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Scholarly publishing is broken. Here’s how to fix it
By Jon Dron 3 July 2018 @ 6:13pm Comments (1)aeon.co - An article for Aeon by Jon Tennant on the heinous state of affairs that gives unscrupulous publishers profit margins that put Apple to shame while hiding publicly funded research from the public that pays for it. It is a shamefully broken system...Mona Lisa Overfixed
By Mark A. McCutcheon August 24, 2012 - 8:22pmI assured a friend he wasn't too late for the Spanish art restoration meme.Documenting scholarly blogging for promotion and tenure
By Mark A. McCutcheon January 22, 2013 - 2:55pm Comments (6)When I applied for promotion and tenure I made a note to myself that, if successful, I would post the application's documentation of scholarly blogging,which I included as its own section (since this work doesn't clearly fit teaching, research, or...Instructional quality of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
By Jon Dron 18 November 2014 @ 11:34am Comments (4)www.sciencedirect.com - This is a very interesting, if (I will argue) flawed, paper by Margaryan, Bianco and Littlejohn using a Course Scan instrument to examine the instructional design qualities of 76 randomly selected MOOCs (26 cMOOCs and 50 xMOOCs - the imbalance was...Vinux Project
By Viorel Tabara 9 July 2015 @ 10:25pmPosted to group: Open Source Softwarehttp://vinuxproject.org/ - Backtrace: http://wiki.vinuxproject.org/alpine_mutt From home page: Vinux is a Ubuntu derived distribution optimised for the needs of blind and partially sighted users. By default Vinux provides two screen-readers, Braille display support and a...Scraping Google Scholar to write your PhD literature chapter
By Jon Dron 13 October 2016 @ 4:50pm Comments (2)mystudentvoices.com - This looks really excellent - it scrapes Google Scholar, starting with a search that reveals work you already know about and that you think is significant. From those search results it generates an exportable Gephi map of authors,...Its official as of November 14, 2018 - CALL TO ACTION
By Steve Swettenham November 15, 2018 - 3:35am Comments (1)CDE non-repUnit 2: Food for Thought
Started by Gregory McDonald September 19, 2022 - 10:17am Replies (8) Last reply by Abeba Yitbarek October 8, 2022 - 12:19pmFood for thought for Unit 2 (as copied from the Instructor's Notebook): 1. How much do you personally trust the various search engines? What are some of the benefits of a popular search engine? What are some of the pitfalls. 2. Describe the...
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