My project concept focuses on open source software, open source data, and shared hardware. Over the past several years I’ve taught a mediocre intro to GIS lab session – a scant 2 hours dedicated to the introduction of the concept and utility of GIS, with a canned walk-through of ArcGIS using years-old data. The students hated it, though I insisted …
Several of the readings for our meeting this week have me thinking about how to make my classes more open. Specifically, Adam Croom’s piece, sent in a link by Tim, suggests “open as a situated learning space,” which is a deeper concept that OER or open pedagogy. But how do we create this learning space in light of DeRosa’s concerns …
For my Open Scholarship project, I plan to launch a peer-reviewed overlay journal, History of Media Studies. I have been talking about the idea with the UK-based Open Library of Humanities for over a year, as the nonprofit publishing platform worked to refine its open-source Janeway journal-hosting software to accommodate overlay titles. The software is nearly ready, and I have …
On Motherboard, Daniel Oberhaus recently write “Nearly All of Wikipedia is Written by Just 1 Percent of Its Editors“. The post describes results from the book Structural Differentiation in Social Media by Sorin Matei and Brian Britt. Oberhaus notes that Wikipedia has 43M articles in 285 languages and is the 5th most popular website in the world, and that “all …
My project is to collect and curate online the honors theses of Muhlenberg students for open access. Right now, the permission to proceed rests with the library director and the library committee, who in turn are going to consult with department heads. Once I receive the go ahead, I will develop a system of collection, most likely working with department …
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 …
A discussion about how to place value on scholarship is also a conversation about the value of scholarship and how to produce good scholarship. The best scholarship is that which communicates to educators, researchers, and students information that makes a contribution to the field. This requires language that has meaning, and often language that is more effectual because it is …
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 …
The quickening pace of the use of digital media both inside and outside academia is forcing our institutions to forgo reliance solely on traditional assessment standards. I do not believe that we are in a position to deny or delay, any longer, the consideration of these contributions to our scholarly work. The longer we delay, the less we will contribute …
