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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.
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.
Tim Berners-Lee: demand your data from Google and Facebook | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views
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TBL on why FB, Abble and Apps are bad for freedom.
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""
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.
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 ...
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."
Weibo: The Chinese Twitter that dwarfs Twitter | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views
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Short description of Weibo with 140m users compared to Twitter's 56m. Weibo is used in a different way with many more retweets, less comment, and more advertising.
Do online courses spell the end for the traditional university? | Education | The Observer - 0 views
Online learning: how it can widen and formalise access to higher education | Higher Edu... - 0 views
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Guardian article on Moocs
Advent of Google means we must rethink our approach to education | Education | The Obse... - 0 views
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Sugata Mitra (TED talks and hole-in-the-wall computer innovator) critiques traditonal 'pencil and paper' exams and learning and gives an alternative which is (I think) a problem-based learning approach which he calls SOLE (Self-organised learning environment).
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"
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"
Free access to British scientific research within two years | Science | The Guardian - 0 views
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Open is not all it seems when you still have to pay for it!
Blogging in the classroom: why your students should write online | Teacher Network Blog... - 0 views
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"Feedback, group work and a visible papertrail are all effortless gains. Display student work for class discussion, comment on student posts as feedback; set homework to post short peer critiques; devise project tasks requiring reading multiple peers' work and synthesising an overview with linked references."
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
Twitter goes down and the world falls silent | Charles Arthur | Media | The Guardian - 0 views
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Good article exploring a fundamental difference between news in Twitter and (lack of) news in Facebook
