Danah Boyd joined the call for reforming how academics publish their work by calling for a boycott of non-open-access journals …and, provided a list of suggestions on what needs to be done now: Tenured Faculty and Industry Scholars: Publish only in open-access journals. Disciplinary associations: Help open-access journals gain traction. Tenure committees: Recognize alternate venues [...]
"The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school."
-George Bernard Shaw
Archive for February, 2008
Online Education: Innovation or Illusion?
2/6/2008
Education Futures readers in Minnesota are invited to join us for the next Horizon Forum meeting! Online Education: Innovation or Illusion? Facilitated by Jeffrey Schulz Friday, February 22 11:00am – 1:00pm Arthur Upson Room, Walter Library (University of Minnesota East Bank) As online education continues to explode at all school levels, many questions arise. Is [...]
Mapping the Open Paradigm
2/5/2008
Ismael Peña-López has created a mind map of an “Open Paradigm” that explores the properties of open sccess, open science, open educational resources, open source software, etc. As always, he invites comments, suggestions, etc.!
Getting smart about books
2/4/2008
As a follow-up to last week’s posts by Ai Takeuchi with Japanese perspectives on global education, I wanted to comment on Steve Jobs’ claim that nobody reads books anymore –and counter his claim by pointing out that books are alive and well in Japan because the Japanese are embracing the distribution possibilities provided by new [...]
Evolutionary form of U-I collaboration – “Toyota University”
2/1/2008
Since I wrote about university-industry collaboration for the past two entries, I would like to introduce an evolutionary form of this collaboration for my last guest blogging. Toyota Technological Institute, usually known by its nickname “Toyota University”, was established in Toyota-city, Nagoya-prefecture, in 1981 as a social contribution by the Toyota Motor Corporation. TTI’s Nagoya campus offers undergraduate [...]
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