Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The big four publishers - Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor and Francis and Springer - are making huge profits worldwide from the goodwill of academics. This is a growing trend as was evidenced recently when the entire editorial team on one of Elsevier's academic journal Lingua resigned over high price and lack of open access.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MAY 17, 2016

Cutting off access to research results – either the seminal (foundational) research or the very latest findings published earlier this morning – is a certain way to kill this kind of endeavor. The overwhelming majority of research on cancer is owned by publishers of academic journals like Elsevier and Springer.

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 28, 2012

In a Gramscian sense, hegemony describes the power exercised by the ruling class over the population in order to maintain control of the means of production. Wikipedia is popular because it can be accessed from anywhere using a web enabled mobile phone. And when all factors are analysed, this should be no surprise.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Trump’s education platform promises to “make post-secondary options more affordable and accessible through technology enriched delivery models.” Very unfair! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 11, 2016. ” “Make MOOCs great again.” Is that possible? Data, Privacy, and Surveillance.

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