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Salim Said Bani Orabah deposited Investigating the Relationship among Academic Qualification, Teaching Experience and Writing Proficiency on Classroom-based Writing in the group
Open Educational Resources on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoWriting Assessment Literacy (WAL). However, it is neglected in Iranian context. Taking the importance of academic qualification, writing proficiency and teaching experience with regard to writing assessment, the present quantitative study made attempt to investigate the effect of academic qualification, writing proficiency and teaching experience…[Read more]
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Salim Said Bani Orabah deposited The impact of Oral and Written Story reconstruction on L2 Vocabulary Learning and Retention: A case of EFL Young Learners in the group
Open Educational Resources on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoWord acquisition was one of the important and essential parts for language learning. One of the learning difficulties that many L2 learners at all ages and proficiency levels face was meaningful vocabulary learning and retention as opposed to rote memorization of L2 words. Therefore, this study attempted to investigate the effectiveness of the…[Read more]
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Salim Said Bani Orabah deposited Facet Variability in the Light of Rater Training in Measuring Oral Performance: A Multifaceted Rasch Analysis in the group
Open Educational Resources on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoDue to subjectivity in oral assessment, much concentration has been put on obtaining a satisfactory measure of consistency among raters. However, obtaining consistency might not result in valid decisions. One matter that is at the core of both reliability and validity in oral performance is rater training. Recently, the Multifaceted Rasch…[Read more]
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Liz Sparg deposited Generation to Generation in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoThis book brings together thirteen contributors from diverse backgrounds – mean and women born in Cameroon, England, Scotland, South Africa, Zambia. What they all have in common is years of service within their respective communities, working individually and within projects and programmes, with both young people and adults to build social c…[Read more]
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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 2 years, 10 months agoHi all, Open Book Publishers is looking for a new book designer and typesetter with a passion for open access — please share with anyone who might be interested! https://www.openbookpublishers.com/about/vacancies-and-training
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Heather Thaxter deposited ‘Broadcasting Change: in empathic dialogue with Duffy and Jennings’s graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower’ in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoAbstract: “Broadcasting change: in empathic dialogue with Duffy and Jennings’s graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower,” analyzes the medium-specificity of the adaptation by applying a combined theoretical approach that incorporates cognitive narratology and narrative empathy. A discursive dialogue between the two media…[Read more]
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Timothy W. Elfenbein deposited The Challenge of Metadata Distribution for Open-Access Books in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoIntroduction for the Challenges of Metadata Distribution for Open-Access Books session.
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Tom Mosterd replied to the topic Job ads section for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoHi everyone, we have a new vacancy at the DOAB & OAPEN for the role of Community Manager, responsible for the development of and engagement with our library community. This is a full-time position. OAPEN and DOAB have their offices in The Hague in the Netherlands, but the position is open to working remotely.
Application deadline by March 31st.…[Read more]
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David Watson replied to the topic Is there a list of Open Monograph schemes? in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoMany thanks for this assistance!
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Tobias Steiner replied to the topic Is there a list of Open Monograph schemes? in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoHi David, that’s indeed an excellent question, and just to add to John’s mention of the OATP, there’s also an option to narrow one’s search down via boolean operators, so searching for oa.business_models AND oa.books will provide you with a more specific version of the list that John mentioned…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Is there a list of Open Monograph schemes? in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 2 years, 12 months agoHi David, excellent question! John makes a great suggestion with OATP, which is really useful in keeping up with new announcements and current developments. The difficulty with any online list is keeping it up to date — as you note, there are a lot of new initiatives like Path To Open launching at the moment. My colleague Tom Grady and I recently…[Read more]
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John Sherer replied to the topic Is there a list of Open Monograph schemes? in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 2 years, 12 months agoPeter Suber created the OA Tracking Project
If you search by tags of business models, you get a pretty good list (including the new Path to Open)
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David Watson started the topic Is there a list of Open Monograph schemes? in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 3 years agoThere’s now a fair number of different Open Monograph schemes, running different models or variations of models – and new schemes keep launching, ie ‘Path to Open‘ that just launched. This is great, but does mean it’s difficult to keep track of what the current OA monograph landscape looks like.
Is there anywhere a list of these different schemes?
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Tom Mosterd replied to the topic Job ads section for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 3 years agoHello, we’re looking for a Finance & Administration Officer to join the OAPEN Team (fluent in Dutch and English). The Finance & Administration Officer will help us with the financial management of OAPEN’s operational and project activities. More…[Read more]
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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 3 years, 2 months agoHi all, next Thursday (17th November) at 3pm GMT we’re looking forward to speaking with OABN stalwart Eric Hellman at our next boOkmArks event, about his work with Project Gutenberg and Distributed Proofreaders and how these experiences have informed his perspectives on the early days of open access and more recent developments in OA books.
Eric…[Read more]
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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 3 years, 2 months agoHi all, next week we’re really looking forward to talking to Christina Drummond and Lucy Montgomery to discuss the OAeBU Usage Data project and the new developments the work will take over the coming years:
Wednesday 9th November, 1pm GMT, ‘Open Access Usage Data: Present Knowledge, Future Developments’: Sign up here!
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