[5 enlaces][5 links] LCDS, Science 2.0, Web 2.0, Open Access y Blackboard

Hoy continuamos con nuestra sección de [5 enlaces][5 links] en este caso con un variadito en inglés..

1) The Learning Content Development System (LCDS) de Microsoft.

2) Science2.0: it’s coming… en Erik Duval’s Weblog Learning Objects, Metadata, Interoperability and … me!

Snowflake science is beginning to enter mainstream! A workshop on 18 June calls it research2.0. As they say:

Grid-based, heavy-weight computing infrastructures, driven as they largely have been by the needs of researchers requiring High Performance Computing or High Throughput Computing, do not necessarily address the different needs of scientists across the full range of research areas and disciplines. Consequently, what we now observe is a ‘grass roots’ led appropriation by these latter groups of more flexible, lightweight, easily configurable and rapidly deployable technologies originating from the Web sphere.

3) The Future of Web 2.0. An interview with WSU’s Gary Brown By Mary Grush en Campus Technology

As director of Washington State University’s Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology, Gary Brown has stewarded the acceptance and growth of online learning, forged faculty development programs for early adopters and laggards alike, and struggled with the issues of assessment and accountability. But Brown sees more comprehensive changes ahead, especially as Web 2.0 technologies become widespread.

4) Open Access directory en EduResources Weblog–Higher Education Resources Online

5) Cal State System Raises Accessibility Concerns over Blackboard Online Learning Management System en Online learning update.

The 23-campus California State University system with more than 400,000 students has determined that accessibility issues with the current versions of the Blackboard learning management system preclude their including Bb in the newest round of master enabling agreements. Meanwhile, master enabling agreements were awarded to Angel Learning and MoodleRooms.
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La Universidad de Harvard opta por una política de open access por defecto

La Universidad de Harvard ha optado por una política clara de open access. Debemos tener en cuenta que la Universidad de Harvard está en el ranking de Universidades recién publicado en el puesto número 3 a nivel mundial. No es que yo crea mucho en los rankings, pero parece una indicación para las demás….Si estoy en el puesto 1000, que hago guardándome mis materiales para mi solo sería una buena pregunta desde un punto de vista puramente funcional?.
Podéis ver la noticia en distintas fuentes:
1)Harvard Opts In to ‘Opt Out’ Plan. en Inside Higher Ed. Harvard University’s arts and sciences faculty approved a plan on Tuesday that will post finished academic papers online free, unless scholars specifically decide to opt out of the open-access program. While other institutions have similar repositories for their faculty’s work, Harvard’s is unique for making online publication the default option.

2) harvard faculty votes overwhelmingly for open access en If book

The Harvard Crimson:

The motion, which passed easily at yesterday’s Faculty meeting, grants Harvard a non-exclusive copyright over all articles produced by any current Faculty member, allowing for the creation of an online repository that would be “available to other services such as web harvesters, Google Scholar, and the like.”

3) harvard adopta el open access por defecto en Tecnocidanos. Apoyar el movimiento open access es de sentido común, pero cuando una institución como Harvard lo convierte en obligatorio entonces es que el mundo de la difusión del conocimiento ha cambiado para siempre.
La Universidad de Harvard, gracias nanopolitan, decidió el último martes 12 adoptar por defecto una clara política de open access, ver Inside Higher Ed. Tal acuerdo, válido por el momento para los miembros de la Facultad de Artes y Ciencias, significa que todas las publicaciones realizadas por sus profesores serán accesibles a través del repositorio institucional.

4) More on the imminent OA mandate at Harvard en Open Acces news

Robert Darnton, The Case for Open Access, Harvard Crimson, February 12, 2008. Darnton is the Director of the Harvard University Library. Excerpt:

The motion before the FAS [Faculty of Arts and Sciences] in support of open access to scholarly articles concerns openness in general. It is meant to promote the free communication of knowledge. By retaining rights for the widest possible dissemination of the faculty’s work, it would make scholarship by members of the FAS freely accessible everywhere in the world, and it would reinforce a new effort by Harvard to share its intellectual wealth.

The University Library has taken a leading role in that endeavor. Far from reserving its resources for the privileged few, it is digitizing its special collections, opening them to everyone online, and cooperating with Google in the attempt to make books in the public domain actually available to the public, a worldwide public, which extends everywhere that people have access to the Internet. If the FAS votes in favor of the motion on February 12, Harvard will make the latest work of its scholars accessible, just as it is creating accessibility to the store of knowledge that it has accumulated in its libraries since 1638

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