Posted in education, information landscape, open access, psychology, scholarly communication on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Open access journal publishing is one way that scholarship and research can be made available to the worldwide community, and a good place to find OA journals is the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Here are some examples from browsing the DOAJ subject lists:
Under psychology in social sciences: Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy, Annual [...]
Posted in education, students, tagged Add new tag on April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Watch one of ANE’s terrific science teacher certification students, Rose Chaffee, talk about and demonstrate how to rock the classroom:
Posted in education on August 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Beloit College has released its Mindset List for the class of 2011, whose members are entering college this year and were born in 1989. Feeling old yet? If not, you may when you read the list.
To give you a taste of the “mindset” of this cohort, here are the first ten items on the list:
What [...]
Posted in education, technology on August 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Inside Higher Ed has a story on Ithaka’s new report, University Publishing in a Digital Age.
The report and its authors are suggesting that university presses focus less on the book form and consider a major collaborative effort to assume many of the technological and marketing functions that most presses cannot afford, and that universities be [...]
Posted in education, faculty, higher ed, online learning & teaching, students on July 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Most of us have participated in a course—either as a student or instructor—that required online discussions. Just as can happen when classes meet face-to-face, some discussions take off and others fall flat. In eLearn Magazine, Richard Dool offers insight into ensuring that online course discussions are productive opportunities for learning.
The “dialogue intensive” model is built [...]
Posted in education on June 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In case you missed it, there was a some controversy in the library/elementary education/children’s literature world earlier this year. And it all revolved around the word scrotum.
On the first page of the Newbery award winning book, The Higher Power of Lucky, you’ll find that word. According to a New York Times article, some librarians and [...]
