Evil Academic Overlords for Peer-Review Reform
As I’ve started copyediting the last batch of accepted manuscripts for Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA) from my editorial tenure, I’ve been thinking of John Willinsky’s and Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s comments about academic publishing, open access, the peer review process, and academic credentialing in general. In his incrementalist “let’s push any move towards more open access” […]
“…and thereby to secure a more arbitrary and unlimited authority”
Yesterday afternoon (at least afternoon in California, where the radio station operates), Sara Goldrick-Rab and Richard Vedder debated who should attend college on KPCC’s Patt Morrison Show. I am disappointed but not too surprised that Vedder skipped over who he generally thinks are the types of people who don’t benefit from college: other people’s children. […]
A hexadecimalful for hacking the academy
I do not regret not applying for THATCamp Prime (The Humanities and Technology unconference) this year, as it fell on the weekend of my anniversary, but I do miss the conversation as I woke up this morning reading the tweets (#thatcamp if you’re curious), and I hope those participating in the game jam write up […]
Texas and reality
Despite what I promised a few hours ago, this entry is not about coeducation, but current events in Texas are pushing my thoughts away from the value of college, at least for now. The rolling disaster that is the lame-duck-infested Texas Board of Education is both agonizing and fascinating, or one step above the formerly-creationist […]
An immodest and hopefully obvious proposal for electronic citations
By Sherman Dorn on May 27, 2010
I had a thought today after reading of Barnes & Noble’s new iPad app, which allows customers to loan/borrow purchased books. I haven’t heard whether the annotations go along with the lending, but it strikes me that academics needing to cite locations in ebooks and those interested in annotation technology both need a way to […]
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