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koobredaer

"Freedom for scholarship in the internet age" - 1 views

theses.lib.sfu.ca/etd7530

open access publishing scholarly communication economics module9

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  • koobredaer on 29 Oct 14
     
    This is a thesis from a professor who occasionally teaches a Scholarly Communication course at UBC iSchool. It deals with complicated questions of economics of scholarly publishing. If you are looking for sources for research, there is a lot in here for you. Worth skimming through and reading any chapters of interest. "Freedom for Scholarship in the Internet Age examines distortion in the current scholarly communication system and alternatives, focusing on the potential of open access. High profits for a select few scholarly journal publishers in the area of science, technology, and medicine contrast with other portions of the scholarly publishing system such as university presses that are struggling to survive."
rlamim

Mooc Makers Increase Competition With B-Schools With Executive Courses - 0 views

www.businessbecause.com/...petition-with-business-schools

MOOC

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  • rlamim on 17 Nov 14
     
    Executive education courses are most schools' main sources of income. They are often customized and sold to private corporations, covering business trends such as big data and leadership. Moocs are seen by many in the education sector as a direct threat to MBA and master's programs, offering similar content developed by tenure or tenure-track professors, but free of charge.
  • c maggard on 17 Nov 14
     
    Remember when the for profit university rose to a new prominence a decade or so ago, and everyone you knew flocked to the University of Phoenix to finish their degree and get a fabulous new job? I hope the MOOC doesn't turn into that. The hope was that it would enable those isolated by distance and means would elevate themselves thru their use. Sadly, according to findings by Forbes, it's mostly white, educated, employed American males taking them. I wonder which carries more weight with hiring managers--the MOOC-taker, or the traditional paying student?
rlamim

Move over MOOCs - Collaborative MOOC 2.0 is coming - 0 views

www.universityworldnews.com/article.php

MOOC 2.0

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  • rlamim on 17 Nov 14
     
    A new type of MOOC - dubbed MOOC 2.0 - could disrupt the way courses are devised, altering the top-down university designed curriculum and the professor-to-student course structure that is still part of the MOOC model.
jurado-navas

Is this the end for books? - 5 views

www.theguardian.com/...kindle-books

Module8 publishing open future

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  • jurado-navas on 09 Nov 14
     
    In 1996, the US computer entrepreneur Brewster Kahle set up the Internet Archive, its mission being to provide "universal access to all knowledge". This admirable project strives to store copies of every single web page ever posted: a ghostly archive of the virtual.
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  • jurado-navas on 09 Nov 14
     
    Apliquemos la ley de Clarke a estas predicciones. Si la predicción de los eminentes estudiosos de edad madura, y bibliófilos, se formula así: ES POSIBLE QUE EL LIBRO IMPRESO EN PAPEL NO DESAPAREZCA, y la ley de Clarke dice: "Cuando un científico pero de edad madura afirma que algo es posible, casi siempre estará en lo cierto. Cuando declara que algo es imposible, lo más probable es que se equivoque", la predicción casi siempre será cierta si esos libros no desaparecen. Si la predicción se formula en esta forma: ES IMPOSIBLE QUE EL LIBRO DESAPAREZCA, y los libros desaparecen, lo más probable es que se equivoquen. ¿Por cuál fórmula optamos? Apliquemos ahora la primera versión del corolario de Asimov a la predicción que augura el fin del libro formulada así: EL LIBRO ESTÁ MUERTO (O MORIRÁ), AUNQUE NO DEL TODO. El corolario dice: "Sin embargo, cuando el público profano se manifiesta en torno a una idea denunciada por científicos eminentes pero de edad madura, y apoya dicha idea con fervor y sentimiento, es posible, después de todo, que los científicos eminentes pero de edad madura estén en lo cierto". Por lo tanto: Es posible, después de todo, que los eminentes estudiosos pero de edad madura, y bibliófilos, estén en lo cierto. No hay más remedio que esperar a que pase el tiempo para ver si se cumplen la ley y los corolarios en las predicciones, enunciadas en una u otra forma. (Tomado de http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0025-76802012000200019)
  • ibudule on 17 Nov 14
     
    Thank you for posting. Although I am not very keen on reading fiction electronically, the article was very interesting and informative about the latest tendencies in electronic publishing.
  • nthabi on 17 Nov 14
     
    I am one of those people who like reading books electronically and enjoy it. Kindle has been around for some years now but we still have books publshed in paper format. There is still a number of people who prefare to have paper copy of a book. Books are here to stay. I have a kindle but I hardly ever use the devise. I use the app on my mobile, computer or Ipad.
monde3297

Free internet for africa in cards - 4 views

www.timeslive.co.za/...e-internet-for-africa-on-cards

Knowledge

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  • monde3297 on 17 Nov 14
     
    Free internet for Africa
  • nthabi on 17 Nov 14
     
    The sooner Africa gets the internet the better. The cost of internet is too high and out of reach for many people. Free internet will facilitate access to information. I hope this will reach rural areas and maginalised communities.
  • pad123 on 17 Nov 14
     
    yes, it is very good to get free internet for Africa so that knowledge dissipation happens and open knowledge can will be useful to all of them and also benefit from that OK. IT infrastructure and internet is required to benefit from open accessible open knowledge.
rlamim

Arizona - MOOC popularity rises, UA professors join trend - 1 views

www.wildcat.arizona.edu/...rises-ua-professors-join-trend

MOOC

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  • rlamim on 17 Nov 14
     
    Different news in different states
  • Leopoldo Basurto on 17 Nov 14
     
    La tendencia global, según lo he aprendido en este MOOC, es la participación de personas con un grado académico en los MOOCs. Aunque en principio se quiere expandir el acceso al conocimiento entre un público mayor, ¿por qué no dirigir los MOOCs decididamente hacia el público universitario y académico?
Leopoldo Basurto

Repositorio de Acceso Abierto, Universidad del Sur de la Florida - 0 views

scholarcommons.usf.edu

open access module11 USF scholar commons

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  • Leopoldo Basurto on 17 Nov 14
     
    Aunque un tema de equidad es el diseño e implementación de iniciativas de OA que den voz a los participantes del "Sur", nosotros que habitamos el "Sur" deberemos mantenernos al tanto de los desarrollos y posibilidades originadas en el norte
  • Leopoldo Basurto on 17 Nov 14
     
    En México el acceso al conocimiento, sea acceso libre o pagado, depende en gran medida del uso de la lengua inglesa. Los planes de estudio de las licenciaturas suelen incluir el aprendizaje del idioma inglés, lo que demuestra su orientación global en este sentido. Propongo dejar de ver el idioma como una forma neocolonial de dominio, y enfocarlo como una herramienta de empoderamiento.
alwillw

http://www.iheartintelligence.com/2014/08/31/free-books-100-legal-sites-download-litera... - 3 views

www.iheartintelligence.com/...egal-sites-download-literature

literature books download eBooks open Access

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  • ibudule on 17 Nov 14
     
    Thank you for sharing.
eclecctica

Infomation (transformed into infographics) is beautiful - 1 views

www.informationisbeautiful.net

knowledge

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  • eclecctica on 17 Nov 14
     
    A blow-mind website. Any kind of information transformed into appealing, beautiful infographics.
eclecctica

When Open Science meets Citizen Science - 0 views

experiment.com/...s-of-all-skill-levels-and-ages

Open Science Citizen Science

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  • eclecctica on 17 Nov 14
     
    "We believe in affordable access to scientific tools, citizen science, and science literacy. We are working to put science back into the hands of the individual through cheap workshops, low membership fees, training, and designing cost effective tools"
Anna Kloc

Education in 2030 - 2 views

www.tandfonline.com/...02680513.2013.871199

open access knowledge

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  • Anna Kloc on 17 Nov 14
     
    A good overview of open education in the future. Personalized education will play a great role in preparing people for a job market.
mbishon

Predatory open access publishing - 0 views

en.m.wikipedia.org/...edatory_open-access_publishing

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  • mbishon on 17 Nov 14
     
    I was reading one of the week 12 additional resources, PKP School: Becoming a Reviewer http://pkpschool.sfu.ca/becoming-a-reviewer/ and came across the term Predatory Open Access Publishing. I guess no matter what, someone is going to try to make a buck. There is also a site that others have posted here, http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ that is where Beall's list is housed. Beall's list is a list of potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers - a good place to check if you are thinking of writing or reviewing for a journal, if it's on the list do more digging and research on the journal itself before committing to anything. The journal names all sound pretty impressive so you can't tell by name alone.
Kevin Stranack

Open Discovery Initiative - National Information Standards Organization - 3 views

www.niso.org/odi

module8 discovery

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  • Kevin Stranack on 27 Oct 14
     
    "The Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) aims at defining standards and/or best practices for the new generation of library discovery services that are based on indexed search. These discovery services are primarily based upon indexes derived from journals, ebooks and other electronic information of a scholarly nature. "
Olga Huertas

7 propuestas para mejorar el acceso abierto en América Latina - 3 views

blogs.iadb.org/...ceso-abierto-en-america-latina

modulo 9

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  • Olga Huertas on 04 Nov 14
     
    América Latina avanza con paso firme hacia el Open Access pero todavía quedan desafíos importantes para que esta corriente se consolide. Los gobiernos ya parecen convencidos de que el acceso abierto es el futuro, y así lo demuestran las leyes de acceso abierto que se han aprobado en y .
  • Ignoramus OKMOOC on 16 Nov 14
     
    If Google Translate gets it right, the article suggests 7 ideas to promote open acces in Latin America: - Promote a culture of open access among the young - Invite the new generation of researchers to build a new set of rules governing scholarly communication.- - Manage national access strategies - Promote awareness of the potential of open access - Provide training to scientists regarding intellectual property - Improve and standardize the taxonomy of documents to increase their visibility - Help Open Access journals to gain prestige These will apply to all other regions of the world as well. It shoul be noted that much of it can be done by the indivdual researcher, while some will best be untertaken by universities or libraries or even the state.
Rosa Munoz-Luna

Signum - Android Apps on Google Play - 2 views

play.google.com/...details

open access Knowledge MOOC module7

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  • Rosa Munoz-Luna on 02 Nov 14
     
    Signum es un traductor de español a (LSE) Lengua de Signos Española, basado en Apertium, y usando el catálogo de signos de CATEDU. Características principales: - T...
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  • jurado-navas on 02 Nov 14
     
    Una aplicación muy interesante que promueve la integración de los estudiantes con discapacidad auditiva en un aula, ya que permite la traducción simultánea de los fonemas y las palabras al lenguaje de signos. Muchas gracias por la aportación.
  • jurado-navas on 16 Nov 14
     
    Conozco al profesor que ha llevado a cabo la investigación, Dr. Vicente Arévalo, y sé de su capacidad de innovación. En este caso, la aplicación es capaz de responder a una necesidad básica: la inclusión de aquellos individuos con discapacidad en un aula, de manera que todos puedan convivir en un clima de armonía y normalidad. La inmediata traducción de voz a lenguaje Braille facilita este hecho y permite dar un paso más en la realidad perseguida de una Escuela Inclusiva.
  • jurado-navas on 16 Nov 14
     
    Conozco al profesor que ha ideado el proyecto, Dr. Vicente Arévalo, así como su capacidad para innovar y trabajar. La aplicación cubre un hueco fundamental en la búsqueda de una Escuela Inclusiva, al permitir a personas con discapacidad (en este caso, auditiva), poder participar de manera natural en la dinámica de un aula, interaccionando con el resto de sus compañeros. Ello se consigue gracias a esta aplicación, que permite realizar una traducción simultánea e inmediata del lenguaje hablado al lenguaje Braille, haciendo más próxima la realidad de una completa escuela inclusiva.
Olga Huertas

Who's Afraid of Peer Review? - 3 views

www.sciencemag.org/...60.full

module6 open access knowledge

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  • Olga Huertas on 10 Oct 14
     
    Of the 255 papers that underwent the entire editing process to acceptance or rejection, about 60% of the final decisions occurred with no sign of peer review. For rejections, that's good news: It means that the journal's quality control was high enough that the editor examined the paper and declined it rather than send it out for review.
  • kamrannaim on 16 Nov 14
     
    This article is certainly controversial, and I believe in some way did a service to the Open Access community by highlighting the practice of predatory journals. However, the irony of Bohannon's article, being an example of the kind of "bad science" he describes in his own article is inescapable. First, there is no randomization of his "experimental group", and there is no control group; second, there was elimination of non-responders; third, there was no application of the intention to treat principle in the analysis; and finally there were no inferential statistics and no references! Using his own standard, there is nothing that can be concluded from his study. For the criticism regarding Bohannon's targeting of OA journals exclusively, it is important to note that this experiment has been done before with 'traditional' journals as well- and many of them failed the test of peer review. http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/02/27/how_nonsense_papers_ended_up_in_respected_scientific_journals.html
  • Ignoramus OKMOOC on 16 Nov 14
     
    I think Bohannens "study" should be considered more "investigative journalism" than scientific study. While it may have some flaws if held against the standards of a scientific study, as a journalistic piece it goes a long way to justify its central accusation that there are predatory open access journals. He does not claim that there are no or evwen less predatory journals in the tradional sector (although it seems reasonable to believe that it might seem easier to predatory publishers to dupe unsuspecting scientists rather than subscription paying librarians). It demonstrates that open access is not a cure for all the problems besetting acacemic publishing. I think more deeply about it, it shows that author fees for publication may create a buisiness model just as open to abouse as the traditional subscription system. One answer might be to make the peer-review process more transparent, i.e. name the reviewers But that of course has other drawbacks.
bmierzejewska

Did He Just Say That?! The Perils of Video Recording the Conference Presentation | The ... - 1 views

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/...he-said-what

open access

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  • bmierzejewska on 15 Jul 14
     
    "implying that publishers have willfully disregarded their ethical responsibilities over profits: And my theory is that academic publishing has drifted so far from its original idealistic roots with scientists taking care of the whole last step in the scientific process, from experiment to sharing the news about it, [that] in this world of the Internet and expensive publishing processes, basically a cottage industry grew up that has now grown into a massive multi-billion dollar industry that has become estranged from the ideals, that were probably naïve to begin with. But you can be idealistic and do a good job and make a profit. That is not mutually exclusive."
cvpido

Adobe is Spying on Users, Collecting Data on Their eBook Libraries - The Digital Reader - 7 views

the-digital-reader.com/...ollecting-data-ebook-libraries

knowledge publishing privacy module7 Adobe

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  • cvpido on 15 Oct 14
     
    Adobe has just given us a graphic demonstration of how not to handle security and privacy issues. A hacker acquaintance of mine has tipped me to a huge security and privacy violation on the part of Adobe. That anonymous acquaintance was examining Adobe's DRm for educational purposes when they noticed that Digital Editions 4, the newest version of ...
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  • cuptlib on 15 Oct 14
     
    Why? For what purpose? Sorry I am clueless. But any spying could have serious consequences.
  • anonymous on 16 Oct 14
     
    Privacy doesn't exist anymore. And yes it does have serious consequences. Any rouge agent can take all the information about you and do whatever they want with it because no one is watching the watchers.
  • ibudule on 17 Oct 14
     
    Something to think about.
  • Dvora Marina Brodsky on 16 Nov 14
     
    The Internet is challenging its users privacy, and privacy carries a different meaning in the Digital Age.
  • tlsohn on 16 Nov 14
     
    It seems internet users might just have to become "comfortable" with software companies now having access to large amounts of information about them…the new normal
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