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Apart from my own findings on Open Access, I have discovered more interesting findings and receive further insight on Open Access. I personally like to thank Vanessa for her question on the credibility of an online degree as compared to traditional degree. Continue reading →

Ever encountered having to purchase an online article just for your research purposes on the Internet? Below is an example. Ever wonder what is the cause of this? Well, the answer is simple; you are not accessing an open access file. Wait, do you mean not everything on the internet is freely accessible? Yes, you got that right. According to Open Access Blog, Open Access is a free and immediate online availability of research articles (Open Access Button). Continue reading →

Honestly speaking, in regards to my previous post, I think I have written out of scope because I could not specify more and relate social bashing towards the educational ethic measure. Continue reading →

Credits: maristpoll.marist.edu In a world where we have the freedom of speech and the control over our own social networks, it is very easy for us to fall into the pit hole of living in the world of itself. Therefore, it is of great importance for us to know some of the ethical issues that are raised by the social media. In my post, I will be focusing on the ethical issues raised by the educational use of social media. One of the ethical issues that has gotten my attention is social bashing. Continue reading →

Credits: multiflow.net As compared to the previous two reflection summaries, this time I have taken more time to read through more classmates’ posts about online professional profiling. Quite a huge span of them has mentioned about the ways of developing professional online profile, mine was not an exception as well. Also, a number of them have actually mentioned about online profiles replacing resumes in the employer recruitment process. Continue reading →

Credits: http://jazzcurzon.com/ As discussed in the previous post about having single or multiple digital identities, we all know that as long as we remain consistent with our online accounts, it doesn’t matter whether we have multiple digital identities or not. However, speaking of having an authentic online professional profile, I think it all blot down to this term called self-branding. Self-branding is like a signal in the noise of the human capital (Tomas, ‘The Future of You’, 2013). Continue reading →

credits: pinimg.com, Isaac’s blog After reading Isaac’s blogpost on Topic 2, I have gained further insight about major digital identities. Currently, I would consider myself to have both transactional and social digital identities. I presume that my transactional digital identity will be my Qoo10 (commonly called as ‘Gmarket’ in Singapore) account; it is an online shopping website. My social identity will definitely be my Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. Continue reading →