.

Bitcoin as Money? - 1 views

started by Fabrizio Terzi on 18 Sep 14 no follow-up yet
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The Case for Open Access » - 0 views

open-access.org.uk/case-for-oa The case for open access
shared by Jen Eidelman on 29 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Jen Eidelman on 29 Sep 14
     
    UK Open Access Implementation Group
  • Jen Eidelman on 29 Sep 14
     
    YouTube: The case for Open Access - UK Open Access Implementation group. Why is open access important to your organisation? How is open access important to UK economy and society? What is the risk if open access doesn't happen.... What do you hope the Open Access implemation group will achieve?
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Is There Capitalism After Cronyism? - 0 views

www.theamericanconservative.com/...here-capitalism-after-cronyism open access module 6
shared by chuckicks on 07 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • chuckicks on 07 Oct 14
     
    Judging by the mainstream media, the most pressing problems facing capitalism are 1) income inequality, the subject of Thomas Piketty's bestseller Capital in the Twenty-First Century , and 2) the failure of free markets to regulate their excesses, a common critique encapsulated by Paul Craig Roberts' recent book The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism .
  • chuckicks on 07 Oct 14
     
    This article is primarily about structural change in the global economy. But Smith notes, "[T]he middle class that has paid for its ever-expanding consumption with rising wages is in structural decline due to the displacement of human labor by software; and the state's ability to manage structural crises while protecting global cartel profits is being undermined...by the ever rising costs of providing healthcare and income security and paying the external costs of environmental damage." He goes on, "What could replace the current iteration of global state-capitalism? If we assemble these three potentially transformative dynamics-degrowth, the recoupling of risk and loss, and entrepreneurial mobile capital-we discern a new and potentially productive teleological arc to global capitalism, one that moves from a capitalism based on financial hyper-centralization and obsession with rising consumption to one focused on more efficient use of resources and capital via decentralization and localized innovation." We might ponder how open access/open knowledge can play a role these transformative dynamics.
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Open Access Policies in Europe - 0 views

www.openscholarship.org/...er_-_oa_policies_in_europe.pdf open access mooc module 6
shared by fraup74 on 09 Oct 14 - No Cached
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  • fraup74 on 09 Oct 14
     
    Written in 2010, this 5 page paper explains how Europe (UK and Germany specifically) has embraced open access and made it a priority to further its knowledge economy. This references the Budapest Open Access Initiative in 2002, and goes on to describe policies post 2006.
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Property Rights for the Future - 1 views

youtu.be/rUKU75q7Afc open access module4 knowledge open
shared by Julia Echeverría on 26 Sep 14 - No Cached
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  • Julia Echeverría on 26 Sep 14
     
    Hi there, I have just find this excelente video about the future os property rihgts and think that may be interesting for you all. "Property Rights Development: Implications for Sustainability | PRESENTER: Brian Kelly, Graduate Student Fellow, MS Candidate in Community Development and Applied Economics | 4/20/12 Modern property rights assignments and regimes are ill-equipped to adapt to increased ecological scarcity, resulting in economically-inefficient outcomes and a systemic inability to enable the development of a green economy. This presentation will discuss how property rights emerge, the viability of rights for future generations, and the how the existence of environmental externalities necessitates the inevitable emergence of common property rights regimes, grounded in the empirical example of Vermont's groundwater". Regards Julia Echeverría
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Suetzl, Stalder, Maier, Hug (Eds.): Cultures and Ethics of Sharing (2011) - 3 views

monoskop.org/...ures_and_Ethics_of_Sharing.pdf sharing module1 labour FOSS
shared by Valentin Dander on 23 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Valentin Dander on 23 Sep 14
     
    This is an interdisciplinary open access publication on sharing after a conference being held in Innsbruck, Austria 2011. I would especially like to recommend the article by Katherine Sarikakis (Sharing, Labour and Governance on Social Media: A Rights Lacuna), who is dealing with invisible 'online labour' on SNS from a political economy perspective. Very interesting one, because, in my opinion, this also applies to open knowledge projects as well.. But also the other articles by Andrea Hemetsberger ('Let the Source be with you!' - Practices of Sharing in Free and Open-Source Communities), Volker Grassmuck (The Sharing Turn: Why we are generally nice and have a good chance to cooperate our way out of the mess we have gotten ourselves into), and the others (half of it in English, the other in German) are definitely worth reading!
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SPARC - 2 views

www.sparc.arl.org/...open-access
shared by ussycat on 12 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • ussycat on 12 Oct 14
     
    Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. We engage and invest in research in order to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery, encourage innovation, enrich education, and stimulate the economy - to improve the public good.
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