thoughtful article on the idea that path dependance has led to an academic publishing system that works but is sub-optimal in the new technology environment.
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OCW Finder helps people find free online courses called OpenCourseWares (OCWs). Universities and other OCW providers can register their courses with OCW Finder to help people find them.
Jon Beasley-Murray posting a little about the impact of the "Murder, Madness, and Mayhem" project where his students created featured articles on Latin American literature.
Google Refine is a power tool for working with messy data sets, including cleaning up inconsistencies, transforming them from one format into another, and extending them with new data from external web services or other databases. Version 2.0 introduces a new extensions architecture, a reconciliation framework for linking records to other databases (like Freebase), and a ton of new transformation commands and expressions.
I think the evolving Net Literacies relate to the shift to the Web as a resource which requires users to become their own librarians and thus need information retrieval and evaluation skills. As we move to a Participatory Culture, and Open Ed, with issues of identity and co-creation kicking in, we need a broader range of skills to become effective in these new contexts.
A rash of note sharing services are developing, some 'official', some not, some for profit, some not. Has some of the usual 'terrible' quotes embedded.