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Open CALL Resources for the 4 Skill Areas – Prezi

I’m giving a talk today at Hanyang Cyber Univerity in Seoul to TESL students.  I decided to give a broad overview of Web services/sites that could be useful for learning/instruction for listening, reading, writing, and speaking.  It’s a 90 minute talk and I’m sure we will use all of it as you can see from the scope of the presentation.

Of course, after I finished with this first iteration, I realized that I completely ignored Opensource software and Open Educational Resources (OER).  I figured that I’d hold off on that for now considering this group might not be ready for that discussion.  There are so many fun applications in those categories.  I guess that will be a part 2 that will have to wait until later.

The handout is here: http://tinyurl.com/opencall4skill

And the Prezi presentation is embedded below.

<a href="http://prezi.com/lwllwrdjvm-o/open-call-resources-for-the-4-skill-areas/" title="This presentation accompanies a handout at http://tinyurl.com/opencall4skill on free Web resources for language learning”>Open CALL Resources for the 4 Skill Areas on Prezi

 

Let me know what you think.

Open Access Does Not Equal More Citations, Study Finds (via @tonnet)

Open Access Does Not Equal More Citations, Study Finds

April 1, 2011, 4:12 pm

By Ben Wieder

A new study suggests that while open access appears to increase the readership of scholarly articles, it doesn’t increase how often they’re cited.

The study stands in contrast with earlier research that suggested open-access articles were referenced by other scholars more frequently.

Philip M. Davis, a postdoctoral associate in the department of communication at Cornell University, was given access to 36 subscription-based journals produced by seven different publishers. In 2007 and early 2008, he randomly made approximately 20 percent of their articles free.

via chronicle.com

I find this counter-intuitive, but it’s an interesting finding.

I think that one of the ways that we (academics) can push open publication is to show that it results in a greater number of citations, thus impact factor. If this is the case, authors will favor open journals; thus, open journals will have access to better articles.

If findings like this prove to be accurate, that could frustrate a move to open journals. However, I have to guess that, to a certain extent, it is going to happen regardless.

Stephen Downes Webinar for Curt Bonk’s Indiana University Class

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Just finished watching/listening/participating in a Webinar with Stephen Downes for Curt Bonk’s class at Indiana University.  I’ve been a fan of Downes for a number of years, primarily through his blog, so I was happy to see that he was talking to Curt’s class and that Curt opened it up to the public (through the departmental listserv).

The talk was generally on Open Educational Resources (OERs), but with a particular focus on equity though openness in terms of access, economics, and corporate subversion.

Not too much new for anyone who follows his blog, OLDaily (http://www.downes.ca/news/OLDaily.htm), but it was good to catch him “live”.

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