Nick Sheppard has a new post on linking research papers to open educational resources. From the post:
With such an approach, is there perhaps an opportunity to tie research and OER more closely together at an institutional level (if this isn’t politically naive!) and contribute to research led teaching?
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The Guardian has a new post on the need for attribution in open science. From the post:
Basically, scientists are only as good as their ideas, and even though ideas may be ephemeral, the credit for those ideas is not. Credit gets jobs, keeps jobs, gets funding, attracts students and bestows respect and international standing in the community.
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Ben Wieder has a new post reporting on a study that indicates open access does not increase citations. From the post:
Mr. Davis suggests that this may be because access is not a problem for most researchers who would cite the articles in their own work.
Also covered on the Science 2.0 blog.
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Kathy Kowalenko has a new post the IEEE’s plan towards open access. From the post:
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The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning has published a new issue specifically focused on Connectivism.
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Paul Jump has published an article on green OA as “electronic buckets”. From the post:
…repositories are essentially “electronic buckets” with no quality control. He also expressed doubts that the academy would be able to successfully introduce peer review to such repositories, partly because it would be difficult to attract reviewers who had no “brand allegiance” to the repositories.
Link and commentary by Leslie Carr.
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Dean Giustini has a new post pointing to the Open Medicine Live Wiki. From the post:
Knowledge is dynamic and a wiki is a publishing tool that truly reflects that. Our hope is that this manuscript will evolve as our knowledge evolves and, ultimately, be improved by contributions directly from our readers to our authors.
S. Ramesh has a new post on open source tools for data mining. From the post:
But the faculty members and students in many of the colleges are finding it difficult to get access to data mining tools to learn and practice, as many of the software are proprietary. However, there are a quite a few good open source data mining tools are available, which can be downloaded and used free of cost.
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George Siemens has a new post defening Massive Open Online Courses as research. From the post:
What’s happening with open courses (MOOCs)? Essentially, we’re in a period of research. Together with course participants, we are generating data – we are trying to make sense of phenomena. In a traditional research setting, a researcher doesn’t ask practical or application questions when trying to understand “what something is”.
Also, Alan Levine has a new post discussing each part of the MOOC acronym.
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Gary Hall has a new post on the limits of openness. From the post:
The requirement to have visibility, to show up in the metrics, to be measurable, nowadays encourages researchers to publish a lot and frequently. So much so that the peer-reviewed academic journal article has been positioned by some as having now assumed ‘a single central value, not that of bringing something new to the field but that of assessing the person’s research, with a view to hiring, promotion, funding, and, more and more, avoiding termination.’
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