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Ernesto Priego posted an update in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoFrom Monday 24 May 2021, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship will only consider submissions in response to our ongoing calls for papers. Full info: https://www.comicsgrid.com/news/446/
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Tom Mosterd replied to the topic Open infrastructure for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoHi everyone, I’d like to share an exciting development for our Open Infrastructures in the U.S. (the Directory of Open Acccess Books (DOAB) and OAPEN).
Earlier this week we announced a Collective-Action agreement between DOAB, OAPEN and the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), becoming a part of the BTAA member libraries’ “strategic portfolio of…[Read more]
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Alexios Brailas deposited Digital storytelling and the narrative turn in psychology: Creating spaces for collective empowerment in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoIn this article, we propose a model that combines digital storytelling with narrative practice to create a facilitated peer-to-peer experiential learning space for collective empowerment. This model was inspired by an educational intervention that utilized participatory digital comic strip making to raise students’ awareness of bullying and its c…[Read more]
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John Mark R. Asio deposited Demographic Profiles and Procrastination of Employees: Relationships and Determinants in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoProcrastination is a plague that affects an individual’s working attitude and behavior. In relation, the organization will also suffer and its constituents along the way. This study assessed the demographic profile and the degree of procrastination among selected employees from a higher education institution in Central Luzon, Philippines. The s…[Read more]
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Subhashish Panigrahi deposited Bringing Ol Chiki to the digital world in the group
Open Educational Resources on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoCan a typeface turn the fate of an indigenous language around by making communication possible on digital platforms and driving digital activism? In 2014, a project was initiated with financial support from the Access to Knowledge programme at The Center for Internet and Society, Bangalore to look for answers to this question. The project’s goal w…[Read more]
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JOVENIL BACATAN deposited Module on Fractions in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThis module deals with fractions. This includes how to order and compare fractions and how to perform operations on fractions and apply these basic concepts to problem-solving. This module also includes common errors committed by students in dealing with fractions.
The module is divided into three lessons, namely: Lesson 1 – Rational Numbers w…[Read more]
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Subhashish Panigrahi deposited Gyani Maiya (2019 documentary) in the group
Open Educational Resources on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoNo community can express the pain of losing an elder, especially when she was the last fluent speaker of their language.
Gyani Maiya Sen-Kusunda died on January 25, 2020 in Kulmor village of Dang district in western Nepal, a year and half before this documentary was filmed. From leaving behind the life of a nomad to getting married to a…[Read more]
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Agata Morka replied to the topic Job ads section for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoOpen Position: Libraries Outreach Associate at Punctum Books. Closing date May 31.
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic A Plan S for books: Voices from the Community in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoSession three: Voices from the Open Access Books Community – Green OA for Books
The video recording of the main session is here: https://youtu.be/DBaNh1nBBiQ- The chat from the meeting is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sOdSXAZU4WvmnDXrQDLDm4oNPXJpxSfShy9yg8d10Sg/edit?usp=sharing
Meeting notes:
- Breakout 1: https://drive.go…
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JOVENIL BACATAN deposited Reasons Why Students Dislike Mathematics in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoMathematics is considered a dreaded subject for many students. When talking about Mathematics, any topics under the subject, a lot of students find several excuses on avoiding the talk about numbers. There are three reasons highlighted, to wit: teacher factor, the use of variables in Mathematics to daily life, and “mental culture”.
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Kenneth Mayer deposited The Golden Line: An Exercise that Changed an Academic Discipline in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoWhat happens when an exercise succeeds too well? Could a school exercise designed to teach
a foreign language also influence how a discipline interprets its central literary texts?
For centuries in Britain, Latin versification was the pinnacle of both pedagogy and scholarship,
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Subhashish Panigrahi deposited Karinding (2020 documentary) in the group
Open Educational Resources on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoIlham Nurwansah’s passion of archiving and even reviving Sundanese culture did not stop at carving “Karinding”, a musical instrument made of bamboo. A Sundanese saying goes — “language is the identity of [a] nation” (Sundanese: asa téh cicirén bangsa”). The colonization era was complicated for Indonesia — a country with 700 languages — as it i…[Read more]
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A. David Lewis deposited Bringing Superheroes into the Fight against COVID-19 Misinformation in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoOver the past year, artists, doctors, medical professionals, and international agencies such as the World Health Organisation have been using comics to communicate the risks of the SARS-CoV2 virus. The visual economy and a near-universal language of lines, balloons, and panels in comics makes them well suited to disseminate epidemic-related…[Read more]
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JOVENIL BACATAN deposited Child and Adolescent Development Lecture Notes in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThis lecture notes focus on developmental processes that occur from conception through the end of adolescence and also include theories of human development.
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Victor Nnadozie deposited Beyond Matchmaking: Peer Mentor Role and Leadership Development in a Student Mentorship Program in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThe mentorship programme in the school of education of a South African university shows what is possible in peer mentor leadership development. Through the analysis of first-year student mentees’ perceptions, experiences, and assessment of their peer mentors’ roles, and accounts of the mentors’ review of their role in the mentorship progr…[Read more]
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Tom Mosterd replied to the topic Business Models for Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoOn April 7th, OPERAS and OASPA organised a workshop on ‘Innovative business models for open access book publishing – six approaches in Europe’. These six approaches were all applied to small or medium-sized academic book publishers and may be relevant for any small or medium-sized publisher interested in OA book publishing.
A short report, along…[Read more]
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Tom Mosterd started the topic Licensing and open access books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoOpen access books usually take a Creative Commons (CC) licence which permits authors to retain copyright, whilst allowing readers to redistribute, re-use and adapt the content in new works under the terms of whichever licence is applied.
Which particular licence is deemed suitable for an open access book can differ depending on the preference and…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic A Plan S for books: Voices from the Community in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoSession two: Voices from the Open Access Books Community – Quality Assurance and Transparency
The video recording of the main session is here: https://youtu.be/ooFGnKcdAQg
- The chat from the meeting is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NURw-KjT-zQZ1VAmSrghB02jF5JIPD5VD4dKqz5smyo/edit?usp=sharing
Meeting notes:
- Breakout 1…
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic bOokmArks events – Open Conversations about Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThe video is available from our talk with Dr. Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra, the Open Science Officer at DARIAH-EU, about a new bursary to fund early-career researchers (ECRs) working in the Digital Humanities who want to publish an Open Access monograph: https://youtu.be/FDN0tTLrVTA
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Job ads section for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoJust re-upping this post about the COPIM WP5 Product Manager for Open Medatada System (Full-time or Part-time) @ Open Book Publishers, which closes on FRIDAY https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/open-position-product-manager-ft-or-pt/
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