Scholarly communications shouldn’t just be open, but non-profit too Much of the rhetoric around the future of scholarly communication hinges on the “open” label. In light of Elsevier’s recent acquisition of bepress and the announcement that, owing to high fees, an established mathematics journal’s editorial team will split from its publisher to start an open access alternative, Jefferson Pooley argues that the scholarly communication ecosystem should aim not only to be open but non-profit too. The profit motive is fundamentally misaligned with core values of academic life, potentially corroding ideals like unfettered inquiry, knowledge-sharing, and cooperative progress. Two big stories swept through scholarly publishing last week. The second story cut the other way. So bepress went big-league commercial, even as the math editors opted out of the for-profit system. So the new Algebraic Combinatorics journal will be open access, and won’t be charging usurious author processing charges. Scholarly communication is up for grabs. About the author
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The Heliotropic Effect in Leadership and Coaching Recently I attended a workshop at Positive 12 led by Kim Cameron Professor of Management at University of Michigan. In his presentation he referred to the ‘Heliotropic Effect’ You might remember this from science classes – perhaps not. It is the tendency of living things to move towards sources of light and positive energy. (Click the link later in this newsletter to listen to an interview with Professor Cameron). New developments in social network analysis are now revealing the ‘positive energisers’ in organisations and conversely the ‘energy drainers’ - who is attracted to who and who avoids who. Those positive energisers in general: are stronger performers, bring out better performance in those around them get their ideas acted upon more often attract good people to work with them So what is it that makes interactions with these people so energising and so impactful in the teams and organisations for which they work? Have a positively energising month! John Campbell Director
Innovative Schools 2017 Welcome to The Educator’s third annual Innovative Schools report. In each of our first two years, we received a plethora of submissions from schools in all corners of the country, bringing to our attention some truly inspiring work being undertaken to equip students with the tools that will help them to face a world vastly different from the one we currently know. Once again this year, the volume and quality of entries received made selecting the list of schools to profile an arduous task and spoke to the depth of innovative work currently being undertaken in Australian schools. But we have gone through the difficult assessment process and chosen 40 schools we have determined are worthy of special recognition. It must be emphasised, however, that the outstanding work detailed on the pages that follow offers only a snapshot of the pioneering work in our schools that merits commendation. We hope you enjoy learning about some of these proponents of educational change.
Natural History Museum Webinar with Alan November and Dr. Eric Mazur This is a very special episode of our podcast series. It’s an archived recording of our first of what we hope will be many live webinars complete with audience Q&A at the end. In this conversation, Alan talks again to Dr. Eric Mazur, Area Dean of Applied Physics at Harvard University and 2011 Building Learning Communities Conference keynote speaker. Alan and Dr. Mazur revisit his work on flipped learning along with peer instruction that is guided by the questions and misconceptions students bring to class each day. Dr. Loaded: 0% Progress: 0%
Copyright for Educators Jessica Smith Introduction In today's digital environment, teachers and students are connected by an ever-increasing number of devices to a world of online content. This article provides some smart copying tips to help teachers to actively manage copyright costs while complying with their copyright obligation. It also tackles the tricky issues of YouTube and iTunes. Although copyright can be complex, remembering the five Ls can help you to manage the risks and costs associated with using other people's content: Look for Open Education Resources and use these as much as possible.Link instead of copying whenever this is an option.Limit the amount you copy to what you actually need for educational purposes.Label the content with the details of its author, owner, source, and the basis on which you are copying it.Later delete or archive the content once you no longer require it for educational purposes. Creative Commons Smart Copying Tips Linking Linking is not a copyright activity. Embedding
Site officiel du musée du Louvre The Conversation: In-depth analysis, research, news and ideas from leading academics and researchers. Does Digital Scholarship Have a Future? The articles and books that scholars produce today bear little mark of the digital age in which they are created. Thus the foundation of academic life—the scholarship on which everything else is built—remains surprisingly unaltered. Edward L. Twenty years into the transformation initiated by the World Wide Web, we have grown accustomed to a head-spinning pace of technological and social change. Even the academy, traditionally skeptical of externally generated change, has become blasé about web-induced transformation. Yet the foundation of academic life—the scholarship on which everything else is built—remains surprisingly unaltered. Not many scholars worry about this situation. For those of us who have watched the story of academic digital innovation unfold, this is a bit puzzling and disappointing. The concept of digital scholarship has emerged to describe this activity. To understand this situation, we need to step back for a moment to take a broader view of the scholarly enterprise.
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