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Library vendors, politics, Aaron Swartz, #pdftribute
Posted by John Dupuis on January 17, 2013 On January 10, 2013 Rick Anderson published a post at The Scholarly Kitchen published on six mistakes library staff are making when dealing with our vendors. Most of them were fairly standard stuff like don’t be rude, don’t waste people’s time. That sort of thing. (Yes, sometimes I think that every time I link to…
A year in Open Access advocacy: 2012
Posted by John Dupuis on December 31, 2012 While it has not generally been my practice to do year end review posts, artificially trying to tie the various and disparate strands of my blogging habits together into some sort of coherent story, I think for this year it’s worth doing. And that’s because my blogging year did seem to have a coherent theme…
Around the Web, Apocalypse Edition: The End of the Universtiy as we know it, Librarians as baristas and more
Posted by John Dupuis on December 18, 2012 The End of the University as We Know It The future of online vs. residential education by futurist Ray Kurzweil Librarians or Baristas? Prioritizing Academic Programs Khan Academy Founder Proposes a New Type of College Assessing Campus Libraries (space, yes, services…) Where is Library Technology going? MLA President Offers a Sobering Critique of Graduate Education…
Building a new scholarly communications ecosystem from first principles
Posted by John Dupuis on November 29, 2012 Like the old saying goes, information wants to be free. In particular, the consumers of information would prefer for the most part not to have to directly pay for the information they are consuming. The information itself, if I may anthropomorphize for a moment, also wants to circulate as freely as possible, to be as…
The Libertarian University
Posted by John Dupuis on November 28, 2012 Or, more precisely, a university designed by libertarians. Over the last number of months, I’ve featured a fair bit of apocalyptic MOOC Disruptionism in my regular Around the Web posts. Recently, the libertarian think tank, The Cato Institute (Wikipedia) via their Cato Unbound site, has put online a series of essays discussing just how the…
Around the Web: College Reinvented, Shirky on MOOCs, Newspapers & citizenship and more apocalypse
Posted by John Dupuis on November 23, 2012 College, Reinvented: The Finalists Napster, Udacity, and the Academy Is the death of newspapers the end of good citizenship? MOOCs and the Future of the University Survival of the Fittest in the New Music Industry The Stanford Education Experiment Could Change Higher Learning Forever How Dead Is the Book Business? Beyond Literacy and Beyond ‘Beyond…
Current/Future State of Higher Education: Week 6: Distributed Research & new models of inquiry !
Posted by John Dupuis on November 13, 2012 Yes, I’ve fallen behind a bit on my MOOC due to conferences and other general insanity, but after doing the last week this week I vow to catch up a bit retroactively and do weeks 3, 4 & 5. My weeks 1 and 2 posts are here and here. Distributed Research: new models of inquiry…
Getting Your Science Online: Presentation at Brock University Physics Department
Posted by John Dupuis on October 22, 2012 It seems that Brock University in St. Catherine’s, Ontario really likes me. Two years ago, the Library kindly invited me to speak during their Open Access Week festivities. And this year the Physics Department has also very kindly invited me to be part of their Seminar Series, also to talk about Getting Your Science Online,…
Current/Future State of Higher Education: Week 2 reading list!
Posted by John Dupuis on October 18, 2012 I’m at the Access Conference in Montreal this week starting today, so I’m a bit behind on the readings for the Current/Future State of Higher Education MOOC I’m participating in. I’m hoping a nice long relaxing train ride will give me the opportunity to catch up. Anyways, Week 1 was a great introduction to the…
Current/Future State of Higher Education: An Open Online Course: Week 1 reading list!
Posted by John Dupuis on October 11, 2012 Well, I’ve done it. I’ve signed up for a MOOC. MOOC, of course, being Massively Open Online Courses, are all the rage in higher-ed-more-disruptingly-than-thou circles, what with their potential is greatly expand the reach of higher education beyond a campus-bound constituency. But not without criticism, of course. Coursera is a popular example of a company…
