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musicfordeckchairs.com musicfordeckchairs.com
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addressed the way we treat student writing as the waste product of assessment.
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arstechnica.com arstechnica.com
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A history of open access academic publishing from the early 1990s to 2016.
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er.educause.edu er.educause.edu
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If texts — content — are at the heart of a course, and content is now shaped into a process that depends on learner engagement in order to function fully, then OER propels us into truly student-centered territory.
from OER to OEP and open pedagogy
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Local file Local file
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the learning-analytics industry still lacks the kinds of standards and protocols that would make it easy to extract, organize, and share such data among institutions for research purposes.
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mfeldstein.com mfeldstein.com
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Sakai development is actually accelerating.
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www.constituteproject.org www.constituteproject.org
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Preamble Share We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
You can't get much better than this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GwjfUFyY6M
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hybridpedagogy.org hybridpedagogy.org
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educators and students alike have found themselves more and more flummoxed by a system that values assessment over engagement, learning management over discovery, content over community, outcomes over epiphanies
This Systems or "factory farming" approach to education seems antithetical to (and virtually guaranteed to flummox) a community-based, engaged, serendipitous and spontaneous learning explosion in traditional Higher Ed. Where are some cracks and crevices where the System has failed to snuff out the accidental life of learning?
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opencontent.org opencontent.org
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talking about open pedagogy as the “second power of open.”
There are clear signs that some move towards Open Pedagogy is in fact happening. At SALTISE, last week, @Downes made it quite clear that Open Education is about openness, not merely about cost.
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talking about open pedagogy as the “second power of open.”
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arstechnica.co.uk arstechnica.co.uk
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Open access: All human knowledge is there—so why can’t everybody access it?
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homonym.wordpress.com homonym.wordpress.com
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the LMS’s institutionally friendly attributes have an important role in shaping our thinking about teaching and learning.
But should it?
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In considering considerations, I think it’s important to begin with a thinking (or erasing?) exercise that asks you to forget everything you know or think you know about ed tech and start over.
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blog.jessfraz.com blog.jessfraz.com
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Jessie Frazelle's advice on saying "no" to patch requests for open source projects.
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www.oeconsortium.org www.oeconsortium.org
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Designing for Open Pedagogy with CCCOER
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wiki.de.dariah.eu wiki.de.dariah.eu
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List of publications on open access research data
nice bibliography!
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- May 2016
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thewinnower.com thewinnower.com
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The essay competition will run until June 15th and will be judged by a committee of scientists, librarians, members of industry, and students based on the following criteria.
Which criteria are you referring to?
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scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
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SSRN had one of the early freemium business models for an open access service.
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marketbrief.edweek.org marketbrief.edweek.org
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that OER can provide benefits to some schools, but that commercial resources will continue to have value because of the tech-based enhancements, in analytics and adaptive learning and other areas, that they offer beyond academic content.
Why can't OERs have the equivalent?
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radicalscholarship.wordpress.com radicalscholarship.wordpress.com
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Wiggins and McTighe’s solutions—backward design, sharing detailed rubrics with students, etc.—are certainly the right way to do teacher-centered, standards-driven education based on measurable outcomes.
I've been wondering for a long time about ID, UbD and the like as they fit in with open educational practices and open pedagogy. It seems like they're closed in a way, in that the the goals, the way they're defined and the means to getting there are all defined for the learner. But if we really want to help people grow and be all they can be, we have to cede control to the learners, so they can start to define their own goals, and find out how to set their own paths.
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tagteam.harvard.edu tagteam.harvard.edu
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Input feed: lkfitz's bookmarks
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notdead.trubox.ca notdead.trubox.ca
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curt-rice.com curt-rice.com
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5 billion reasons for open access
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campustechnology.com campustechnology.com
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FLEXspace is a repository and open online education resource institutions can use to research and share information about successful learning space design.
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adamcroom.com adamcroom.com
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To me, this is what OER for the web should start to reflect.
You mean it’s not just about the price of textbooks??
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www.insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com
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Open access is not fully realized without open peer review, which would provide opportunities for scholarly dialogue and critique throughout the writing process and beyond, argues Alex Mueller.
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www.project-syndicate.org www.project-syndicate.org
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Work on exploitation arising from asymmetries of information is an important example.
What is being referred to when "asymmetries of information" is mentioned? Could the open access (to scholarly publishing) movement help to reshape this asymmetry to be more symmetric?
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commons.gc.cuny.edu commons.gc.cuny.edu
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A public must allow for new members to join as the old fade away. A public must not die every semester.
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www.swissinfo.ch www.swissinfo.ch
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Around 40% of Swiss research is open access
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journals.uic.edu journals.uic.edu
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first MOOC was open in the sense articulated by the Open Education Consortium: knowledge, insights, and information were shared between students, and new knowledge, skills, ideas, and understanding built through sharing. This is perhaps the purest form of open education, in which the instructor is a facilitator, and the students collaborate to create a shared understanding.
in line with the Barth definition
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Cape Town Open Education Declaration (n.d.) declares that the promise of open education is that “each and every person on earth can access and contribute to the sum of all human knowledge.
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Jenkins’ argument is that cultural progress is necessarily the result of freedom
that progress is a result of technical abilities (literacies) as well as permissions
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material objects that may be patentable, rather than copyrightable, may be open. The Open Design Definition, for example, was developed in 2000 by the Open Design Foundation for the world of manufacturing design
open patent
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gamesandlearning.wordpress.com gamesandlearning.wordpress.com
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My experimentation with open pedagogy – and my attempts to guide students’ learning with/in and across open platforms – was a social endeavor that invited reciprocal networking.
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hybridpedagogy.org hybridpedagogy.org
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I can be in Egypt and in my home office at the same time. And because I can communicate with her at any moment, unexpectedly, I am always in Egypt and in my home office.
We saw this with Maha and Keegan via Twitter at OLC Innovate. Virtually Connecting added a dimension to the meeting, both bringing people together and challenging the pay to play standard of conferences.
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f1000research.com f1000research.com
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Writing and submission. The process of compiling findings, writing accompanying narrative and making this available for public view and scrutiny can be simplified by the use of new improved software. These tools can help identify relevant papers through increasingly powerful learning algorithms (e.g. F1000Workspace, Mendeley, Readcube). They can also enable collaborative authoring (e.g. F1000Workspace, Overleaf, Google docs), and provide formatting tools to simplify the process of structuring an article to ensure all the necessary underlying information has been captured (e.g. F1000Workspace, EndNote). Submission for posting as a preprint, and/or for formal publication and peer review, should be as simple as a single click.
How can an "Open Science Platform" be built upon proprietary tools only? Maybe is meaning of "open" to define here?
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dailycampus.com dailycampus.com
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After hundreds of emails with developers and peer-reviewers, his open-source book will be ready for use at UConn. Neth began planning for the second version of the book in January and the project has taken more than four months.
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socialboost.com.ua socialboost.com.ua
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SocialBoost — is a tech NGO that promotes open data and coordinates the activities of more than 1,000 IT-enthusiasts, biggest IT-companies and government bodies in Ukraine through hackathons for socially meaningful IT-projects, related to e-government, e-services, data visualization and open government data. SocialBoost has developed dozens of public services, interactive maps, websites for niche communities, as well as state projects such as data.gov.ua, ogp.gov.ua. SocialBoost builds the bridge between civic activists, government and IT-industry through technology. Main goal is to make government more open by crowdsourcing the creation of innovative public services with the help of civic society.
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I utilize some of the useful critiques OA has generated to inform the discussion of OER creation and practice.
Though there are major differences between Open Access and Open Educational Resources, the two approaches to openness share a lot. Advocates for both are likely to have a lot of values in common, including a distaste for inequalities.
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medium.com medium.com
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Books can learn from the web how to be bounded, but open.The web can learn from books how to be open, but bounded.
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blog.creativecommons.org blog.creativecommons.org
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Active OER: Beyond open licensing policies
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“free vs. open”
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hapgood.us hapgood.us
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Reasons Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have dominated the Web over blogs and independent sites:
- People prefer a single interface that makes it easy to flip or scroll through the new stuff. They don't like visiting a dozen different sites with different interfaces.
- Most people don't want to deal with site structure or complex editors, let alone markup languages or servers.
- Facebook quickly became a friends-and-family network, which pulled in more of the same.
- Following and unfollowing should only require a single click.
- Retweets and mentions introduce new people to follow, even if you aren't looking for them.
- Reposting should be easy, include obvious attribution, and comments should be attached.
- RSS readers had the potential to offer these things, but standard ways of using it were not widely adopted. Then Google Reader pushed out other readers, but was nevertheless shut down.
Let go of the idea of people reading your stuff on your site, and develop or support interfaces that put your readers in control of how they view the web instead of giving the control to the people with the servers.
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hapgood.us hapgood.us
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Blogs tend towards conversational and quotative reuse, which is great for some subject areas, but not so great for others. Wiki feeds forward into a consensus process that provides a high level of remix and reuse, but at the expense of personal control and the preservation of divergent goals. Wikity takes lessons from federated wiki, combining the individual control of blogging with the permissionless improvement of wiki.
Mike Caulfield introduces http://wikity.cc, a personal wiki platform in which editing is blog-like (it runs on WordPress), but pages can be easily copied and remixed.
I am particularly excited about ways it might be used to help faculty and students to collaborate on OER across institutions.
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academicbookfuture.org academicbookfuture.org
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Do we mean free open access?
Yes; this isn't hard. That is what all well-established (over a decade old) definitions of "open access" mean.
The comparison to inter-library loan both is and isn't helpful. It is helpful because it shows that libraries have never been purely competitive spaces. It is less helpful because the digital environment fundamentally alters the way we disseminate material and shifts the vast majority of costs to labour-to-first-copy, rather than in the dissemination phase.
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the hyperlink provided a diversity and decentralisation that the real world lacked
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We’re also losing the organic and open shape of the web. It’s becoming something much more rigid and more hierarchical.
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The hyperlink was a way to abandon centralization — all the links, lines and hierarchies — and replace them with something more distributed, a system of nodes and networks.
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ncccelearning.com ncccelearning.com
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Open Education Resources and Repositories
OER Repository
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hapgood.us hapgood.us
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"connected copies" - multiple copies of pages and other files stored across the Web, accessed by name rather than just a single address.
Some examples already exist: git, torrents, federated wiki, various named data networking projects, and the Interplanetary File System.
Distributed copies fight link rot and reduce Internet traffic congestion. More importantly, if the files are freely licensed, easy to copy, and easy to edit, the concept reaches toward the full peer-to-peer potential of the Web.
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oerresearchhub.org oerresearchhub.org
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OER Data Report
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hapgood.us hapgood.us
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what we sell in the Open Textbook movement is not just reduced cost.
And it's not just equality of access to "required" materials (though that's important too). It's more about the pedagogical process.
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Those students that bought the cheap version of the text back in 1991? They were pill-splitters. And they failed at pill-splitting (and maybe at the course). Do we own that failure? What we’ve learned over the past five years or so in OER is that what we sell in the Open Textbook movement is not just reduced cost. It’s the simplicity that you can get when you’re not working with an industry trying to milk every last dollar out of students. It’s every student having their materials on day one, for as long as they like, without having to navigate “simple” questions of what to buy, what to rent, and when-is-the-book-on-the-syllabus-that’s-required-not-really-required.
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Asking What Students Spend on Textbooks Is the Wrong Question
Cost of textbooks and what students are able to spend.
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www.davidson.edu www.davidson.edu
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Pedagogy in Public: Open Education Unbound
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dauwhe.github.io dauwhe.github.io
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Is it possible to add information to a resource without touching it?
That’s something we’ve been doing, yes.
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robinderosa.net robinderosa.net
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The University of New Hampshire Open Educational Resources Ambassador Pilot
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gigadb.org gigadb.org
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To maximize its utility
The unusual data released strategy involving crowdsourcing on twitter, is discussed in more detail in this blog http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/gigablog/2011/08/03/notes-from-an-e-coli-tweenome-lessons-learned-from-our-first-data-doi/
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“In the last 15 years, we’ve seen a massive transition in the way academic publishing is being done,” said Jules Blais, an environmental scientist at the University of Ottawa and editor of FACETS.
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www.huffingtonpost.com www.huffingtonpost.com
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Students Should Demand Their Colleges Produce Free Open Textbooks to End the Textbook Racket
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gigadb.org gigadb.org
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To date 5'-cytosine methylation (5mC) has not been reported in Caenorhabditis elegans, and using ultra-performance liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS/MS) the existence of DNA methylation in T. spiralis was detected, making it the first 5mC reported in any species of nematode.
As a novel and potentially controversial finding, the huge amounts of supporting data are depositedhere to assist others to follow on and reproduce the results. This won the BMC Open Data Prize, as the judges were impressed by the numerous extra steps taken by the authors in optimizing the openness and easy accessibility of this data, and were keen to emphasize that the value of open data for such breakthrough science lies not only in providing a resource, but also in conferring transparency to unexpected conclusions that others will naturally wish to challenge. You can see more in the blog posting and interview with the authors here: http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/gigablog/2013/10/02/open-data-for-the-win/
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biosharing.org biosharing.org
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Giga Science Database
For more about GigaDB, see the paper in Database Journal: http://database.oxfordjournals.org/content/2014/bau018.full
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christinhelen.com christinhelen.com
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Scholarly communication is the system through which research and other scholarly writings are created, evaluated for quality, disseminated to the scholarly community, and preserved for future use.” –Association of College and Research Libraries
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networked discovery of connections would be at the center of both the learning environment as designed by faculty and the learning environment as experienced by students
Would love to hear Campbell or Kuh elaborate on this. Identifying "connections" as more important than identifying content/information? A new way for searching the Internet? Mining connections among content/people? Mining the connections I've made among content/people on the Internet?
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medium.com medium.com
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When you see young people as agents of change, rather than objects to be changed,
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thewinnower.com thewinnower.com
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Students as Authors: Why Students Should Publish Their Class Essays Online
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It also arguably just shifts the costs of a broken system from students to the library.
Maybe thinking beyond the textbook needs to be there from the start. See Downes "the textbook is a monolith."
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involving students throughout the entire process
There is the goal. Free textbooks is a baby-step along the way.
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it sometimes isn’t enough just to say “this will save students money so we should do it.
Indeed!
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“While we have the ‘must do’ layer, there’s also that little bit of subversion here, giving kids that little bit of creativity and maybe a ray of hope,” Reisinger said. “I want them to learn that learning is not all about what someone else preordains for you. It’s OK to tinker and play with things.”
Refreshing! Self-directed learning. Agency. Almost smells like open pedagogy!
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www.healio.com www.healio.com
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Researchers have ‘ethical obligation’ to share data
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www.ubiquitypress.com www.ubiquitypress.com
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The Battle for Open: How openness won and why it doesn't feel like victory
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medium.com medium.com
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Academic Publishing is a Goddamned Exploitative Farce
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googleguacamole.wordpress.com googleguacamole.wordpress.com
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A Framework for Identifying and Evaluating Openly Networked Connected Learning Course Designs
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intheopen.net intheopen.net
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In the MIT Libraries we’ve just launched a new and innovative approach for our scholarly communications program — and for our collections budget: the collections budget is now part of the scholarly communications program.
Super rad!
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What occurs when we decide that agency and not expertise is the core principle of learning is that we must, as teachers, learn to see the very best in students.
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Imagine having at least part of your virtual learning environment (VLE) open, not just for current students (and even current students usually can't see all the teaching that might be useful to them) but for non-students, prospective students, or staff members who want to know what's happening down the road, across the country, in that academic department that interests them. NetworkED 2020 Watch Donna at NetworkED 2020: The London University, as she asks 'what if all of London were a networked University?'There would be so much potential for seeing the different ways in which departments are teaching, for instance. Which departments of biology are doing what in their labs? What theoretical approaches are they taking?
This to me is more transparent than open where the world outside can see,
In this context open to me is more about connecting, communicating, learning together and from each other. it's people can walk in on their own or be invited in, people inside can go explore and visit others
Important: Open to me is much more than that still. I remember the Vconnecting we had during OpenEd15 : No consensus on what "Open" means yet.
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Open data
Sadly, there may not be much work on opening up data in Higher Education. For instance, there was only one panel at last year’s international Open Data Conference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUtQBC4SqTU
Looking at the interoperability of competency profiles, been wondering if it could be enhanced through use of Linked Open Data.
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2016.wpcampus.org 2016.wpcampus.org
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Open Learning
Could soooo imagine a presentation on using #Hypothesis with #PressBooks!
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cogdogblog.com cogdogblog.com
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Think about that, a student speaks up to represent her class.
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The Open Stuff that I am interested in, is not just that anyone can walk through the door, as there are often ONLY IFs. They can walk through the door ONLY IF they create an account and login. They can walk through the door ONLY IF they are in certain parts of the world (geographic limits on media). Openness is not just a door.
This is a crucial paragraph in this post ... many of us assume openness as a possibility for everyone but the world is complicated for many, and the "if" question -- and how to change the nature of the world to lower barriers -- is as crucial as designing something that has the possibilities of open.
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you do not always know who is there with what class, or on their own.
I rarely even think about that idea of a "class of students is here" -- I just figure, this is my space and I am doing what I am doing, and enjoying what you re doing and so ... away we go ...
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gamesandlearning.wordpress.com gamesandlearning.wordpress.com
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open – that is, to make public, transparent, and participatory
Neat definition of “open”, very contextual, it sounds like.
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campustechnology.com campustechnology.com
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As of fall 2015, the University of Maryland University College (UMUC) no longer expects any undergraduate to spend money on textbooks.
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medium.com medium.com
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What is a business model?
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gamesandlearning.wordpress.com gamesandlearning.wordpress.com
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open annotation.
I'd like to hear discussion around the term "open" here. How exactly are you using it @remiholden? To mean public as opposed to private?
For me, open has specific infrastructural connotations: it's about a variety of annotation clients like hypothes.is conforming to certain wider standards so that web annotation--like the web itself--is an interoperable system.
But I'm curious the degree to which that matters to teachers and learners. And why? We're using hypothes.is, which promises to conform to standards being developed by the w3c, but could DIIGO do the trick even though they're system (for now) is closed?
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Faculty want to share their life’s work with others that care about their niche too.
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Textbook Cost Research Results
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georgecouros.ca georgecouros.ca
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Many times, the work we do as educators is actually taking away some of the most powerful learning from our students.
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Rebus Open Webbooks Building knowledge to build on
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thomascmurray.com thomascmurray.com
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3 Keys to Designing Learner-Centered Spaces
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Thoughts on using open eBooks as textbooks
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Who Pays for Supplemental Materials?
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Open educational resources and college textbook choices: a review of research on efficacy and perceptions
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If the average college student spends approximately $1000 per year on textbooks and yet performs scholastically no better than the student who utilizes free OER, what exactly is being purchased with that $1000?
Supplemental materials?
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download.springer.com download.springer.com
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A multi-institutional study of the impact of opentextbook adoption on the learning outcomes of post-secondary students
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littlegreycellsblog.wordpress.com littlegreycellsblog.wordpress.com
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Rhizomatic learning as an open pedagogy
Questioning the metaphor. Right there with you.
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www.sciencebusiness.net www.sciencebusiness.net
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Alongside the Dutch government, which is using its presidency of the EU to push the case for open access, only Hungary, Romania, Sweden and the UK, share the view that academic publishers should stop charging readers a subscription and instead charge authors for publishing their papers.
Could be worse.
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The peer-reviewed journal marks a new era in academic journal publishing. Discrete Analysis will follow the "diamond open access" model - free to read and free to publish in - and will be entirely editor-owned with no publisher middleman.
diamond open access
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www.genomeweb.com www.genomeweb.com
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right to privacy, while allowing them to make an informed choice about taking reasonable risks to their privacy in order to help advance research
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OCW Educator: Sharing teaching approaches and materials from MIT with educators everywhere, for free
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Open Pedagogy: Moving Forward
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A Pre-flight Check: Response to Wiley’s Open Pedagogy Challenge
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Notes on Open Pedagogy
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A framework for assessing fitness for purpose in open educational resources
When does using OER make sense... This is a great framework, especially if we are talking about assessing the OER completely on its own. But that probably isn't reality. OER is meant to be used, as in a process rather than a finished product. That process, the purposeful integration of the interactions and connections between teachers, students, "content" and the "open" public should be the foundation for such a framework.
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The OER is used to devise interactive ways of using OER to promote students’ engagement in the problem-solving process.
This is close. How about "promote students' engagement" with the OER itself? Student can annotate, edit, create, improve, expand the OER.
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The 'O' from OER is pretty absent from this list.
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Learners are engaged in solving real-world problems. Existing knowledge is activated as a foundation for new knowledge. New knowledge is demonstrated to the learner. New knowledge is applied by the learner. New knowledge is integrated into the learner’s world.
Not totally on board with this. Perhaps if "learner" role can be filled with student or instructor.
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1) Providing open, accessible and quality content for a wider community of teachers and learners. 2) Sharing best practice and helping to avoid re-inventing the wheel. 3) Helping developing countries improve and expand learning for development opportunities. 4) Offering flexible non-formal and informal knowledge and skills accumulation pathways to formal study. 5) Providing learning opportunities for geographically, socially or economically excluded students and non-traditional and work-based learners. 6) Improving the quality of conventional and online education by achieving greater awareness of open and inclusive educational practices and varied perspectives on fields of study. 7) Enabling collaboration between institutions, sectors, disciplines and countries.
I would have expected a more direct reference to serving students. Students being active participants, potentially creators of the content (knowledge) they are interacting with.
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Inquiry Learning Vs. Standardized Content: Can They Coexist?
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scripting.com scripting.com
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The feed is how stuff enters their content system. But the feed itself is outside, leaving it available for other services to use. It's great when this happens, rather than doing it via a WG that tend to go on for years, and create stuff that's super-complicated, why not design something that works for you, put it out there with no restrictions and let whatever's going to happen happen.
Interesting approach for hypothes.is to consider?
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Re-Envisioning Paulo Freire's "Banking Concept of Education"
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Sci-Hub: the debate continues
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Academic freedom is for students, too
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The power of open
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High academic journal prices justify sharing of illegal articles
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clintlalonde.net clintlalonde.net
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Framing our Open EdTech project
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www.tru.ca www.tru.ca
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The university must promote teaching excellence and the use of open learning methods
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hackeducation.com hackeducation.com
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We don’t know if content will be interoperable – that is, usable beyond the Amazon (Kindle) ecosystem – or if there’ll be integration with other software systems.
If not then it really wouldn't be truly "open."
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www.whitehouse.gov www.whitehouse.gov
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federally funded research publicly accessible are becoming the norm
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BC Open Textbook Authoring Guide
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bavatuesdays.com bavatuesdays.com
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the MLA Commons is built on top of Commons in a Box
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openedreader.org openedreader.org
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An Open Education Reader
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www.readability.com www.readability.com
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As I have mentioned in previous posts, several platforms have appeared recently that could take on this role of third-party reviewer. I could imagine at least: libreapp.org, peerevaluation.org, pubpeer.com, and publons.com. Pandelis Perakakis mentioned several others as well: http://thomas.arildsen.org/2013/08/01/open-review-of-scientific-literature/comment-page-1/#comment-9.
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hypothes.is hypothes.is
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A coalition of some of the world’s key scholarly publishers, platforms, libraries, and technology organizations
Important that academia is in this space. It's also important that annotations and connections can be open as this is how knowledge spreads and grows.
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reb.us reb.us
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REBUS Open Web Textbooks - A new project to build a collaborative system for open source textbooks.
https://twitter.com/hughmcguire<br> https://twitter.com/Bopuc
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medium.com medium.com
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What makes this more difficult to resolve is that GitHub is — surprise! — not open source. GitHub is closed source, meaning that only GitHub staff is able to make improvements to its platform.The irony of using a proprietary tool to manage open source projects, much like BitKeeper and Linux, has not been lost on everyone. Some developers refuse to put their code on GitHub to retain their independence. Linus Torvalds, the creator of Git himself, refuses to accept pull requests (code changes) from GitHub.
That's why I have advocated tools like Fossil to other members of our Hackerspace and other communities like Pharo or decentralized options to Mozilla Science (without much acceptation in the communities or even any reaction from Mozilla Science).
Going with the de facto and popular defaults (without caring about freedom or diversity) seems the position of open source/science communities and even digital activist, which contrast sharply with their discourse for the building of tools/data/politics, but seems invisible in the building of community/metadata/metapolitics.
The kind of disempowerment these communities are trying to fight, is the one they're suffering with GitHub, like showed here: https://hypothes.is/a/AVKjLddpvTW_3w8LyrU-
So there is a tension between the convenience and wider awareness/participation of centralized privative platforms that is wanted by these open/activist communities and a growth in the (over)use of the commons that is bigger that the growth of its sustainability/ethos, as shown here: https://hypothes.is/a/AVKjfsTRvTW_3w8LyrqI . Sacrificing growth/convenience by choosing simpler and more coherent infrastructures aligned with the commons and its ethos seems a sensible approach then.
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Technically, if you use someone else’s code revision from Stack Overflow, you would have to add a comment in your code that attributes the code to them. And then that person’s code would potentially have a different license from the rest of your code.Your average hobbyist developer might not care about the rules, but many companies forbid employees from using Stack Overflow, partly for this reason.As we enter a post open source world, Stack Overflow has explored transitioning to a more permissive MIT license, but the conversation hasn’t been easy. Questions like what happens to legacy code, and dual licensing for code and non-code contributions, have generated confusion and strong reactions.
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The free software generation had to think about licenses because they were taking a stance on what they were not (that is, proprietary software). The GitHub generation takes this right for granted. They don’t care about permissions. They default to open.Open source is so popular today that we don’t think of it as exceptional anymore. We’re so open source, that maybe we’re post open source:But not is all groovy in the land of post open source.
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www.techdirt.com www.techdirt.com
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"It comes down to what is the reason for our existence? It's to accelerate science, not to make money."
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Adapt an Existing Open Textbook
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www.readability.com www.readability.com
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Below I list a few advantages and drawbacks of anonymity where I assume that a drawback of anonymous review is an advantage of identified review and vice versa. Drawbacks Reviewers do not get credit for their work. They cannot, for example, reference particular reviews in their CVs as they can with publications. It is relatively “easy” for a reviewer to provide unnecessarily blunt or harsh critique. It is difficult to guess if the reviewer has any conflict of interest with the authors by being, for example, a competing researcher interested in stalling the paper’s publication. Advantages Reviewers do not have to fear “payback” for an unfavourable review that is perceived as unfair by the authors of the work. Some (perhaps especially “high-profile” senior faculty members) reviewers might find it difficult to find the time to provide as thorough a review as they would ideally like to, yet would still like to contribute and can perhaps provide valuable experienced insight. They can do so without putting their reputation on the line.
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www.readability.com www.readability.com
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With most journals, if I submit a paper that is rejected, that information is private and I can re-submit elsewhere. In open review, with a negative review one can publicly lose face as well as lose the possibility of re-submitting the paper. Won’t this be a significant disincentive to submit? This is precisely what we are trying to change. Currently, scientists can submit a paper numerous times, receive numerous negative reviews and ultimately publish their paper somewhere else after having “passed” peer review. If scientists prefer this system then science is in a dangerous place. By choosing this model, we as scientists are basically saying we prefer nice neat stories that no one will criticize. This is silly though because science, more often than not, is not neat and perfect. The Winnower believes that transparency in publishing is of the utmost importance. Going from a closed anonymous system to an open system will be hard for many scientists but I believe that it is the right thing to do if we care about the truth.
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PLOS Labs is working on establishing structured reviews and we have talked with them about this.
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It should be noted that papers will always be open for review so that a paper can accumulate reviews throughout its lifetime.
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chronicle.com chronicle.com
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I am hoping to change scholarly communication at all levels and I think transparency must be at the heart of this.
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While there are some features shared between a university repository and us we are distinctly different for the following reasons: We offer DOIs to all content published on The Winnower All content is automatically typeset on The Winnower Content published on the winnower is not restricted to one university but is published amongst work from peers at different institutions around the world Work is published from around the world it is more discoverable We offer Altmetrics to content Our site is much more visually appealing than a typical repository Work can be openly reviewed on The Winnower but often times not even commented on in repositories. This is not to say that repositories have no place, but that we should focus on offering authors choices not restricting them to products developed in house.
Over this tension/complementary between in house and external publishing platforms I wonder where is the place for indie web self hosted publishing, like the one impulsed by grafoscopio.
A reproducible structured interactive grafoscopio notebook is self contained in software and data and holds all its history by design. Will in-house solutions and open journals like The Winnower, RIO Journal or the Self Journal of Science, support such kinds of publishing artifacts?
Technically there is not a big barrier (it's mostly about hosting fossil repositories, which is pretty easy, and adding a discoverability and author layer on top), but it seems that the only option now is going to big DVCS and data platforms now like GitHub or datahub alike for storing other research artifacts like software and data, so it is more about centralized-mostly instead of p2p-also. This other p2p alternatives seem outside the radar for most alternative Open Access and Open Science publishers now.
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medium.com medium.com
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These 39 Sites Have Amazing Stock Photos You Can Use For Free
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blog.creativecommons.org blog.creativecommons.org
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We need to talk about sharing
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zenodo.org zenodo.org
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open Science
Die Auswirkungen des digitalen Wandels in der Forschung erforschr der Leibniz-Forschungsverbund Science 2.0. Die derzeit 37 Partner bearbeiten die Forschungsschwerpunkte „Neue Arbeitsgewohnheiten“, „Technologieentwicklung“ und „Nutzungsforschung“. Damit untrennbar verbunden sind die aktuellen Entwicklungen im Hinblick auf die Öffnung des gesamten Wissenschaftsprozesses oder Teilen davon („Open Science“)
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twitter.com twitter.com
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Scott Johnson tweeted a screen-capture of a message he received from academia.edu.
Would you be open to paying a small fee to submit any upcoming papers to our board of editors to be considered for recommendation? You'd only be charged if your paper was recommended.
Academia.edu founder Richard Price replied.
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www.edsurge.com www.edsurge.com
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Technologies that live within closed systems create roadblocks in students’ learning pathways.
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blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk
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What is Open Access?
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What the Open-Access Movement Doesn’t Want You to Know
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legacy.earlham.edu legacy.earlham.edu
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Open Access Overview
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campustechnology.com campustechnology.com
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Open Pedagogy: Connection, Community, and Transparency
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scripting.com scripting.com
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Nothing really interesting grows there. For that you need the wilds of -- the open web -- of course.
The walled garden vs the wildflower?
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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authors have pulled around 100 papers from Lingua and transferred them to Glossa
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“If I wanted to do it for the compensation, I would be better off using that time to flip burgers or go wash windows.”
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He refers to hybrid journals as “double-dipping journals” because they profit from both APCs and subscriptions.
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Publishing an open-access paper in a journal can be prohibitively expensive. Some researchers are drumming up support for a movement to change that
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www.stm-assoc.org www.stm-assoc.org
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Green OA and the role of repositories remain controversial. This is perhaps less the case for institutional repositories, than for subject repositories, especially PubMed Central. The lack of its own independent sustainable business model means Green OA depends on its not undermining that of (subscription) journals. The evidence remains mixed: the PEER project found that availability of articles on the PEER open repository did not negatively impact downloads from the publishers’s site, but this was contrary to the experience of publishers with more substantial fractions of their journals’ content available on the longer-established and better-known arXiv and PubMed Central repositories. The PEER usage data study also provided further confirmation of the long usage half-life of journal articles and its substantial variation between fields (suggesting the importance of longer embargo periods than 6–12 months, especially for those fields with longer usage half-lives). Green proponents for their part point to the continuing profitability of STM publishing, the lack of closures of existing journals and the absence of a decline in the rate of launch of new journals since repositories came online as evidence of a lack of impact to date, and hence as evidence of low risk of impact going forward. Many publishers’ business instincts tell them otherwise; they have little choice about needing to accept submissions from large funders such as NIH, but there has been some tightening of publishers’ Green policies (page 102).
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Gold open access based on APCs has a number of potential advantages. It would scale with the growth in research outputs, there are potential system-wide savings, and reuse is simplified. Research funders generally reimburse publication charges, but even with broad funder support the details regarding the funding arrangements within universities it remain to be fully worked out. It is unclear where the market will set OA publication charges: they are currently lower than the historical average cost of article publication; about 25% of authors are from developing countries;
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The APC model itself has become more complicated, with variable APCs (e.g. based on length), discounts, prepayments and institutional membership schemes, offsetting and bundling arrangements for hybrid publications, an individual membership scheme, and so on (page 91; 93).
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clintlalonde.net clintlalonde.net
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On weak ties and faculty OER research
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One thing that irritates me more than anything is the expectation people have to other people’s time, specifically open source project maintainers. They are not your tech support. They built a product you are using for free. You’re welcome.
I think the vast majority of open source users don't need to be told this. But it only takes a few jerks to regularly annoy someone.
Chris Patti added a good point. Even if you can't donate, you can send short thank-you emails. That should include anyone who makes something you find helpful or entertaining, whether it's software, open access books, MOOCs, tutorials, a blog, webcomics, videos, etc.
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medium.com medium.com
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The No. 1 Predictor Of Career Success According To Network Science
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www.whitehouse.gov www.whitehouse.gov
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So, my fellow Americans, whatever you may believe, whether you prefer one party or no party, our collective future depends on your willingness to uphold your obligations as a citizen. To vote. To speak out.
Absolutely, but it's government's job at all levels--from our hometowns to Washington, DC--to make it easier for citizens to do that. Far too many Americans simply can't fulfill many of these "obligations as a citizen," due to work, or kids or fear or lack of information, or school, basically, life. Government has to lower those barriers, make it way more possible for citizens to do their civic duties. There's a tremendous opportunity to deploy free, open source tools--heck, even proprietary ones--here.
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It doesn’t work if we think the people who disagree with us are all motivated by malice, or that our political opponents are unpatriotic. Democracy grinds to a halt without a willingness to compromise; or when even basic facts are contested, and we listen only to those who agree with us.
C'mon, civic technologists, government innovators, open data advocates: this can be a call to arms. Isn't the point of "open government" to bring people together to engage with their leaders, provide the facts, and allow more informed, engaged debate?
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It will only happen if we fix our politics. A better politics doesn’t mean we have to agree on everything. This is a big country, with different regions and attitudes and interests. That’s one of our strengths, too. Our Founders distributed power between states and branches of government, and expected us to argue, just as they did, over the size and shape of government, over commerce and foreign relations, over the meaning of liberty and the imperatives of security.
While technology doesn't solve everything, I firmly believe it has a critical role to play in fixing our politics. Better and easier ways for citizens to hold their government accountable, engage with their elected officials and each other, and way more exist. We're using one right now.
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That’s how we forged a Trans-Pacific Partnership to open markets, protect workers and the environment, and advance American leadership in Asia. It cuts 18,000 taxes on products Made in America, and supports more good jobs. With TPP, China doesn’t set the rules in that region, we do. You want to show our strength in this century? Approve this agreement. Give us the tools to enforce it.
An opportunity to employ online, open co-creation tools. Such as, say, Hypothes.is. Or what the D.C.'s Mayor Bowser and city council are doing with the Madison online policymaking software.
Back when this was still being negotiated in secret, a leaked chapter of TPP was opened on the very first version of Madison. What could've been as far as harnessing open online annotation for transparent, smarter policy outcomes.
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how do we make technology work for us, and not against us
This is a critical question for both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, and for every presidential candidate. But at least the President and Congressional leaders are talking about it--we've heard next to nothing from all the candidates for the White House, and next to nothing at all the debates.
I wonder: what happens to 18F, USDS, each agency's online engagement staff, etc. the day after a GOP candidate wins? What happens if the White House stays with Democrats? Beats me, and that's incredibly problematic.
Either way, Congress can and should also play a role in supporting--at least maintaining--the progress made on open source, adopting/creating better tech, outfits like 18F/USDS. Building out a Congressional-and-civil-society "tech transition survival" plan would be a great, bipartisan, bicameral project. I think it's also fully within the realm of possibility.
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Supporting Open Textbook Adoption in British Columbia
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For hundreds of years, the most important tools of humanistsand social scientists were pen or brush and paper. Today, scholars require a range of digital tools for research,teaching, and writing, including tools for finding, filtering and reviewing, processing and organizing, anno-tating, analyzing, and visualizing digital information. Even though we can point to current efforts in many ofthese areas, lack of coordination among them is a problem: a great deal of tool building is done on a localscale, and this results in unnecessary redundancy of effort.1
Another great line about the importance of open standards.
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As NSFdirector Ardent L. Bement, Jr., observes, “with today's electrical grid. . . my neighbor and I can use differentappliances to meet our individual needs; as long as the appliances conform to certain electrical standards,they will work reliably,” and a sufficiently advanced cyberinfrastructure will work similarly: researchers willhave “easy access to the computing, communication, and information resources they need, while pursuingdifferent avenues of interest using different tools.”92
Helpful analogy for thinking about importance of open standards/interoperability.
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Access to data should be seamless across repositories. This will require standards-based tools and metadatathat ensure interoperability and enable use for a variety of purposes.
Open standards written into recommendations.
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7. Develop and maintain open standards and robust tools.
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www.lanthorn.com www.lanthorn.com
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Open Education Resources provide cheaper textbook alternative
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Kent C. Dodds shares some ideas about making open source projects friendly to new contributors. He starts with the obvious things: provide guides and good documentation. He suggests adding labels that make beginner-friendly issues easy to find. One idea that was new to me: Write the specification and tests for a new feature, then let someone else implement it.
How getting into open source has been awesome for me<br> What open source project should I contribute to?
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anthonydilaura.wordpress.com anthonydilaura.wordpress.com
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massive advances in Open Educational Resources
Some may be surprised to hear about OERs in a post about proprietary technology, especially since this was before iBooks Author allowed the creation of ePUB3 books.
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matthewlincoln.net matthewlincoln.net
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Guidelines for publishing GLAM data (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) on GitHub. It applies to publishing any kind of data anywhere.
- Document the schema of the data.
- Make the usage terms and conditions clear.
- Tell people how to report issues.<br> Or, tell them that they're on their own.
- Tell people whether you accept pull requests (user-contributed edits and additions), and how.
- Tell people how often the data will be updated, even if the answer is "sporadically" or "maybe never".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Knowledge<br> http://openglam.org/faq/
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pressblog.uchicago.edu pressblog.uchicago.edu
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one wonders about the relationships between scholarship, technology, and the academic institution that engendered that turn from printing materials to printing ideas.
One sure does.
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www.talkingnewmedia.com www.talkingnewmedia.com
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export books as apps
On top of the whole debate between native apps and the Open Web, there’s a debate between apps and books. We might not reach the “Write Once, Publish Everywhere” dream, but there’s something to be said about having building blocks which are easy to adapt to different contexts.
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www.openstaxcollege.org www.openstaxcollege.org
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Introduction to Sociology 2e
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5 key lessons learned through the B.C. Open Textbook Project
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freakonomics.com freakonomics.com
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I think it’s very much analogous to whether a family would want to take them in.
It is not at all analogous. There is no moral basis for thinking that someone should have the right to enter a family, while their is plenty of reason to think that people ought to have freedom of movement.
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mfeldstein.com mfeldstein.com
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Support for Creative Commons
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content (or “learning resources”)
Some might argue that the problem with OERs and Open Content is this same focus on content.
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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“What we’re seeing is that the general public wants to read scholarly papers.”
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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Steelcase & GVSU
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Stanford d.school
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opennessinitiative.org opennessinitiative.org
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We believe that openness and transparency are core values of science. For a long time, technological obstacles existed preventing transparency from being the norm. With the advent of the internet, however, these obstacles have largely disappeared. The promise of open research can finally be realized, but this will require a cultural change in science. The power to create that change lies in the peer-review process.
We suggest that beginning January 1, 2017, reviewers make open practices a pre-condition for more comprehensive review. This is already in reviewers’ power; to drive the change, all that is needed is for reviewers to collectively agree that the time for change has come.
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Series of webinars on the pedagogy of Web annotation.
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www.literacyworldwide.org www.literacyworldwide.org
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the major governing body of the Internet
Well… The World Wide Web Consortium is really about governing the Web, not the whole Internet. But we do tend to forget that there’s more to the Net than the Web.
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www.timeshighereducation.com www.timeshighereducation.com
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Dutch universities and Elsevier reach deal over open access
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code.facebook.com code.facebook.com
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In addition to the improved performance, Big Sur is far more versatile and efficient than the off-the-shelf solutions in our previous generation. While many high-performance computing systems require special cooling and other unique infrastructure to operate, we have optimized these new servers for thermal and power efficiency, allowing us to operate them even in our own free-air cooled, Open Compute standard data centers.
Facebook's Open Compute Project releases open-source hardware designs created with energy efficiency and ease of maintenance as priorities.
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www.davidson.edu www.davidson.edu
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Faculty Stipends for Open Educational Resources and Open Pedagogy
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ubyssey.ca ubyssey.ca
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BCcampus estimates that students have saved nearly $1 million dollars already on textbook costs thanks to open textbooks.
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support.vitalsource.com support.vitalsource.com
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The EDUPUB Initiative VitalSource regularly collaborates with independent consultants and industry experts including the National Federation of the Blind (NFB), American Foundation for the Blind (AFB), Tech For All, JISC, Alternative Media Access Center (AMAC), and others. With the help of these experts, VitalSource strives to ensure its platform conforms to applicable accessibility standards including Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Accessibility Guidelines established by the Worldwide Web Consortium known as WCAG 2.0. The state of the platform's conformance with Section 508 at any point in time is made available through publication of Voluntary Product Accessibility Templates (VPATs). VitalSource continues to support industry standards for accessibility by conducting conformance testing on all Bookshelf platforms – offline on Windows and Macs; online on Windows and Macs using standard browsers (e.g., Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari); and on mobile devices for iOS and Android. All Bookshelf platforms are evaluated using industry-leading screen reading programs available for the platform including JAWS and NVDA for Windows, VoiceOver for Mac and iOS, and TalkBack for Android. To ensure a comprehensive reading experience, all Bookshelf platforms have been evaluated using EPUB® and enhanced PDF books.
Could see a lot of potential for Open Standards, including annotations. What’s not so clear is how they can manage to produce such ePub while maintaining their DRM-focused practice. Heard about LCP (Lightweight Content Protection). But have yet to get a fully-accessible ePub which is also DRMed in such a way.
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www.openannotation.org www.openannotation.org
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h.readthedocs.org h.readthedocs.org
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arxiv.org arxiv.org
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W3C welcomes technical feedback on its Web Annotation specifications
This feedback process is key. The barrier to entry can be pretty high, but the effects may be felt widely.
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public review of all of our specifications
Former Web Platform DevOps Renoir Boulanger had nice things to say about Kardell’s Chapters.io.
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Continuity with Web 2.0, emphasis on content. Though the coalition is forward-looking, there’s something of a timestamp on this wording.
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