In “Open Pedagogy: Connection, Community, & Transparency”, Tom Woodward responds to questions from Mary Grush about open pedagogy, open planning, open products, and open post hoc. Woodward describes open pedagogy as “a blend of strategies, technologies, and networked communities that make the process and products of education more transparent, understandable, and available to all the people involved”. In “OER: Bigger …
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This morning I read the article by Gina Kolata in the New York Times entitled, Many Academics Are Eager to Publish in Worthless Journals. The article discusses predatory journals, which are “journals” (if we bend that term beyond recognition) that are willing to publish anyone, have little to no editorial staff and do not employ peer-review… Read more Openness and predatory …
Most of the discussions around “open scholarship” seem to presuppose that access is an unambiguous good. Inasmuch as the inclusion of the views and analyses of trained professionals might influence (and perhaps elevate) the discourse, this assumption makes sense. However, is the influence reciprocal? Does writing with a larger audience (a different public) affect the level of discourse in the …
As I hold the position of lecturer, a non-tenure track faculty position, I found myself dispassionately engaged with this week’s readings. My work is to teach and advise, and I do not share the same publication pressure of my colleagues. At the same time, coming from a laboratory and field research background, publishing (once upon a time) in ‘sexy’ journals …
by Rich Niesenbaum One of the arguments for the development and use of GMOs was to make food production more sustainable through higher yields, increased nutritional quality of food, and decreased dependency on pesticides. Pamela Ronald, a professor of plant pathology at the University of California Davis, has argued that by increasing yield without increased need for chemical fertilizers and …
This is a quick post about this website and how I hope it will now work. It started off very clunky and did not work the way I planned. This was partially due to some unexpected limitations in WordPress. I am keeping my fingers crossed that recent changes will improve interaction. The primary goal of the website is to provide …
As part of a faculty learning community on “Open Scholarship” I will be posting a series of blog posts on the concept itself and potential uses/implications. This post is the first in the series. One of the first “moves” that I teach my students about reading academic writing is to practice reading for different purposes. Two of these purposes are …
