Via Robin Good
Research and publish the best content.
Get Started for FREE
Sign up with Facebook Sign up with X
I don't have a Facebook or a X account
Already have an account: Login
Latest Social Media News
112.8K views |
+0 today
 Your new post is loading...
Your new post is loading...
Scoop.it!
"BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system built on over fourteen open source components to create an integrated solution that runs on Mac, Unix, and PC computers. In the true sense of open source, we invite you to try out and participate in our project.
2) Layout Manager – BigBlueButton now enables users to choose from a number of preset layouts to quickly adapt to different modes of learning.
3) Recording of whiteboard and webcams – BigBlueButton now records for playback all the activity in the presentation window (whiteboard, mouse movements, and pan/zoom) and all webcams shared during a session.
4) Text tool for whiteboard – Presenters can now annotate their slides with text.
5) New APIs – The BigBlueButton API now includes the ability to dynamically configure each client on a per-user bases, thus enabling developers to configure the skin, layout, modules, etc. for each user. There is also a JavaScript interface to control the client.
6) Accessibility – BigBlueButton now supports screen readers JAWS (version 11+) and NVDA. A list of keyboard shortcuts have been added to make it easier to navigate through the interface using the keyboard.
7) LTI Support – BigBlueButton is IMS Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) 1.0 compliant. This means any LTI consumer can integrate with BigBlueButton without requiring custom plug-ins.
8) Mozilla Persona – The API demos now include examples of how to sign into a BigBlueButton session using Mozilla Persona. Via ghbrett 
ghbrett's curator insight,
July 1, 2013 3:11 PM
This sounds like an exciting alternative educational, training, and groupware tool. I will be participating in a group test later next week and will make a further comment then. |
Scoop.it!
From
incited
"To incite important educational initiatives and innovations that benefit learners and their communities around the world. We want to provide a powerful and intuitive platform where educators can:
We aim to do this by simplifying the process of contributing to excellent projects worldwide for all who share the goal of bettering education."
from source: - http://incited.org/ Via ghbrett
ghbrett's curator insight,
July 8, 2013 12:29 PM
It's great to see a crowdfunding (crowdsource funding) site for Education! Have a look and see if your education or training activities might benefit from such funding or at least the exposure to this community online.
Scoop.it!
"Open Access - By Peter Suber
NOW AVAILABLE IN MULTIPLE OPEN ACCESS FORMATS
... The Internet lets us share perfect copies of our work with a worldwide audience at virtually no cost. We take advantage of this revolutionary opportunity when we make our work “open access”: digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Open access is made possible by the Internet and copyright-holder consent, and many authors, musicians, filmmakers, and other creators who depend on royalties are understandably unwilling to give their consent. But for 350 years, scholars have written peer-reviewed journal articles for impact, not for money, and are free to consent to open access without losing revenue.
In this concise introduction, Peter Suber tells us what open access is and isn’t, how it benefits authors and readers of research, how we pay for it, how it avoids copyright problems, how it has moved from the periphery to the mainstream, and what its future may hold. Distilling a decade of Suber’s influential writing and thinking about open access, this is the indispensable book on the subject for researchers, librarians, administrators, funders, publishers, and policy makers." -- from source: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/open-access Via ghbrett
ghbrett's curator insight,
June 18, 2013 4:44 PM
Peter Suber has been a driving force in the rapidly growing area(s) of Open Access. Rather than cite this or that have a look at his info at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Suber Here is a wonderful resource for anyone who uses Internet resources. Get a copy for a eBook-Reader, a computer, or your Boss, but don't forget yourself. Then Read it and then keep as a handy reference resource. |
AcademicTorrents is a new web service which allows any organization owning large datasets (no size limits) to easily distribute them without needing a dedicated infrastructure.
The brainchild of Joseph Cohen and Henry Lo, two PhD students working at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, Academic Torrents facilitates the job of researchers, journalists and information analysts in finding, accessing, curating and downloading large-size datasets.
Technically-speaking AcademicTorrents is a bittorrent-type redundant high-speed network and a full distributed system for sharing enormous datasets. As a P2P system it doesn't require intermediate servers, is also fully scalable, secure, fault-tolerant and can act as a reliable repository for data allowing fast downloads.
Users can also search the full index, and can create curated datasets collections containing any kind of files and which can be downloaded as a full bundle.
This type of system could prove to be an excellent resource for libraries storing digital papers as they would store books, and for simplifying the distribution requirements of any organization needing to publish, curate and share large datasets.
"A robust distributed replication design allows libraries to utilize this system as their backbone. Providing fault tolerant hosting of curated data for a university, research lab, or home library.
...Also, this system can be used as the foundation of a new open-access publishing system where libraries manage data instead of licenses for external data sources."
Find out more: http://academictorrents.com/
More info: http://academictorrents.com/about.php
Browse Datasets: http://academictorrents.com/browse.php?cat=6
Browse Papers: http://academictorrents.com/browse.php?cat=5
Zeker verder te onderzoeken in de context van het aspect "bibliotheek" als het aspect "data resources".
"AcademicTorrents is a new web service which allows any organization owning large datasets (no size limits) to easily distribute them without needing a dedicated infrastructure."
Robin Good