Friday, August 13, 2004

Nanotech aids green hydrogen production. British company splits water [The Register] 12:37:24 PM      Google It!.

Student Assessment of Learning Gains. Nice website that was shown by Univ Maine participant Mitchell Bruce in our ILN workshop in Bellingham this week: Student Assessment of Learning Gains -- Web Site ...free site is designed for instructors of all disciplines who would like feedback from their students about how the course elements are helping their students to learn."... [Michelle's Online Learning Freakout Party Zone] 12:32:48 PM      Google It!.

DNA spit kits for traffic wardens. Wardens in Edinburgh are to be issued with DNA kits in an effort to track down people who spit at them. [BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition] 8:53:37 AM      Google It!.

Open Source in California Government [Slashdot:] 8:51:54 AM      Google It!.

Net Publishing Made Profitable. Adam Engst of e-publisher TidBits has tried it all: ads, subscriptions and tip jars. Now he's hit pay dirt with a series of quick and dirty e-books distributed using a system he calls 'extreme publishing.' By Leander Kahney. [Wired News] taking the delays out of publishing can work well in niche publishing when combined with low cost $5-$10.  This is closer to special issue magazine publishing in some ways. -- BL 7:06:42 AM      Google It!.

Delivering Online Examinations: A Case Study - Jason HOWARTH, John MESSING, Irfan ALTAS; TOJDE. ....Students in these courses are geographically dispersed, located throughout Australia and overseas from Canada and the USA to the United Arab Emirates. Conducting conventional examinations under these conditions brings with it a host of challenges. [Online Learning Update] 6:55:23 AM      Google It!.

OA to Canadian social science and humanities research. The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) has written a Brief to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, June 29, 2004. The brief recommends ways in which Canada's Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) might transform itself, especially to promote new and more effective forms of scholarly communication. It recommends (p. 4) that the SSHRC sign the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), "work actively" toward the BOAI's goals, allocate a percentage of each SSHRC research grant to OA journal publication fees, consider requiring SSHRC grant recipients to deposit their work in OA archives, and work with other Granting Councils to develop a Canadian national policy for open access to taxpayer-funded research. (Thanks to Colin Steele.) [Open Access News] 6:52:57 AM      Google It!.

BBC Begins Open-Source Streaming Challenge [Slashdot:] 6:51:52 AM      Google It!.