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Fwd: 22.186 Academia.edu: 'tree' of academics launches
by jeremy hunsinger 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

sorry for the xposting, think it is interesting Begin forwarded message: > From: Humanist Discussion Group <willard.mccarty(a)MCCARTY.ORG.UK> > Date: August 31, 2008 6:55:58 PM EDT > To: humanist(a)Princeton.EDU > Subject: 22.186 Academia.edu: 'tree' of academics launches > Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group <willard.mccarty(a)MCCARTY.ORG.UK> > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 186. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.princeton.edu/humanist/ > Submit to: humanist(a)princeton.edu > > > > Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:42:38 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty(a)mccarty.org.uk> > Subject: Academia.edu: 'tree' of academics launches > > From: Richard Price > Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:21:46 -0700 > > Hi all, > > Im a prize fellow in philosophy at All Souls College Oxford, where I > recently finished my D.Phil on the philosophy of perception. > > Ive just launched a website, www.academia.edu, which does two things: > > > - It displays academics around the world in a tree format, > according to what university/department they are affiliated with. > > - It enables an academic to have an easy-to-maintain academic > webpage. My webpage on Academia.edu is here: > http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardPrice > > > My hope for the site is that it will list every academic Faculty > members, Post-Docs, and Graduate Students - in the world, and display > where they are working. I also hope people will use the site to keep > track of what people in their field are working on. > > Im trying to spread the word about www.academia.edu, so, if you > have a > minute, please visit the site, and add yourself to your department. > (Or > add your department/university to the tree if it is not there already; > it is easy to add a university or department by clicking on the > arrows). > > And do spread the word to your friends and colleagues if you can. > > > Many thanks, > > Richard > > > Dr. Richard Price, > Prize Fellow, > All Souls College, > Oxford, > OX1 4AL > http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardPrice jeremy hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu ) wiki.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ Learning Inquiry-the journal http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series

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new reviews in cyberculture studies (september 2008)
by David M Silver 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

hello! each month, the resource center for cyberculture studies publishes book reviews and author responses ( http://rccs.usfca.edu/booklist.asp ). books of the month for september 2008 are: At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet Editors: Annmarie Chandler and Norie Neumark Publisher: MIT Press, 2005 Review 1: Jennifer Way Author Response: Annmarie Chandler Author Response: Norie Neumark Code: Collaborative Ownership and the Digital Economy Editor: Rishab Aiyer Ghosh Publisher: MIT Press, 2005 Review 1: Michel Bauwens Follow for Now: Interviews with Friends and Heroes Editor: Roy Christopher Publisher: Well-Red Bear, 2007 Review 1: Ellis Godard Author Response: Roy Christopher stay tuned for more. david silver http://silverinsf.blogspot.com

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E-Learning CFP on globally networked learning in higher education
by Doreen Starke-Meyerring, Dr. 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

Dear colleagues, Please consider and distribute the following call for papers for a special issue of the journal E-Learning on globally networked learning in higher education: CALL FOR PAPERS: ****************************************************************************************** Special Issue of E-Learning on globally networked learning in higher education ****************************************************************************************** E-Learning, a peer-reviewed international journal directed towards the study of e-learning in its diverse aspects, invites submissions for a special issue on “Globalizing Higher Education Across the Disciplines: Innovative Partnerships, Policies, and Pedagogies for Globally Networked Learning Environments,” guest edited by Doreen Starke-Meyerring. Early national and global policy discourses around the role of the internet in higher education advanced utopian and dystopian understandings of the internet as a new global market for existing industrial-model, locally produced higher education courses and programs to be repackaged for global delivery and global trade online. As a result, hundreds of millions of public and private dollars have been spent on global internet-based higher education marketing consortia, many of which have since failed. As initial responses to digital technologies, these initiatives had largely tried to reproduce established institutionally bounded practices in digital environments, disregarding the networked nature and peer production potential of digital technologies, and therefore lacking pedagogical innovation to re-envision learning in a globally networked world. At the same time, however, many faculty across the disciplines in higher education have begun to develop alternative pedagogies and learning environments that take advantage of the globally networked nature of digital technologies. These globally networked learning environments (GNLEs) connect students with peers, instructors, professionals, experts, and communities from diverse contexts to help students develop new ways of knowledge making and learn how to build shared learning and knowledge cultures across traditional boundaries, especially with peers and communities that have been the most marginalized and disadvantaged in the emerging global social and economic order. However, such GNLEs are difficult to develop because they require robust partnerships, must negotiate a multitude of divergent national and institutional local policies, and as innovations, face challenges of institutional support infrastructures and policies designed around traditional local classrooms. The purpose of this special issue is to understand the current state of globally networked learning environments across disciplines in higher education and to advance insights into their development and sustainability. The special issue therefore invites both conceptual contributions that address larger questions surrounding GNLEs as well as research studies of GNLE development across disciplines, addressing questions such as these (among others): - What is the current state of globally networked learning in higher education? - How have GNLEs addressed issues of global and local social justice? - What kind of disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge making do GNLEs enable that would be difficult to achieve in traditional institutionally bounded classrooms? How? - What challenges do educators face in designing, implementing, and sustaining such partnered learning environments? How do they overcome them? - How do national and global policies regulating higher education as well as those regulating digital technologies (e.g. privacy, intellectual property, and censorship policies) enable or constrain the development of GNLEs? - How do local institutional policies, including policies regulating digital technologies, enable or constrain the development of GNLEs? - What institutional initiatives (e.g., task forces, innovator networks, centres for research and faculty support, integrated support networks) have emerged to support the work of faculty innovators? - What research is needed to advance globally networked learning environments in higher education? Schedule:  Proposals indicating the purpose, rationale, and possible approach of contributions (250-500 words): November 1, 2008  Submissions (full manuscripts): January 15, 2009  Accepted manuscripts revised for publication: May 15, 2009  Scheduled publication of issue: Fall 2009 Please direct inquiries and proposals to the guest editor: Doreen Starke-Meyerring doreen.starke-meyerring(a)mcgill.ca Please also contact the editor if you are interested in serving as a reviewer for this special issue. ****************************************************** Doreen Starke-Meyerring, Ph.D. Associate Director, Centre for the Study and Teaching of Writing Assistant Professor, Rhetoric and Writing Studies Department of Integrated Studies in Education McGill University 3700, rue McTavish Montréal, QC H3A 1Y2, Canada T: 514.398.1308 F: 514.398.4529 E: doreen.starke-meyerring @ mcgill.ca W: http://webpages.mcgill.ca/staff/group1/dstark1/web/starke-meyerring/ President, Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing/ Association candienne de rédactologie http://casdw-acr.mcgill.ca ******************************************************

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