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Scholarly Communication guide

Wednesday, August 15th, 2012 | Sarah G | 1 Comment

Over the past six months the University of Otago Library has been working to develop a new guide about scholarly communication. This guide is intended for new, emerging and established researchers.

This guide brings together many aspects of the scholarly communication process: from finding research networks and calls for papers, to suggestions for managing documents and references, and it provides information about research repositories.

The guide covers issues such as ethics, rights management and university policies about IP for students and staff. It guides the user to information about Open Access and considerations around publishing. The inclusion of links to support services makes finding assistance quick and stress free.

Please take a look, send me feedback, and share this with your colleagues.

Best,
Sarah

 

#MOOCMOOC: a Massive Open Online Course about the MOOC format

Sunday, August 5th, 2012 | MARK MCGUIRE | 5 Comments

My LinkedIn network, visualized (Kars Alfrink CC-BY-NC-SA) http://goo.gl/yy9tx

I just discovered a new MOOC that will focus on the MOOC format as it’s subject. If you are interested (they say it could take only 1-2 hours per day for a week), read “The March of the MOOCs: Monstrous Open Online Courses” and register for the MOOCMOOC. This event, scheduled for 12-18 August, is coordinated by the folks behind Hybrid Pedagogy, “a Digital Journal of Teaching & Technology at the intersection of critical pedagogy & new media.” You can follow the editors on Twitter: @allistelling (Pete Rorabaugh, Visiting Lecturer at Georgia State University) and @jessifer (Jesse Strommel, Digital Pedagogy, New Media, and Horror Film Scholar and Digital Humanities Program Director). While you’re there, check out @hybridped and search for #digped to see their recent synchronous Twitter chat about face-to-face v.s online learning models.