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Nigel Robertson

The online copyright war: the day the internet hit back at big media | Technology | The... - 0 views

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    Guardian Article. "As the demise of the Sopa anti-piracy act showed, established arguments for protecting the rights of content creators are almost impossible to apply to a digital world"
Nigel Robertson

Miso project: how it will help you make your own Guardian-style infographics and data v... - 0 views

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    "Here on the Guardian's data team, we've wanted to help you visualise our data and create new viz styles for a long time. And now, thanks to some great work by the Guardian's Interactive team, that dream has moved one step closer. This week, developers Alastair Dant and Alex Graul launched the first part of the Miso project. In this piece, Alex explains it is a "Set of Open Source tools designed to make it faster and easier to create high quality interactive and data visualization content""
Nigel Robertson

The parable of the farmers and the Teleporting Duplicator | Dr Mike Taylor | Science | ... - 0 views

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    Using food as an analogy for the Internet & copyright and academic publishing houses.
Nigel Robertson

Full-Disclosure, Unredacted WikiLeaks, Security and The Guardian - Unscrewing Security - 0 views

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    Networks, security and philosophy. Why wikileaks is right to release the unredacted files.
Nigel Robertson

Hiding your research behind a paywall is immoral | Mike Taylor | Science | guardian.co.uk - 1 views

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    Article on why open access is important. Has a long exploration of the for & against arguments in the comments.
Nigel Robertson

Flashy university buildings: do they live up to the hype? | Education | The Guardian - 0 views

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    Guardian article on flash uni buildings. Students want space for groupwork, computers, better temps and air.
Nigel Robertson

Teaching styles in HE: to inform or enlighten? | Higher Education Network | Guardian Pr... - 1 views

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    The move from a tutorial and learning system for the elite to the massification of lectures in the early 19th Century.
Stephen Harlow

PowerPoint: the kudzu of modern communication | Cory Franklin | Comment is free | guard... - 0 views

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    "Australian researchers have discovered information is best processed either orally or in writing, but not both ways simultaneously. Thus, PowerPoint presentations can backfire when what's on the screen is the same as what the speaker is saying, because audience attention is automatically divided."
Nigel Robertson

Copyright wars are damaging the health of the internet | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 1 views

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    Interesting article by Cory Doctorow on why the anti-piracy drive is harming the Internet. 
Nigel Robertson

Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google's Sergey Brin | Technology | The G... - 0 views

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    "Facebook and Apple are leading to the Balkanisation of the Internet"
Nigel Robertson

The real cost of free | Cory Doctorow | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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    Op-ed on why DRM and anti-piracy movements are doomed to fail and the invasion of privacy and reduction of human rights that legislation allows, and why people should accept that the times they have a changed ...
Stephen Bright

Using the web for learning and teaching - a new understanding | Higher Education Networ... - 0 views

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    Using the web for learning & teaching - @daveowhite's new understanding http://t.co/WEuEjNcc #digitalliteracy #highered (via @enactivist)
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    Genre's of participation - were we moving towards this with our survey descriptors?
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    'visitors' and 'residents' paradigm for ways of interacting on the web - unlike digital natives paradigm does not imply any age-related differences
Stephen Harlow

Social media savvy: the universities and academics leading the way | Higher Education N... - 0 views

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    "...research is a social process, and that building a network of peers is nothing new, but significantly increased by the use of social media."
Stephen Harlow

Student as producer: reinventing higher education through undergraduate research | High... - 1 views

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    "...the two main activities in a lecturer's job, research and teaching, work against each other." So why not get the students doing research too?
Nigel Robertson

Female academics: don't power dress, forget heels - and no flowing hair allowed | Highe... - 1 views

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    The hidden side of discrimination in HE.
Nigel Robertson

Why open access isn't enough in itself | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional - 0 views

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    Account of difficulty with Open Access and misunderstanding / misreporting. Not an argument to stop OA but a plea to make the OA change now mean something to readers.
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