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Fourteen of the best tools for educational research

Fourteen of the best tools for educational research | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"What are the best tools for educational research? In Search Engines For Academic Research, we shared a list of actual search platforms including BASE, saying “BASE is one of the world’s most voluminous search engines, especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 200 million documents from more than 8,000 content providers. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access) ... "

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Open version of Best Practices for Teaching with Emerging Technologies

Open version of Best Practices for Teaching with Emerging Technologies | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"As you may know, the second edition of my book, Best Practices for Teaching with Emerging Technologies, published in May. This book is published by Routledge and the content in the book is covered …"

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Harvard/MIT Report analyzes four years of MOOC data -- Campus Technology

Harvard/MIT Report analyzes four years of MOOC data -- Campus Technology | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Two of the brains behind the institutions' edX programs have released results of a joint research project that mined the data generated through four years of MOOC activity ..."

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Facebook’s “free” Internet will harm low-income consumers

Facebook’s “free” Internet will harm low-income consumers | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Opinion: Letting corporations dictate our internet access choices online won't build the digital future we're fighting for ..."

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Open access is not free. Someone is doing the work. Someone is paying

Open access is not free. Someone is doing the work.  Someone is paying | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Much of what's being said in support of open access publishing misses one key point: that is there is always a value chain and costs are incurred. Someone somewhere is paying for open access ..."

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Open access: Does less equal more? - Enago Blog: Scientific publication help

Open access: Does less equal more? - Enago Blog: Scientific publication help | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"The open access model was introduced in academic publishing to counter the excessive subscription fees of traditional academic journals. But as far as the journal prestige is concerned, OA journals are still considered no match to the traditional journals ..."

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Edinburgh’s literary history mapped at the click of a button

Edinburgh’s literary history mapped at the click of a button | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"‘Lit Long’, a searchable interactive map of the city will take users to locations made famous by Scottish writers – and tell you what they wrote ..."

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Education researchers don't check for errors -- dearth of replication studies - Education By The Numbers

Education researchers don't check for errors -- dearth of replication studies - Education By The Numbers | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Education theories come and go. Experts seem to advocate for polar opposites, from student discovery to direct teacher instruction, from typing to cursive hand-writing, and from memorizing times tables to using calculators ..."

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From crowdfunding to open access, startups are experimenting with ... - TechCrunch

From crowdfunding to open access, startups are experimenting with ... - TechCrunch | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Among the most popular are Academia.edu and ResearchGate, two competing startups that are attempting to amass the world's researchers onto one platform ..."

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"What Is Open Access?" An Explanatory Video - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education

"What Is Open Access?" An Explanatory Video - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"As I wrote on Monday, it’s currently Open Access Week. If you’re unclear what, exactly, all the hubbub is about, then you’re in luck!..."

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Open education resources for teachers and students

Open education resources for teachers and students | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Open Education Resources (OER) Commons is a platform that provides open access to a wide variety of open educational resources that are either in the public domain or are licensed under Creative Commons ..."

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New pedagogical resource – Prompt – ProfHacker - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education

New pedagogical resource – Prompt – ProfHacker - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"I’m always looking for pedagogical resources, as well as publishing/scholarship opportunities for faculty (and myself) to publish in, and there is a new open-access journal, Prompt. It is, as stated in the editors’ introduction ..."

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A famed journal blacklist is dead. Long live a blacklist!

A famed journal blacklist is dead. Long live a blacklist! | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"The community of science watchdogs has lost a vital voice with the sudden and mysterious takedown of a website devoted to outing unscrupulous publishers ..."

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Cool Tools for School - Inside Higher Ed (blog)

Cool Tools for School - Inside Higher Ed (blog) | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Just in time for a new school year, I'm fighting off a tiresome bug that features a sore throat and a constant feeling that I should be taking a nap. Not good, when you're starting a new semester ..."

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What would an open access academic library look like, and what would an open access academic librarian do?

What would an open access academic library look like, and what would an open access academic librarian do? | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"In the context of something else, I mooted whether a particular project required an "open access academic library" as a throwaway comment, but it's a phrase that's been niggling at me, along with ..."

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Where is scholarship headed in the digital age? - eCampus News

Where is scholarship headed in the digital age? - eCampus News | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Two academics sound off on what open access really means in higher-ed today, and where the future of scholarship is headed ..."

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New full text book (open access) discusses use of e-books in higher education | LJ INFOdocket

New full text book (open access) discusses use of e-books in higher education | LJ INFOdocket | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Here's a recently published (November 2014) peer-reviewed book (open access, CC-BY license) commissioned by JISC and published by UK-based Ubiquity Press that might be of interest to some of you ..."

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Open access: six myths to put to rest

Open access: six myths to put to rest | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Open access to research is still held back by misunderstandings repeated by people who should know better, says Peter Suber ..."

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Why open access should be a key issue for university leaders

Why open access should be a key issue for university leaders | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Universities are drowning in digital information ..."

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