A problem with educational research publishing is that most of the most highly rated peer-reviewed journals are closed access, and though most are accessible to me through our library, I […]
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Category: Open Scholarship
One Small Step for Athabasca
I participated in an interesting meeting of the Athabasca University Academic Council (our senate equivalent) this morning and the most contentious item concerned our option for ‘challenge for credit” alternative, […]
The Publish or Perish Book
Well, after surviving end of term marking, coupled with two online keynotes and a real f2F one at Canadian MoodelMoot I’ve finally found some time to skim through two books that […]
Lisbon 2011
Wow, its back to the future for me this week. I haven’t been doing face-2-face lectures for years, but this week is campus all over again. I was honoured to […]
Quality of Open Educational Resources
Tony Bates opened the preverbial can of worms, when he dared to talk about the good, bad and ugly of OER’s in a recent post. We’ve found trying to orchestrate debates on […]
AuPress to expand open access online lea...
I am a big supporter of Open Access presses – largely because they serve potential readers without means or capacity to purchase books and as importantly, because they increase the readership […]
Open Access Week
Here at Athabasca University, we are lining up a series of free, noon-hour webcasting events to celebrate, educate and extend interest and participation in scholarly Open Access activities. This the second annual celebration is […]
Slides from Open Access Publishing Semin...
I’m attending the 26th annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning here in Madison. This is my 3rd time at this conference and it is a large, mostly practionaire orientated […]
The Power of Pull
John Hagel and John Seely Brown have come out with yet another in their blockbuster best seller series on innovation, that I found quite enlightening. The book (with 3rd author Lang Davison) […]
Ongoing Saga of an Open Access Book
Readers of this blog will remember that I published the results from the first year of sales and downloads of the book I edited, the Theory and Practice of Online […]