The Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings (aka the Finch group) of the Research Information Network just released a report recommending that open access to scholarly publishings was the best method to increase access : The internet has brought much better access to research results for members of the academic community. But the […] Lire la suite

I recently blogged about Jim Duderstadt’s opening plenary talk at the Spring 2012 Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) – well it seems that the report he mentions is now available on the National Academies Committee on the Future of the Research University website. Lire la suite

As I mention on Culturelibre.ca (my other blog), Jennifer Howard writes on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s «Wired Campus» blog about the very interesting report dealing with ebook publishing strategies by University presses in the USA. Lire la suite

The Association of College & Research Libraries has just released an updated bersion of its Characteristics of programs of information literacy that illustrate best practices: A guideline. Lire la suite

Worth a read: this survey of open education resources from C&RL News. It lists course initiatives, curriculum sources, databases of objects, etc. Lire la suite

This is a quick search on the topic of open access books. See this panel on publishing your academic book in 2009 from University Affairs (not strictly speaking about open access). Trade association: SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition of the ARL) It seems this association is moving into exploring models for books or […] Lire la suite

Stephen Laster, Chief Information Officer, Harvard Business School, delivers his Viewpoint in the most receny Educause Review. Insisting on the dire financial situation of students and Universities alike, he stresses that technology offers an opportunity to solve these issues. The Learning Management Systems (LMS) as a plat-form or in the cloud…. Other articles present the […] Lire la suite

A colleague of mine told me about Eric Mazur‘s Peer Instruction (PI) technique, recently presented at Dawson College in Montréal. Professor Mazur teaches physics at Harvard and is also keenly interested in the effectiveness of teaching methods, such as peer instruction or just in time learning. Lire la suite

Here are short bibliographies generated from Library sources. EBSCO’s Business Source Complete from peer-reviewed journals. The search query was simply for the terms “video games” industry. I picked the most interesting that touched upon “indie games” or labour issues for the past 5 years, 7 articles from about the first 40 hits. Title: Under the […] Lire la suite

The Guardian’s Higher Ed blog has an interesting piece on “digital literacy” in the university classroom. Beyond skills, the post covers specific ideas from engaged faculty. For example, Sue Thomas, professor of new media, De Montfort University has this to say about transliteracy: Digital literacy as an important part of transliteracy: Transliteracy is the ability […] Lire la suite