This FLC sparked my interest in the idea of “open production” in science – a way of performing work that hews more closely to the ideals of how science “ought” to work and to some extent a remedy for the pressures at most academic institutions to engage in practices that degrade scientific quality. Course redesign – Open production I …
In one of our discussions, we discussed the concept of a blockchain. The IEEE conveniently published a collection of readable, informative articles on blockchains shortly after our conversation (how they work, why they’re useful, why they’re drawing huge investments, etc.). If you’re even remotely curious about the concept, it’s worth a look.
In one of the readings for this week, Kathleen Fitzpatrick considers how digital-based works and open scholarship fit poorly into current tenure processes. She surprised me by not simply discussing how new forms of scholarship could be accommodated within the standard review process for tenure or promotion but by pointing out how the review process itself could be reformed to …
When I agreed to join the Open Scholarship FLC, I’ll admit that I wasn’t quite sure where it was headed, and the primary model that I had in mind was open access. But the first set of readings led me back to the Center for Open Science which I’d only been vaguely familiar with before this point. I ran across …
