jdupuis | November 26, 2012Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following: The Globe and Mail 100.
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen by Stephen R. Bown
Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science and Evolution by David Rothenberg
Turing’s Cathedral: The Origin of the Digital Universe by George Dyson…
jdupuis | 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 Literacy’
Conservatives and the Higher Ed 'Bubble'
Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics, or What's Really Up With Automated Essay Scoring
Our Napster is Udacity: Quality Doesn’t Beat Access
University of the future: A thousand year old industry on…
jdupuis | November 23, 2012Anybody who's followed this blog for any length of time knows that I love books, I love reading them, I love reading and writing about them too. However, sometime it's possible to get a little too enamored of our own little petty obsessions. Of course, my obsessions are fine but yours are a bit suspect.
And for those of us with bookish obsessions, some of the not-so-fine parts of our mania is how we keep coming back to the same stupid conversations over and goddamn over again.
As this post so aptly demonstrated, there are definitely some bookish conversations, arguments and debates I don't…
jdupuis | November 22, 2012
Defending universities: engaging the public
Oxford erupts in 'Battle of the Bod'
Sexy in STEM? (great essay on women in science)
The Free Ebook Farce
Penguin to Expand E-Book Lending
Supporting a new way to peer-review
Transformational Leadership?
CourseSmart Analytics Is a Bad idea (because it tracks the wrong things)
Reputation bankruptcy
War and Nookd (case of word Kindle being mass replaced with nook)
Minding the Store (negotiating lower textbook prices)
Content Discovery Demystified
Opener Than Thou: On MOOCs and Openness
[2b2k] MOOCs as networks
Maximizing Your Tweets, Facebook Posts…
jdupuis | November 21, 2012Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following: Brain Pickings.
Internal Time: Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You’re So Tired by Till Roenneberg
The Where, the Why, and the How: 75 Artists Illustrate Wondrous Mysteries of Science by Matt Lamothe, Julia Rothman, Jenny Volvovski…
jdupuis | November 20, 2012Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2012 lists are here.
This post includes the following: Barnes & Noble Best Books 2012: Art, Architecture & Photography; Computer; Medical & Nursing; Professional & Education; .
Life in Color: National Geographic Photographs by Annie Griffiths
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins…
jdupuis | November 19, 2012
New LJ Report Closely Examines What Makes Academic Library Patrons Tick
Nate Silver and the Ascendance of Expertise
Stables and Volatiles (balancing personalities in project groups)
Academic Libraries, Information Literacy, and the Value of Our Values
Facebook wants to organise our relationships. What's not to like?
PeerJ: An Open-Access Experiment
Engaging the Public, Citizen Science and Imperialism
Social Media Companies Have Absolutely No Idea How to Handle the Gaza Conflict
As Libraries Go Digital, Sharing of Data Is at Odds With Tradition of Privacy
Why Tablets?
Why Are Physics Classes…
jdupuis | November 19, 2012It is time. The season of lists begins again!
Every year for the last bunch of years I've been linking to and posting about all the "year's best sciencey books" lists that I can find around the web in various media outlets.
From the beginning it's been a pretty popular service so I'm happy to continue it.
For my purposes, I define science books pretty broadly to include science, engineering, computing, history & philosophy of science & technology, environment, social aspects of science and even business books about technology trends or technology innovation. Deciding what is and…
jdupuis | November 14, 2012
The Fallacy of Digital Natives
Beats vs obsessions, columns vs. blogs, and other angels dancing on pins
Data-Gathering via Apps Presents a Gray Legal Area
Coup at Environmental Journal? (journal editorial board quits when journal changes too much under new admin)
Challenges in Digital Humanities
10 Questions To Distinguish Real From Fake Science
Fit for Purpose: Developing Business Cases for New Services in Research Libraries
Ten Things I Didn't Learn in Library School, Academic Edition ("You will spend more time in meetings than you can imagine.")
Measuring Engagement (With Books) (ebooks…
jdupuis | November 13, 2012Yes, 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 (Nov 12- 18)
Introduction - Week Six
Distributed research, or more generally, open science, reflect the next logical progression of the internet’s influence on higher education. Early 2000’s saw the development of open content. Since 2008, teaching in open online courses has gained prominence. Distributed research labs…
jdupuis | November 9, 2012As I mentioned way back on October 22nd, I was kindly invited to give a talk at the Brock University Physics Department as part of their seminar series. The talk was on Getting Your Science Online, a topic that I'm somewhat familiar with! Since it was coincidentally Open Access Week, I did kind of an A-Z of online science starting with the various open movements: access, data and notebooks. From there I did a quick tour of the whys and wherefores of blogs and Twitter.
There was a good turnout of faculty and grad students with lots of great questions and feedback, some more skeptical that…
jdupuis | November 7, 2012
The Inked Academic Body
Why I Support an Open Definition of DH
Bring It On! Why the Crisis in Academic Librarianship is the Best Thing Ever and What We Should Do About It.
Administration as Academic Alternative
In praise of the big old mess
Ignore the Doomsayers: The Book Industry Is Actually Adapting Well
Head of major university group weighs in on U-Va. (yeah, more on UVa)
An Open Letter to E-Book Retailers: Let’s have a return to common sense
From Master Plan to No Plan: The Slow Death of Public Higher Education
The Role of Trust in the Open Access Ecosystem
Open Access and its impact on…
jdupuis | October 27, 2012
The Impact of Social Media on the Dissemination of Research: Results of an Experiment
Would you include your blog in your T&P file?
The Benefits of Open Data – Evidence from Economic Research and Part II
Google Books Litigation Family Tree
Anatomy of open access publishing: a study of longitudinal development and internal structure
Can You Spare a Little Change? Open Access on the Local Level
Hacking the Open Textbook
Going Meta on the Data (discussion of library eresource usage stats by non-librarian)
Open Access: What is it and what does “Open” mean
Education, Technology "Journalism,"…
jdupuis | October 26, 2012This is a classic case of "so funny because it's so almost true that if you didn't laugh you would stab yourself in the eye but that's a bad idea because all the hospitals are placebo hospitals and placebos don't work so well on stab wounds."
From my new best friend, Newsbiscuit: Jeremy Hunt to open world’s first placebo hospital.
Britain’s first hospital built entirely on the power of suggestion is to be opened next week as a cost-effective solution to the rising price of healthcare. The Royal London Placebo is totally fabricated, offers no actual treatments and will be manned entirely by…
jdupuis | October 24, 2012
On Naming Names and Calling Out Trolls
Gawker, Reddit, Free Speech and Such
Millennials: They Aren’t So Tech Savvy After All
Project Information Literacy: Inventing the Workplace and How College Graduates Solve Information Problems Once They Join the Workplace
The Philosophy of Open Access
Impostors, Performers, Professionals - I and II (feeling like an academic imposter, pt II on the job hunt)
The Teaching Track? Really?
Teaching them to fish… (on higher ed "disruption")
Zeitgeist: On Ditching the Monograph and Digital Print Culture
The B-School Twitter-Free Zone
The future of higher…
jdupuis | October 22, 2012It 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, this time during OA Week mostly by happy coincidence.
It's tomorrow, Tuesday October 23, 2012 in room H313 at 12:30.
Here's the abstract I've provided:
Physicist and Reinventing Discovery author Michael Nielsen has said that due to the World Wide Web, “[t]he process of…
jdupuis | October 18, 2012I'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 issues facing higher ed and here in Week 2
Week 2: Net Pedagogies: New models for teaching and learning
Readings and Resources
Blended Learning Models
The Blended Learning Toolkit: Improving Student Performance and Retention, Educause Quarterly, Volume 34, Number 4, December 15, 2011.…
jdupuis | October 17, 2012
Fair use: a pseudo-post
What Exactly Is Critical Thinking?
The NPR Model for Higher Ed
Why It's Time for a Canadian Digitization Strategy Based on Fair Dealing
Is Open Access Destroying Academic Publishers?
Survey reveals hidden high stress levels and long-hours culture at universities
The Time Has Come to Expand the Scope of Conflict for eBooks
Will econ blogging hurt your career?
HTML5 vs. Apps: Why The Debate Matters, And Who Will Win
How, exactly, did UVa expect the public to react? (about secrecy involved in UVa presidential shenanigans from last summer)
Casualty of the Math Wars (prof…
jdupuis | October 15, 2012C. Scott Findlay, associate professor of biology at the University of Ottawa and a visiting research scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, had a sobering article in the Toronto Star a few days ago.
It's titled Governing in the dark: Ottawa’s dangerous unscientific revolution and it fits right in with my recent seemingly endless catalogue of how the current Canadian Conservative government is systematically undermining the free inquiry in Canada, scientific and otherwise. In the article Findlay first lays out some of the recent abuses and then gives four reasons why Canadians…
jdupuis | October 13, 2012
Everyone should program, or Programming is Hard? Both!
Oh No: LinkedIn Just Went Klout On Us
Can eTextbooks help save the planet?
Preventing the Second Big Deal (not getting locked into big etextbook deals)
Generation Y Leads in Book Buying, Says Industry’s Most Comprehensive Report
Apress unveils open access book publishing program for the tech community
Libraries reinvent themselves as labs of creativity
More Technology, Please (students want more edtech)
Lessons From Swiss Watch-Makers (traditional nonprofit higher ed needs to focus on high end value, niche branding)
The teaching-only…