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Derek Gittler

Why publish science in peer-reviewed journals? - 2 views

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    "In this post, I will argue that cutting journals out of scientific publishing to a large extent would be unconditionally a good thing, and that the only thing keeping this from happening is the absence of a "killer app"."
Derek Gittler

BBC News - Hundreds of GPs admit to using the website Wikipedia as a medical research tool - 0 views

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    Shades of the Shirky Symposium Keynote? At first glance this might seem frightening to the layman, but think about it: knowledgeable, trained doctors using an additional but social source to find information that augments peer reviewed journals.
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    I wonder how much time doctors have to devote to research in peer reviewed journals. Maybe they get to read JAMA. When Andrew needs to look up something medical, he often starts with Wikipedia or PubMed and then digs deeper from there.
Emily Rimland

The Tablet Revolution | Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) - 0 views

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    " 11% of U.S. adults now own a tablet computer of some kind. About half (53%) get news on their tablet every day,"
Cole Camplese

Designing a big news site is about more than beauty » Nieman Journalism Lab »... - 2 views

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    Lessons for the TLT website?
Cole Camplese

An affordable digital biology textbook that never goes out-of-date | Science | guardian... - 5 views

  • What would you say if I told you that there's a new introductory biology textbook being published that is affordable, lightweight and never goes out of date?
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    I hope that lifelong access becomes the new norm. I keep hearing publishing companies talking about online textbooks with access that would be limited to a set period (a semester or six months). That's fine if you're taking a single course that you don't really care about - but I don't want students to feel that way about their learning. Courses build upon each other. Good reference materials should serve a purpose for years, not months.
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    Absolutely, publishers are missing the boat here. I'm involved in a handful of focus groups on reading compliance, and whenever this comes up the majority of the students cite the limited access model as the main reason they won't go with online textbooks. Even if they don't end up keeping the book, they want that option...not a 4-6 month access window.
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    Strange ... I didn't keep any textbooks until grad school. I used them and returned them for gas money and simply moved on to the next semester.
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    I returned many of mine, but kept the foundation books that I'd need for other courses - calculus, mechanics, chemistry, etc... Many of them were used for more than one course (e.g. Math 140 and 141). I'd hate to have to buy the same book twice and then not have it afterward for other courses.
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    I think that's typically what these students do in the focus group, but it was all about 'having the option' to keep the book at the end of the course. Might be some sort of perception of options thing going on here. The other popular comment was "I look at computer screens all day, I definitely don't want to look at a computer screen to read fine print another 1-2 hours a day". A couple students really bashed their profs about the quality of PDFs they are putting online, meaning that profs are STILL photocopying PDFs from journals, that cut words from a column and are angled funny in the PDF. Claimed these were unreadable online and they had to print them out to 'guess' at some of the words and fill them in by hand.
Derek Gittler

University of Chicago's new Mansueto Library | wordlessTech - 1 views

  • As more books and journals become easily accessible online, it’s easy to wonder if brick-and-mortar libraries could go the way of the video store. But research at the university has shown that the more people look to digital resources, the more they consult physical materials as well, according to Judith Nadler, director of the University of Chicago Library.
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    I know, I know, online research methods, but darn it if this doesn't just get me all excited.
gary chinn

In college, it's not so much who lectures as how the teaching is done, Nobelist's study... - 2 views

  • He found that in nearly identical classes, Canadian college students learned a lot more from teaching assistants using interactive tools than they did from a veteran professor giving a traditional lecture. The students who had to engage interactively using the TV remote-like devices scored about twice as high on a test compared to those who heard the normal lecture, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science.
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    story about clicker use that vicki williams found. I'd be less inclined to think it was that big a deal (it's only one study, not a meta-analysis, etc), but it's being published in Science is huge in terms of visibility.
Jeff Swain

William James and Rethinking the Global Research University - WorldWise - The Chronicle... - 0 views

  • I have been frustrated by the dramatic increase in specialization that has taken hold across so many disciplines. Since I first started in academe more and more journals have sprouted which seem to say more and more about less and less, each with their own attendant group of acolytes.
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      you can read the essay here http://des.emory.edu/mfp/octopus.html
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