Introduction Focus Group Study – Open Access Journals – Perceptions and Concerns
Introduction – Focus Group Study
Open Access Journals – Perceptions and Concerns
September 24, 2011
I hope you are having a good day. Thank you for coming here today and taking the time to join our discussion of open access journals (OAJ) and open content (OC). My name is Alfonso Sintjago and I am a current graduate student at the University of Minnesota. I am hoping to better understand the concerns of graduate students regarding Open Access Journals and the role graduate students feel they play in society, in the future of academia and their own research.
As society becomes increasingly interconnected through the increased use of modern information communication technologies (ICT) and the cost of access to journals increases for universities and individuals, various educational organizations, researchers, and publishing companies have taken the initiative and changed their revenue model to increase access to society at large (to anyone with internet access).…
What do scholars consider…. increasingly technology-oriented global ecology?
What do scholars consider to be the major world-wide education; and
development implications of an increasingly technology-oriented global ecology?
September 09, 2011
It is hard to ignore that we live in an increasingly interconnected world. With collaboration between individuals living anywhere on the planet using technologies that are increasingly accessible to most of the population, the rate of knowledge production and innovation has increased in recent years (Kelly, 2010; Kurzweil, 2005). Few would have imagined the extensive impact that modern information communication technologies (ICTs) such as the Internet, personal computers, and mobile phones have had in such a short time span (Jenkins, 2008). Nor would many have predicted that social networks built through technologies such as Twitter or Facebook would impact the political landscape of the Middle East, ousting deeply entrenched militaristic leaders. While new ICTs are spreading throughout the world, they are also becoming ever more invisible (Cobo & Moravec, 2011), as the young increasingly have a hard time imagining a world without them.…
Innovation DramaTech Exercises – 10/07/2010
Innovation DramaTech Exercises – 10/07/2010
Innovation Dramatech Practice Exercise #1
Time Frame: Recent Future
The Location: The Dominican Republic
The Stakeholders: Ministry of Education, Minister, Staff, Dominican Government.
Your Innovation Proposal:
-Pilot Project: Provide laptops to every child on twenty five different K-12 schools
-Create an online national education website where students can access freeware and shareware educational games, their emails accounts (through a partnership with Google), and a safe environment in which to network with other students across the country (through a partnership with Facebook or another major social network provider).
-Install 250 “Hole-In-The-Wall” type kiosks across the country. More will be installed as the program continues with the goal of having hundreds across the Dominican Republic.
-Have a national competition where the best math students receive augmented reality devices, including “sixth sense” devices.
-Develop mobile learning software (There are as many cellular phones as there are people in the Dominican Republic) Mobile software development will originally focus on language teaching software.
What do IT Fellows Need to Know?
What Do IT Fellows Need to Know?
Updated 07/25/11
You can use this as a general training/reference guide.
Moodle 1.9
https://moodle.umn.edu/
General
- Manually giving students access to the site
- Specifying course site settings
Content management
- Uploading/deleting files
- Creating links to files on the Homepage
- Organizing files
Forums:
- Designing & building discussion threads
Groups:
- Creating groups for discussion forums
- Using Groupings feature to separate multiple course sections in one site
- Separating a site with multiple course sections into groups by section
Quizzes: –
- Uploading a single file, online text, advance uploading, and offline
- Setting up a quiz/quiz options
- Adding random questions
- Grading objective quiz questions
- Grading essay questions manually (this isn’t very common)
Gradebook:
- Setting grade book settings
- Adding an activity to grade book and entering grades
- Entering grades via the activity interface/directly into the grade book
- Methods of aggregating/sum, simple weighted mean, and weighted mean of grads
- Using extra credit in grade book
- Setting personal viewing preferences
Moodle transition from 1.9 to 2.0
http://www.oit.umn.edu/moodle/transition/…
Wikieducator.org – OER Online Community – An Online Community Ethnography
Wikieducator.org – OER[YUN1] Online Community – An Online Community Ethnography
May 11, 2011
Increasingly interacting with digital media, spending thousands of hours watching television, surfing the internet, or playing video games, an ever growing number of individuals can be considered digital natives or digital immigrants (Prensky, 2010; Tapscott, 2008). As a result of this recent change, it is important to understand how these interactions affect individuals living in our time and space, their cognitive abilities and what it all means for the youth of tomorrow. These are among some of the topics that have recently risen to challenge the modern ethnographer. The rapid technological change witnessed by societies in recent years has led to an increasing disconnection between generations. Phrases such as the Net Generation, Digital Natives, or Google Generation are surfacing regularly in popular news channels and have been the subject of recent publications (Tapscott, 2008; Prensky, 2010; Rowlands, et al.,…
UNESCO – Abel Caine (Interview) – Spring 2011
UNESCO – Abel Caine (Interview) – Spring 2011
Hi Mr. Caine, How are you doing today?
I am good. Just call me Abel. The interview can be CC-BY
When did you first become involved with Open Education Resources? How has your involvement changed over time? What attracts you the most about Open Education Resources?
Very easily, I first came across the term two years ago. Secondly, nothing has changed from my program just very briefly here at UNESCO we had a very long association with OER. It was at UNESCO in 2002 that the term OER was created, in a global forum here at UNESCO, 2002. For the first 9 years, the role of UNESCO was just awareness. Lots and lots of physical events as well as online events to spread awareness of OER, the meaning of OER as well as global perspectives and then about 2 years ago. Sorry all of that work for 8 or 9 years was being done by Susan Anthony.
The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart
The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart (March, 7 2011)
Ruth Behar. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996. xii, 195 pp. S18.00.
Ruth Behar’s The Vulnerable Observer is an illustrative and personal book that a reader is likely to remember. Respected as a young Hispanic poet, Behar has, through her writings, questioned traditional anthropological methods (Behar, 2005). By blending art and science, Behar opens her life and its climatic moments to the reader. Behar’s book illustrates some of the philosophical conclusions she reached through her research projects and life experiences. She reminds us that writing is both personal and political (Hanisch, 1970). When selecting variables to study or determining what to observe, an individual also selects what will not be studied. Site-based research is often influenced by the presence of the researcher in the site of study.
To increase objectivity, and increase their research validity, classical anthropologists have tended to separate themselves from the object of study (Crick, 1989).
Motivational Videos – OER – CI5323 Assignment – Week 6
Motivational Videos – OER – CI5323 Assignment – Week 6
February 23, 2011
As part of a UMN Class, I recently had to send to the instructor a motivational video for week 6 of the course. The course online learning communities is taught by Cassie Scharber and has been an interesting experience.
– Steve Johnson: “Where Good Ideas Come From”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU&w=640&h=390]
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU (Riverheadview) – Looks like an RSA Animate
– Tim Berners-Lee: The year open data went worldwide
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YcZ3Zqk0a8&w=640&h=390]
> http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/tim_berners_lee_the_year_open_data_went_worldwide.html (TED Talk – Short – 6 mins)
Together these videos symbolize how we can all benefit from the growth of Open Education Resources, not only could individuals anywhere in the world obtain access to high quality educational materials, increase lifelong learning and perhaps help some individuals with limited financial means to obtain a university degree, but how the development of OER can also contribute to worldwide innovation.
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Other videos by Steven Johnson:
Online Learning Communities – Week 3
Online Learning Communities – Week 3
February 7, 2011
1) Quotes:
a) The use of online communities such as Second Life for the delivery of online classes may change this picture, however, by providing “noisier” spaces that make use of graphic three-dimensional avatars and voice, as well as the use of text. (Read more at location 790 – Kindle)
- Note: How does the ability to change your image regularly change how others interact with a person and how will it change a person’s behavior? Will individuals within an online community be colorless and be judged more by the context of their character than by the appearance?
b) So if conflict is not such a bad thing, and if it is necessary in order to achieve group cohesiveness and intimacy, why do so many fear it and attempt to avoid it, especially in the online medium? And how do we as educators establish norms and procedures for resolving conflict in this virtual community of online learning?
Online Communities Week 3 – Response
Online Communities Week 3
2/7/2011
1) Quotes:
a) The use of online communities such as Second Life for the delivery of online classes may change this picture, however, by providing “noisier” spaces that make use of graphic three-dimensional avatars and voice, as well as the use of text. (Read more at location 790 – Kindle)
– Note: How does the ability to change your image regularly change how others interact with a person and how will it change a person’s behavior? Will individuals within an online community be colorless and be judged more by the context of their character than by the appearance?
b) So if conflict is not such a bad thing, and if it is necessary in order to achieve group cohesiveness and intimacy, why do so many fear it and attempt to avoid it, especially in the online medium? And how do we as educators establish norms and procedures for resolving conflict in this virtual community of online learning?…
