Fortnightly Mailing

Snippets from 4 December 2012 to 9 February 2013

Uncorrected records of "in person" evidence to the House of Lords #OpenAccess Inquiry now available (4 PDFs) - http://www.parliament.uk/busines...

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Karen Coyle ponders small/micro payments for scholarly content. I know I'd not baulk at this in the way I do at >$30. - http://kcoyle.blogspot.co.uk/2013...

    

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No more dogsbodies? Interesting reflection on Francis Report by @rsamatthew (Matthew Taylor RSA CEO) .@OldDitch - http://www.matthewtaylorsblog.com/uncateg...

   

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It's harder than you think. Convincing piece by Arie K den Boon about developing an AI-inspired MOOC at U of Amsterdam - http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs...

   

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The FT's @xtophercook has a great analysis of the Gove "climb-down" measures (it's more complicated...) - http://blogs.ft.com/ftdata...

   

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I'm a bit torn as to whether @Jeffrey_Beall is doing us all a service, or banging on needlessly about obvious scammers. - http://scholarlyoa.com/2013...

Snippets from 30 October to 3 December

This puts all snippets into one place. Possibly worth scan-reading for items that catch your attention. (Updated 20151201)

 

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Ian Nash grades Michael Wilshaw's annual report ‘unsatisfactory’. - http://policyconsortium.co.uk/2012...

 

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The Economist has bubble/Ponzi nuances in "American universities represent declining value for money to their students" - http://www.economist.com/news...

 

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Economist article about "dronefather" Abe Karem with many insights on the superiority of tightly focused smallish scale development. - http://www.economist.com/news...

 

Snippets from 17 September to 29 October

Egalitarian push-back from readers of the Economist in response to its "Capitalism and inequality" special report. - http://www.economist.com/news...

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Important report > "Understanding low and discontinued Internet use amongst young people in Britain" - this blog post by the authors links the the full report. Concluding para excerpted below: - http://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/policy...

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Rereading Zhao and Frank's terrific 2003 "Factors Affecting Technology Uses in Schools: An Ecological Perspective" http://www.webcitation.org/6BgDdu1.... Related: 2006 blog post: http://fm.schmoller.net/2006...

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Snippets from 18 August to 17 September

How Are Teachers in Finland Evaluated? Amanda Ripley's WSJ article appears via @dianeravitch on her driven & excellent "Site to discuss better education for all". - http://dianeravitch.net/2012...

 

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Interesting sections on infrastructure and on universities in this (. @xtophercook) speech by Mike Bloomberg (Mayor of New York), looking back 4 years after the onset of the financial crisis. - http://www.mikebloomberg.com/index...