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Academic Earth
http://academicearth.org/

lectures top academics
A List Apart: Articles: Elevate Web Design at the University Level
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/elevatewebdesignattheuniversitylevel
Web education is out of date and fragmented. There are good people working hard to change this, but because of the structure of higher education, it will take time. As part of a year-long journey to discover where we are in web education and where we need to go, Leslie Jensen-Inman interviewed 32 web design and development leaders. The consensus: technology moves too fast for college and university curricula to keep up. How, then, can educators create a sustainable foundation for the future?
Sponsor an Educator...sounds like a new nonprofit idea to me.
Web education is out of date and fragmented.
PhilPapers: Online research in philosophy
http://philpapers.org/
Huge repository of papers in academic philosophy
PhilPapers is a comprehensive directory of online philosophy articles and books by academic philosophers. We monitor journals in many areas of philosophy, as well as archives and personal pages. We also accept articles directly from users, who can provide links or upload copies. Some features require that you sign in first, but creating an account is easy and free.
An index of current research in philosophy. Also offers forums, discussion groups, and advanced bibliographic tools for philosophers.
Academic Hacker News
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~ad/news/
Academic Reference and Research Index, accessing selected reference sites
http://www.academicindex.net/
Academic Earth - Video lectures from the world's top scholars
http://academicearth.org/main-page.html
Earth AcademicEarth academicearth.org
Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars. Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world class education.
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
http://www.youtube.com/edu
an educational hub “volunteer project sparked by a group of employees who wanted to find a better way to collect and highlight all the great educational content being uploaded to YouTube by colleges and universities”
Education: Academic Earth Aggregates Lectures from MIT, Harvard, Yale, and Others
http://lifehacker.com/5182253/academic-earth-aggregates-lectures-from-mit-harvard-yale-and-others
10 High Fliers on Twitter - Chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i31/31a01001.htm
10 High people to follow on Twitter.
On the microblogging service, professors and administrators find work tips and new ways to monitor the world
Jeff Young
the famous profile of 10 academic twitterers
Welcome to Essential Evidence Plus
http://www.essentialevidenceplus.com/
Op-Ed Contributor - End the University as We Know It - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/opinion/27taylor.html
want to read this, but only just started it
nice op-ed on the future of the university
GRADUATE education is the Detroit of higher learning. Most graduate programs in American universities produce a product for which there is no market (candidates for teaching positions that do not exist) and develop skills for which there is diminishing demand (research in subfields within subfields and publication in journals read by no one other than a few like-minded colleagues), all at a rapidly rising cost (sometimes well over $100,000 in student loans).
If higher education is to thrive, colleges and universities, like Wall Street and Detroit, must be rigorously regulated and completely restructured.
Secret of Googlenomics: Data-Fueled Recipe Brews Profitability
http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/17-06/nep_googlenomics?currentPage=all
Kuinka Googlen AdWords oikeasti toimii. Steven Levyn erinomainen juttu Wiredissa.
The economics behind the ads you see, and what they cost.
Article by Steven Levy (not: Steven Levitt ;-) ) on Hal Varian, Google chief economist and the application of auctions to all kinds of logistical, organisational or economic problems.
Wichowski
http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2447/2175
a First Monday article on the creation and evolution of folksonomies
Folksonomies have emerged as a means to create order in a rapidly expanding information environment whose existing means to organize content have been strained. This paper examines folksonomies from an evolutionary perspective, viewing the changing conditions of the information environment as having given rise to organization adaptations in order to ensure information “survival” — remaining findable. This essay traces historical information organization mechanisms, the conditions that gave rise to folksonomies, and the scholarly response, review, and recommendations for the future of folksonomies.
First Monday, 4 may 2009, Alexis Wichowski
Wichowski
Googleが選ぶ20世紀の名著100選
http://arekore.nobody.jp/bestbooks.html
Goffman
Googleが選ぶ20世紀の名著100選
20世紀(1901年~2000年)に出版された文系の学術書の中で、どの本が多く引用されているかを100位まで調べてみた
Edge: THE IMPENDING DEMISE OF THE UNIVERSITY By Don Tapscott
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/tapscott09/tapscott09_index.html
author of Growing Up Digital
TextRunner Search
http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/textrunner/
TextRunner extracts information from billions of lines of text by analyzing basic relationships between words.
100 Incredible Lectures from the World’s Top Scientists | Best Colleges Online
http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2009/06/18/100-incredible-lectures-from-the-worlds-top-scientists/
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100 Serious Twitter Tips for Academics | Best Colleges Online
http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2009/07/21/100-serious-twitter-tips-for-academics
The following tips will help you know just how to get started using Twitter in academia, teach you etiquette, offer strategies and benefits, provide suggestions for specific ways to use Twitter, list tools to use with Twitter, and more.
50 Excellent Open Courses for Techie Librarians | Best Colleges Online
http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2009/06/19/50-excellent-open-courses-for-techie-librarians/
Best Colleges Online
"Techie librarians have lots of great resources available to them online, and open courses are some of the best tools for your professional development."
Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/article/Googles-Book-Search-A/48245/
- The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Geoffrey Nunberg
also check out the link to google's mis-scannings..
August 31, 2009 article in the Chronicle of Higher Education that points out some endemic errors with the digitized book quality including grossly erroneous dates. Also points out the problem of monopoly.
Prof. Hacker | Tips & Tutorials for higher ed: productivity & pedagogy in a digital age.
http://www.profhacker.com/
" ProfHacker delivers tips, tutorials, and commentary on pedagogy, productivity, and technology in higher education, Monday through Friday.
Futurity.org
http://futurity.org/
Noticias de última generación.
news from research universities
100 Useful Tools for Special Needs Students & Educators
http://www.teachingtips.com/blog/2009/09/07/100-useful-tools-for-special-needs-students-educators
Useful Tools for Special Needs Students & Educators
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Elements of Statistical Learning: data mining, inference, and prediction. 2nd Edition.
http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/
Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman (2008). Springer-Verlag. Full-text PDF is free.
free online book
@dataspora: "The Elements of Statistical Learning, the authoritative text on the subject, now free at authors' site http://bit.ly/2J8WNK (ht @johndcook)" (from http://twitter.com/dataspora/status/4847621837)
100 Best Professors Who Blog | Online College Tips - Online Colleges
http://www.onlinecollege.org/2009/10/12/100-best-professors-who-blog/
100 Blogging Professors
Prof's that Blog
Professionalization in the academy | Harvard Magazine Nov-Dec 2009
http://harvardmagazine.com/2009/11/professionalization-in-academy
Louis Menand outlines the changes afoot with regard to graduate education (and education in general?) and notes the danger of losing academia's contributions to social criticism and reflection.
The following excerpts, from the third and fourth chapters and his conclusion, probe the professionalization of a research-oriented professoriate and the practice and consequences of contemporary doctoral education, and the resulting implications for liberal-arts colleges, universities, and the wider society.
Quote: "A college student who has some interest in further education, but who is unsure whether she wants a career as a professor, is not going to risk investing eight or more years finding out"
Make Your Own Academic Sentence
http://writing-program.uchicago.edu/toys/randomsentence/write-sentence.htm
The World’s 50 Best Open Courseware Collections
http://onlineuniversityrankings.org/2009/the-worlds-50-best-open-courseware-collections/
Do you ever wonder why the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) might be more memorable than other technological schools? To become memorable, a school must reach out to people in ways that seem beneficial. Alumni organizations can help spread the word about their alma mater. Great sports teams and debate teams also can help boost a school’s standing. But, another fork to take in the marketing path is through the Internet, as MIT and other schools have done in sharing courses online and without charge.
PaperCube - Peter Bergström
http://papercube.peterbergstrom.com/
"PaperCube is a new experimental tool exploring the visual navigation of academic citation networks."
Terrific visualization tool for exploring connections between authors and citations.
Incredibly pertinent on bibliometry. Nice.
About - Indiana Standards & Resources
http://dc.doe.in.gov/Standards/AcademicStandards/index.shtml
Includes Lesson Plans for grade levels K-8, including assessments, for all subjects.
Indiana Academic Standards
This is the Indiana Department of Education standards page. This page can be very useful if you ever need to find the state's standards in a flash.
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Turning the Pages - History of Science - The Royal Society
http://www.royalsociety.org/turning-the-pages/
3D virtual browsing. Interface it a bit clunky, but I heart me some virtual books.
Welcome to our gallery of Turning the Pages™ presentations - high-quality digital facsimiles of manuscripts which replicate the physical experience of reading the original works as closely as possible. We hope that these will give you a flavour of the fascinating and diverse range of material held within our collections. We will be adding more items soon. Launch Turning the Pages™ 2.0 * Full 3D version - high end, full functionality. (Need help?) * Silverlight version - if you cannot use the 3D version, try this one. (Need help?) * Accessible version - if you're still having difficulty, try this version. (Need help?) The Turning the Pages™ Library currently includes these manuscripts. William Stukeley's Life of Newton Thomas Paine's iron bridge design Woolsthorpe Paine letter The Constitutions of Carolina Anatomical drawings of the human lymphatic system The fundamental constitutions of Carolina Foot Richard Waller's watercolours of English flowers and grasses
Welcome to our gallery of Turning the Pages™ presentations - high-quality digital facsimiles of manuscripts which replicate the physical experience of reading the original works as closely as possible.
Welcome to our gallery of Turning the Pages™ presentations - high-quality digital facsimiles of manuscripts which replicate the physical experience of reading the original works as closely as possible. We hope that these will give you a flavour of the fascinating and diverse range of material held within our collections. We will be adding more items soon.
Academic Earth Is The Hulu For Education
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/24/academic-earth-is-the-hulu-for-education/
Lots of free adult education. Kind of a crowded field. Wonder how much of it is can help people get jobs or help create new kinds of work. "This isn’t a radically new idea. Fora.TV and BigThink both offer intellectual video content online. iTunes U hosts a lot of university content as well (as does Youtube Edu). Unlike Big Think, Academic Earth isn’t creating original content, it’s just repurposing existing academic content. And Fora.TV seems to focus more on speeches and public lectures. But Academic Earth has the right plan around providing free course lectures. You can watch an entire semester’s worth of lectures in a few days (if your brain can handle it). My one complaint is that for an academic site, it doesn’t seem to engage the user via forums, comments, social networking features, or ads. Ludlow says that all of these features and applications will be introduced slowly."
Academic Earth is "a user-friendly platform for educational video that would let anyone be able to freely access instruction from the scholars and guest lecturers at the leading academic universities. The site offers 60 full courses and 2,395 total lectures (almost 1300 hours of video) from Yale, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Princeton that can be browsed by subject, university, or instructor through a user-friendly interface."
A user-friendly platform for educational video that lets anyone freely access instruction from the scholars and guest lecturers at the leading academic universities. The site offers 60 full courses and 2,395 total lectures (almost 1300 hours of video) from Yale, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Princeton that can be browsed by subject, university, or instructor through a user-friendly interface.
100 Time-Saving Search Engines for Serious Scholars | Online Universities
http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2010/03/100-time-saving-search-engines-for-serious-scholars/
Undergraduates and grad students alike will appreciate the usefulness of these search engines that allow them to find books, journal articles and even primary source material for whatever kind of research they’re working on and that return only serious, academic results so time isn’t wasted on unprofessional resources.
Teach Philosophy 101 > Home
http://www.teachphilosophy101.org/
"This site presents strategies and resources for faculty members and graduate assistants who are teaching Introduction to Philosophy courses; it also includes material of interest to college faculty generally. The mission of TΦ101 is to provide free, user-friendly resources to the academic community."
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Indiana's Academic Standards & Resources
http://www.indianastandards.org/index.asp
This site has Indiana's curriculum standards and resource.
Database of over 5,000 lessons and classroom assessments aligned to Indiana standards. These have been selected by teachers.
Showcase of Academic and Higher Education Websites - Smashing Magazine
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/03/19/showcase-of-academic-and-higher-education-websites/
some very pretty websites
College and university websites have a lot of roles to fill. They need to provide information for prospective students (both new and transfer), parents of students
College and university websites have a lot of roles to fill. They need to provide information for prospective students (both new and transfer), parents of students and prospective students, current students, and alumni. In many cases, they’re also the gateway to the school’s intranet and the public face for both academics and athletics. They often need to include reams of information in a way that makes everything easy to find. It’s a huge challenge. And the truth is: most college and university websites are horribly designed. Either they look like they were designed fifteen years ago and then forgotten about, or they’re so overloaded with information that it’s almost impossible to find what you’re looking for. But not every college or university website is horrible. There are some excellent sites out there, and below are some of them. If you know others, please share them in the comments to this post!
State Board of Education: State Academic Standards
http://www.pde.state.pa.us/stateboard_ed/cwp/view.asp?Q=76716
Access point to all the Pennsylvania State Board of Education's "State Academic Standards" -- scroll down to find PDF and MS-Word versions of the standards for "Environment & Ecology" and "Science & Technology"
State Standards used to make lesson plans
This is a link to the PA State Standards
Newswise Business News | Economists Say Copyright and Patent Laws Are Killing Innovation; Hurting Economy
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/549822/?sc=dwhn
2009
Patent and copyright law are stifling innovation and threatening the global economy according to two economists at Washington University in St. Louis in a new book, Against Intellectual Monopoly. Professors Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine call for abolishing the current patent and copyright system in order to unleash innovations necessary to reverse the current recession and rescue the economy. The professors discuss their stand against intellectual property protections in a video and news release linked here.
According to two economists at Washington University in St. Louis in a new book, Against Intellectual Monopoly. But that's the opposite of what they were designed for...
Peter Suber, Open Access News
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/03/mit-adopts-university-wide-oa-mandate.html
March 2009
News about MIT OA mandate: http://tinyurl.com/c9w4cl [from http://twitter.com/MyOpenArchive/statuses/1399671252]
Peter Suber writes about and comments on MIT's decision to adopt a faculty-wide OA policy, the first of a university doing so across all its departments unanimously. As he rightfully points out, this will send out strong signals to lawmakers and other educational institutions.
0309 - Each Faculty member grants to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology nonexclusive permission to make available his or her scholarly articles and to exercise the copyright in those articles for the purpose of open dissemination. In legal terms, each Faculty member grants to MIT a nonexclusive, irrevocable, paid-up, worldwide license to exercise any and all rights under copyright relating to each of his or her scholarly articles, in any medium, provided that the articles are not sold for a profit, and to authorize others to do the same. The policy will apply to all scholarly articles written while the person is a member of the Faculty except for any articles completed before the adoption of this policy and any articles for which the Faculty member entered into an incompatible licensing or assignment agreement before the adoption of this policy. The Provost or Provost's designate will waive application of the policy for a particular article upon written notification by...
Academic Earth's online video lectures let you go to Harvard for free. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine
http://www.slate.com/id/2211591/
Over the last few months, I've been trying to educate myself on our financial crisis. To that end, I dropped in on a class at Yale that examined real estate finance and the roots of the federal government's involvement in the mortgage industry. "A lot of people have the impression that home prices only go up," my professor, economist Robert Shiller, told us. But this was clearly wrong: Shiller put up a graph showing American home prices during the last 100 years. Over much of the century, the line fluctuates wildly; then, around 2000, it begins an unprecedented, inexplicable spike, even larger than the run-up in prices after World War II.* This was an eye-opener. Anyone who'd seen this graph three or four years ago should have known we were headed for trouble. Who knew school could be this useful? Perhaps Alan Greenspan should have taken this class.
Academic Earth's online video lectures - - By Farhad Manjoo -
It's like Hulu, but for nerds. Many of the professors are great teachers, and, unlike in college, I can go to class on my own time—which ensures that I'm not too sleepy to understand what's going on. Academic Earth achieves something like what Google was trying to pull off with Knol, the messy encyclopedialike project that the search engine launched last year. Both sites let you learn from recognized experts rather than from the anonymous crowds who populate Wikipedia. But Academic Earth bests Knol, because the experts here aren't just throwing up their opinions whenever the mood strikes them. Instead, they're doing their jobs—teaching in actual classrooms, at recognized universities, to real, live, students.
michigan / 23 / 03 / 2009 / News / Home - Inside Higher Ed
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/03/23/michigan
""I have been increasingly convinced that the business model based on printed monograph was not merely failing but broken," said Phil Pochoda, director of the Michigan press. "Why try to fight your way through this? Why try to remain in territory you know is doomed? Scholarly presses will be primarily digital in a decade. Why not seize the opportunity to do it now?""
"Michigan officials say that their move reflects a belief that it's time to stop trying to make the old economics of scholarly publishing work. 'I have been increasingly convinced that the business model based on printed monograph was not merely failing but broken,' said Phil Pochoda, director of the Michigan press. 'Why try to fight your way through this? Why try to remain in territory you know is doomed? Scholarly presses will be primarily digital in a decade. Why not seize the opportunity to do it now?'"
Scholarly publishing takes a digital hit.
The University of Michigan Press is announcing today that it will shift its scholarly publishing from being primarily a traditional print operation to one that is primarily digital. Within two years, press officials expect well over 50 of the 60-plus monographs that the press publishes each year -- currently in book form -- to be released only in digital editions. Readers will still be able to use print-on-demand systems to produce versions that can be held in their hands, but the press will consider the digital monograph the norm. Many university presses are experimenting with digital publishing, but the Michigan announcement may be the most dramatic to date by a major university press.
"The University of Michigan Press is announcing today that it will shift its scholarly publishing from being primarily a traditional print operation to one that is primarily digital."
The University of Michigan Press is announcing today that it will shift its scholarly publishing from being primarily a traditional print operation to one that is primarily digital. Michigan officials say that their move reflects a belief that it's time to stop trying to make the old economics of scholarly publishing work. Michigan officials said that they don't plan to cut the budget of the press -- but to devote resources to peer review and other costs of publishing that won't change with the new model. Significantly, they said, the press would no longer have to reject books deemed worthy from a scholarly perspective, but viewed as unable to sell. ...move to the idea that a university press should be judged by its contribution to scholarship, not "profit or loss," which has become too central as the economics of print publishing have deteriorated. The shift is not designed to save money, but to make better use of the money being spent on the press. [good stuff in comments too]
3 shell scripts: Kill weasel words, avoid the passive, eliminate duplicates
http://matt.might.net/articles/shell-scripts-for-passive-voice-weasel-words-duplicates/
Even in this example, I personally have no problem with using we.
#!/bin/bash weasels="many|various|very|fairly|several|extremely\ |exceedingly|quite|remarkably|few|surprisingly\ |mostly|largely|huge|tiny|((are|is) a number)\ |excellent|interestingly|significantly\ |substantially|clearly|vast|relatively|completely" wordfile="" # Check for an alternate weasel file if [ -f $HOME/etc/words/weasels ]; then wordfile="$HOME/etc/words/weasels" fi if [ -f $WORDSDIR/weasels ]; then wordfile="$WORDSDIR/weasels" fi if [ -f words/weasels ]; then wordfile="words/weasels" fi if [ ! "$wordfile" = "" ]; then weasels="xyzabc123"; for w in `cat $wordfile`; do weasels="$weasels|$w" done fi if [ "$1" = "" ]; then echo "usage: `basename $0` <file> ..." exit fi egrep -i -n --color "\\b($weasels)\\b" $* exit $?
Kill weasel words, avoid the passive, eliminate duplicates