Focus Group – Graduate Students’ Voice – Open Access Week Questions
Focus Group – Graduate Students’ Voice – Open Access Week
10/15/2011
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Question |
Time Estimate |
| – What is your favorite news website? |
5 mins |
| – Is this site open to the public? Does the site being open play a role in whether or not you access it? |
5 mins |
| – To what extent are journal articles accessible for university students and individuals throughout society in general? |
5 mins |
| – List or Map – How do you define open, in terms of information? What qualities would you include in what it is to be open?
(Questions written for everyone to see. They are then asked to circle or tell us the quality that best describes “open” for them) |
15 mins
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| – When you think of an open access journal? What quality is the most important? |
5 mins |
| – You have three choices… free open journals, open journals where you have to pay to submit, journals where individuals or institutions need to purchase articles, which one would you choose and why? |
Exercise – Compound interest, Discounting, Annualization and Present Value
EDPA 5521
October 12, 2011
PROBLEM SET #2: Compound interest, discounting, annualization and present value
- Rather than pay you $100 a month for the next 20 years, the person who injured you in an automobile accident is willing to pay a single amount now to settle your claim for injuries. Would you rather an interest rate of 5% or 10% be used in computing the present value of the lump-sum settlement? Comment or explain. To calculate the present value of this stream of payments, use the formula in the textbook on page 93. Each payment of $1200 per year must be discounted by the appropriate factor. See #6, below, for an example. The most common error is to discount the entire set of $24,000 payments by the discount factor that is appropriate for the $1200 payments in year 20. This is clearly not appropriate, since the $24,000 payments are spread out over 20 years and each year’s payments must be discounted separately, by the appropriate discount factor.
Open Access Pledge
Open Access Pledge
… We hereby:
Call upon universities to support Open Access
- We believe universities should adopt policies that ensure Open Access to their faculty’s research, such as the policies adopted at Harvard University and Stanford University.
Call upon governments and research funders to support Open Access
- We believe research agencies should adopt policies that ensure Open Access to publicly funded research, such as that of the National Institutes of Health and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
- We believe charitable funders likewise should adopt policies that ensure Open Access to their funded research, such as that of Autism Speaks and the Canadian Cancer Society.
Call upon researchers to support Open Access
- We believe researchers should publish in Open Access journals, and/or deposit their peer-reviewed manuscripts in Open Access repositories.
Commit to support Open Access in our activities
- We will undertake activities, in our membership and on our campuses, to educate students about Open Access and to engage them in efforts supporting Open Access.
CEHD Graduate Student Opinions about Open Access Journals and Open Content
CEHD Graduate Student Opinions about Open Access Journals and Open Content
October 29, 2011
Thank you for your participation in this online focus group session. Your responses are very helpful in understanding the opinions of graduate students at the University of Minnesota regarding open access journals and open content. Below there is a brief report based on your comments. If you feel this report misrepresents the group’s opinions you can email me at sintj002@umn.edu and express your concerns. The report is organized by the questions and the day in which they were posted, and it concludes with a brief synopsis as well as a list of suggestions about possible next steps to follow.
What Are Your Sources of Information? (Day 1 Summary)
In general, graduate students seem to primarily access sources of information that are available to them because they are graduate students at the University of Minnesota. While access is important to them, and most of the news sources they access are open to the public (NPR, CNN, or the open sections of the NYT), they felt that, as university students, they were able to access most of what they wanted at present.…
Strangled Essay – October 10, 2011 (Immigration)
Strangled Essay – October 10, 2011
Immigration Essay
Strangled, asphyxiated, your imagination should run free but your body lies in chains. Asymmetries everywhere surround you. To speak not only endangers you but also other ones that supported you. A PhD program should be empowering, and in many ways it is. I am a lucky one. Since the moment I was born I been lucky. My parents are together, and I don’t have any major complains. Yet, the American dream has been hard to obtain. I have been here most of my life, back home or here, I feel foreign in both states. Does the sign now really read no vacancies? I grew up reading the promise of America to the rest of the world. A beacon of light sat at top of a hill. A place of freedom where aristocracies had been abolished and social mobility was a clear possibility. I would love to contribute to this country, a country that I grew up believing in, it was constructed upon an idea of a civil rather than ethnic identity, where you were not defined by the color of your skin, your background, your culture, but rather by your desire to uphold the constitution and further the belief in a representative democracy where all man are created free and are endowed with unalienable rights.…
Camtasia 7 Tutorial – Presentation
Camtasia 7 Tutorial – Presentation
October 10, 2011
Discussion
What was your experience like recording lectures with Camtasia?
I what ways did you find Camtasia limiting?
Overview
– Recording a PowerPoint presentation
- Pausing the recording (Ctrl+Shift+F9)
- Stopping the recording (Ctrl+Shift+F10)
– Editing a PowerPoint – Camtasia recording
- Timeline – How does it work!
- Different tracks
- Zooming in and out
- Playing and editing a section
- Adding additional resources
– Editing sounds
ChannelTechSmith
– How to use the PowerPoint Add-in Toolbar with Camtasia Studio 7
1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqe7GDdwQPI&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL281AA340A022BDEB
– How to set Editing Dimensions and Save Project in Camtasia Studio 7
– How to Cut and Split using Markers in Camtasia Studio 7
– How to use Markers to Create a Table of Contents in Camtasia Studio 7
– How to use Audio Enhancements in Camtasia Studio 7
– How to produce your Camtasia Studio 7 Videos.…
Sophia.org – A Collaborative Learning Environment -“Teach What You Know, Learn What You Dont”
Sophia.org – A Collaborative Learning Environment –“Teach What You Know, Learn What You Dont”
October 6, 2011
Project Part A – EdPA 5501
Procedures Used to Collect Information: Most of this information was gathered from the Sophia.org website as well as from a one hour meeting with Dr. Angie Eilers, the Vice-President for Academic Outcomes for Sophia.org. Additional information was obtained from listening to recorded interviews of Don Smithmier, founder and CEO of Sophia.org, as well as a number of press releases.
Program Rationale/Philosophy: Sophia.org emphasizes the need to instruct students taking into consideration students’ different learning modalities. Unlike previous generations, today’s youth have grown up in a more interrelated and interconnected world, having access to personal computers, mobile phones, and the Internet. Today’s “digital natives” are used to consuming, and sometimes producing, different types of media. Some of them prefer to learn through the use of audio visuals. As technology plays a greater role in society, students stand to benefit greatly from learning how to use technology effectively.…
List of Questions – Wikieducator Interviews
List of Questions – Wikieducator Interviews
September 28, 2011
Thank you for deciding to contribute to this study. Below are some of the questions that we may discuss during the interview. The interview will be semi-structured and I am also interested in learning from you what you consider relevant. Feel free to expand on any point or make suggestions about other areas to explore. These questions are only an outline of potential topics. The questions will be refined and modified after a predetermined number of interviews to better address relevant issues. Some of the questions will not be addressed due to time constrains and availability.
Thank you for your collaboration,
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Alfonso Sintjago
How and when did you first become involved with OER? How has your involvement with OER changed over time? What attracts you the most about OER?
If the answer is different from the previous question, how and when did you first become involved with Wikieducator.org…
SSW – What Should be the Tech Initiative Next Year (9.27.2011)
SSW – What Should be the Tech Initiative Next Year (9.27.2011)
– Choice: What is your favorite technology? What technology makes your day better, makes you smile, or you cannot easily live without? What technology you do not like and/or impacts you in a negative way?
– What is technology to you? Does it include non-tangible objects or concepts such as democracy, bureaucracy? Thinking broadly about technology, how does it impact the classroom and the university?
– What technological skills do you believe a productive individual, or a well prepared social worker needs to be comfortable with using in the 21st century work environment?
– What level of sophistication should students have with technology by the time they leave college? How do we help them get there?
– What technological skills should faculty have? What services should be provided to help them get there?
– What is your opinion of the movement towards transferring some course modules from face to face learning to online learning?…
Student Perception of Open Access and OER
Introduction to Focus Groups – Based on Krueger (2009)
Student Perception of Open Access and OER
9/24/2011
Topic
The Copyright of Educational Resources in the Current Society
Welcome
“Good morning everyone. Thank you for coming here today and taking the time to join our discussion of use and copyright of educational resources. My name is Alfonso Sintjago and I am a current graduate student at the University of Minnesota hoping to better understand what current technological developments mean for the future of education.”
Overview of the Topic
“As access to computers and the internet become increasingly ubiquitous in society, and increasingly impact education, it is important for researcher to know how the internet is being used by both teachers and students. By better understanding how the information available on the internet is used in the classroom, we can better formulate guidelines about best practices, and understand some of the conflicts educators are having as a result of the growing use of information and communications technologies in education”
“You were invited because of your experiences both as a student and a teacher using modern information and communication technologies.…
