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The topic of Open Access has sparked interesting contributions from blog’s Authors. Firstly, although in general it seems everyone appreciated the idea of Open Science, some legitimate voices of concern were raised. Secondly, there seemed to be a division in terms of post topics, with the largest group focusing on Open Access in Academia, while the rest of students wrote about same notion applied more generally to content on the Web (especially journalism). Continue reading →

Imagine you are a content producer: an academic who wrote a research paper. You did your job, now you want to share it with the World. Below, I am going to argue for one thing: make it available on the Internet for free. The free arXiv Physics archive (1991) begun a small revolution in the scientific world. Traditionally, a scientist would submit his paper to a peer-reviewed journal. Continue reading →

I thought that the nature of the question asked prepared me for the wave of different issues and viewpoints presented by students, but the variety of posts surprised me once again. At that point during the module everyone seems to have a deeper awareness of the issues and possibilities created by massive use of the Internet. However, the way in which one used this information in order to identify and describe ethical issues surprised me. Continue reading →

The biggest disruption made by technology in education in recent years has been the invention of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) [1]. They consists of a series of videos, additional reading and accompanying exercises delivered via the Internet for free.The opportunity to take such courses, lectured by world-class researchers from best universities in the world, has been seized by millions of people. Creation of such online module costs. Continue reading →

This week brought an insight into the importance of development of online professional identity. What struck me during preparations for writing my own post, but also while reading others contributions was the extent to which recruiters use social media and online search to review candidates. Which leaves us, the job-seekers of some sort, with no choice but to curate our professional online profile. Throughout this week, I believe I have taken a crash-course in the basic principles of doing so. Continue reading →

Traditional networking may be more important than ever, but in a global and fast-paced economy we need to use the Web to be noticed. It enables us to reach much wider audience than through meetings and business cards exchange. As more and more recruiters scorch the Internet, and especially social media, in search of possible candidates, the online profile is what may be a key to finding one’s ideal job. Continue reading →

The second topic of the course seemed like a natural continuation of previous blog posts. From question How do you interact with the Internet? we have gone to discuss a more detailed problem: whether it is beneficial to have a single or multiple online identities. I was astonished by the number of ways students approached this topic. Continue reading →

The second topic of the course seemed like a natural continuation of previous blog posts. From question How do you interact with the Internet? we have gone to discuss a more detailed problem: whether it is beneficial to have a single or multiple online identities. I was astonished by the number of ways students approached this topic. Continue reading →

Trying to decide whether it is better to keep a unified online identity, or break it into pieces, I began to think about our offline identity. Are we really coherent personas in real life? I doubt it. For example, there is a difference between my behaviour in my tutor’s office and in a pub. Although some part of my character is observable in both situations, there is a clear difference in how I present myself depending on environment. For me, it is some form of a connected identity. Continue reading →

Topic one introduced the notion of Residents and Visitors of the Web as opposed to an older topography of the Internet, which divided its users upon Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives. Whilst the initial categorisation focused on the importance of the age of the user: ‘nativity’ would correspond to people born in the age of the web, the new categorisation focused only on how one uses the Web. Continue reading →