Category: Open access
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Academics ‘shocked’ that publishers are morally bankrupt
Apparently, some academics are shocked that publishers are making even more money from work that they’ve done for free. And, they’re also under the impression that they own the copyright of the articles they’ve had published. Weird.
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In Beta newsletter – Open Scholarship
Open scholarship should be about reshaping higher education, from open educational resources to open access journals. But in reality it is almost always positioned as a way to advance someone’s career. For example, publish in open-access journals to increase ‘reach’ and citations. We need another way to think about scholarship that looks beyond academia.
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Paywall: The business of scholarship
“Paywall: The Business of Scholarship is a documentary which focuses on the need for open access to research and science. The film questions the rationale behind the $25.2 billion a year that flows into for-profit academic publishers, examines the 35-40% profit margin associated with the top academic publisher, Elsevier, and looks at how that profit margin…
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Article: CORE-GPT: Combining Open Access research and large language models for credible, trustworthy question answering
Pride, D., Cancellieri, M., & Knoth, P. (2023). CORE-GPT: Combining Open Access research and large language models for credible, trustworthy question answering (arXiv:2307.04683). arXiv. http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.04683 In this paper, we present CORE-GPT, a novel question answering platform that combines GPT-based language models and more than 32 million full-text open access scientific articles from CORE. We first…
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Podcast: Lex Fridman talks to Jimmy Wales about Wikipedia
I really enjoyed this conversation between Lex Fridman and Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is one of my favourite websites, not only for the obvious utility of having an enormously broad, diverse, and detailed encyclopedia, but for the community of people who create it.
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Building a hackable, open-source, curriculum with version control
It’s possible to use distributed version control to create professional curricula that all students can edit and use for personally meaningful learning. This brief presentation discusses the major components of what would need to be in place to implement this project.
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SAAHE podcast 05 – A critical pedagogy for online learning, with Michael Rowe
Earlier this year the Critical Physiotherapy Network published Manipulating practices: A critical physiotherapy reader. The book is a collection of critical writing from a variety of authors dealing with a range of topics related to physiotherapy practice and education. One of the interesting features of this collection is that it is completely open access, which…
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WCPT course: Creating and running an open online course
I’m in Singapore for the 2015 World Confederation for Physical Therapy Congress, which is the largest gathering of physiotherapists in the world. I’ve never been to a WCPT Congress before, so I’ve really been looking forward to this for a while now. Tomorrow I’m presenting a half day course with Tony and Rachael Lowe from…
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An international project in professional ethics
Earlier this year I began working with several colleagues on an international module in professional ethics. We’re going to spend 2015 collaboratively designing a module that students from a variety of undergraduate physiotherapy programmes can complete, in both online and face-to-face contexts. The project builds on the work I’ve done previously as part of my PhD research (these notes…
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Short commentary on our institutional open access repository
I was recently asked to give a brief commentary on my experiences with using the institutional open access article repository. Here’s the brief clip:
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PHT402 online course accreditation
The #pht402 Professional Ethics course has just been accredited by the South African Society of Physiotherapists and Health Professions Council of South Africa for 6 Level 2 Ethics CPD points. If you are a South African physiotherapist and would like to take part in the course, please register here before 9th August. Over the past…
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Opencourseware Consortium panel discussion at UWC
Andy Lane, Archbishop, Chancellor, derek keats, Desmond Tutu, ethics, internet superstars, lecturer, Neil Butcher, OCW Consortium, oer, oer africa, open university, Opencourseware Consortium, p2pu, peer 2 peer university, Peer University, philip schmidt, south africa, United Kingdom, Vice-Chancellor, Wits UniversityLast Friday I was fortunate enough to attend 2 panel discussions on the use of OER in higher education. It was a bit of an occasion as one of the panels included a few board members of the Opencourseware Consortium (on a side note, UWC is a member of the OCW Consortium). This post is…
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Health OER Africa
Yesterday I attended the morning of a workshop around a Health OER Network for Africa that’s currently in development. It’s a project that’s sponsored by the South African Institute of Distance Education (SAIDE) and includes participants from all over the continent. The objectives of the workshop were to share lessons from the first phase of…
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Mozilla Open Education course: seminar 6
I know that this is all out of sync but the audio for sessions 4 and 5 aren’t up yet and I haven’t had a chance to go through the slideshows yet. Today’s session was about the actual practice of teaching, using “open” as a framework. Here are my notes: Session 6 – Open pedagogy…
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Mozilla Open Education course: seminar 3
API, Chris Blizzard, course, Google, html, instantaneous communication network, Javascript, model of open technology, mozilla, MozOpenEdCourse, open education, open technology, open web, open web technology, poor internet connectivity, printing press, technology, twitter, web browser, web tech, web technology, web videoOpen web tech Again, I missed this seminar because of poor internet connectivity on the day and am catching up on the audio after the fact. Here are my notes from the presentation given by Mozilla’s Chris Blizzard. Open as a concept Innovation and change = important building blocks Relevance and why open matters Repurposing…
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Mozilla Open Education course: seminar 2
Open educational resources I missed the second session of the Mozilla Open Education course that was held about two weeks ago because of Internet issues, and only just had the opportunity to listen to the audio. Here are my notes from the session, which featured a panel of experienced users and creators of Open Education…