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 Photo Credits: tnooz After reading some of the innovative and informative blog posts from #MANG2049 and #UOSM2033, I have found some key learning points about Open Access (OA) that I initially didn’t know about. Taking into considerations from different perspectives, Ru Huan explained about music aspect which I can relate to. If there’s a particular singer that I like, I would be willing to purchase his/her albums for the superior quality music. Continue reading →

So…. Utopian Dream or Unstoppable Force? This topic was rather new to me at first, getting to know that such free content and information online is known as ‘Open Access’. Having read many blogs by my peers, it is rather obvious that many of us have the same view on free, open access to contents online. I would like to point out to Novina’s and Patricia’s post where they heavily emphasise on the monetary cost of paying online information. Continue reading →

Howdy there again! Still at the topic of Open Access and Content Providers, I have garnered some interesting points from my course-mates’ blog posts. A number of of my course-mates’ blogs such as Simon have mentioned the need of logistic feasibility for a need in the long run for the sustainability of Open Access. Continue reading →

Reading my classmate’s blogs, there are so many advantages and disadvantages that are similar yet I have not talked about. As this topic involves all of us in the world of academia, all of us do have some sort of passion towards it. After commenting on Elisha’s and Xiu Zhen’s post, I can infer that the objective of the content producer is extremely important as publishing a document do cost. Continue reading →

It was interesting to watch the videos that my peers created and one key issue that many pointed out was the sustainability of open access in the long run. Both Sherdale and Zoie have the same stand that open access should be supported as not everyone can afford to pay for resources and I definitely am on the same page as them. I agree that “learning is sharing” (Sherdale, 2014) and open access “helps in the development of knowledge” (Zoie,2014). Continue reading →

Prior to my previous post, I felt that the topic discussed is relatively wide and there would be different views from different people. I was right! Look at what I’ve learned today: Ebrahim mentioned coursera, an online learning platform. Honestly, I was drawn to his post title “I got my degree for $0″. I couldn’t believe that this was true till I read this post. Continue reading →

Most of my classmates would have agreed that open access definitely is beneficial for a student but maybe not so much as a content publisher. Most importantly, we must give credits to the author by citing the information back to the website. After all we are just “borrowing” a part of information or writings from them so I believe a form of recognition needs to be given. Continue reading →

Photocredit: cynicalbabblings.wordpress.com Advantage Photocredit: www.dreamstime.com One of the benefits that producers can enjoy when making their materials accessible freely online is larger publicity. Leveraging on OER platforms for instance allow producers of the content (eg. researchers or educational institutes) to reach out to a wider audience and thereby achieve greater publicity and viewership/readership of their work. Take Standford University for instance. Continue reading →

Have you spotted the key differences? Maybe its hard to tell from the video. Go take a look in your browser, Vice & The Straits Times. There are no ads or paywalls on Vice News. Clearly, Vice must be at some kind of disadvantage by providing all that free content on its site right? Not quite. Sure, Vice is dependent on the ad industry, but what vice is doing is adopting a loss-leader strategy on its main news site, a way to drive traffic to sponsored content. Continue reading →