This paper discusses the provision of open educational resources, drawing on the concept of a 'fl... more This paper discusses the provision of open educational resources, drawing on the concept of a 'flat world' (Friedman, 2005). A discourse analytical perspective (Fairclough, 2000) is used to discuss data from example OER initiatives. We enquire how flattening such initiatives are in terms of widening participation and empowering individuals through the access to knowledge.
Godwin, Stephen and McAndrew, Patrick (2008). Exploring user types and what users seek in an open... more Godwin, Stephen and McAndrew, Patrick (2008). Exploring user types and what users seek in an open content based educational resource. In: ED-MEDIA 2008 World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, 30 Jun - 04 Jul 2008, Vienna, Austria.
Behind the Scenes with OpenLearn: The Challenges of Researching the Provision of Open Educational... more Behind the Scenes with OpenLearn: The Challenges of Researching the Provision of Open Educational Resources Stephen Godwin, Patrick McAndrew and Andreia Santos Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK sj godwin@ open. ac. uk p. ...
The OpenLearn initiative at the Open University <http://www.open. ac.uk/openlearn> offers f... more The OpenLearn initiative at the Open University <http://www.open. ac.uk/openlearn> offers free and open access to online material across a wide range of subjects. This material has been placed in on online environ-ment based on the Moodle learning environment together with ...
The Open University is undertaking a major initiative (OpenLearn) to provide free access to learn... more The Open University is undertaking a major initiative (OpenLearn) to provide free access to learning material within an environment that allows learners to work with the material and use tools to help make sense of it, and also allows educators to rework and reuse the material in new ...
Three subspecies are recognized: Mexican Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis lucida), California Spot... more Three subspecies are recognized: Mexican Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis lucida), California Spotted Owl (S. occidentalis occidentalis), and Northern Spotted Owl (S. occidentalis caurina) (Dawson et al. 1986; Wilcove 1987). Starch-gel electrophoresis was unable to detect variation between S. occidentalis occidentalis and S. occidentalis caurina; however, S. occidentalis lucida did show variation, suggesting the possibility of two distinct species (Barrowclough and Gutierrez 1990). In addition, two separate evolutionary histories have been demonstrated by the major allelic frequency difference between occidentalis/caurina and lucida (Barrowclough and Gutierrez 1990). Description The Spotted Owl is considered a medium-sized owl with an average height of about 45 cm, and average wingspan of about 90 cm. The plumage consists largely of dark brown body feathers with a regular pattern of round to elliptical white spots, white horizontal bars on the chest and tail, large dark brown eyes surrounded by tawny facial disk, and no ear tuffs. Male and female Spotted Owls have similar plumage. Females may be distinguished by their comparatively larger body size (females: n = 65, mean = 663 g, SD = 42.8 g; males: n = 68, mean = 579 g, SD = 34.9 g; Blakesley et al. 1990), and higher pitch of their vocalization (Forsman et al. 1984).
The Transportation Research Board (TRB) Research and Technology Coordinating Committee, appointed... more The Transportation Research Board (TRB) Research and Technology Coordinating Committee, appointed by the National Research Council, has published an assessment of the highway research programs funded under the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users. Recommendations and findings address such issues as competitive awards of funding, advanced research, funding cuts, stakeholder-supported programs, dissemination of results, and setting research priorities.
Information Impact: Journal of Information and Knowledge Management
The study investigated the influence of ICT skills on library information resources utilisation b... more The study investigated the influence of ICT skills on library information resources utilisation by undergraduates in two universities in Southwest , Nigeria. Descriptive survey research was adopted for the study. From a population of 32,419 undergraduates in the University of Ibadan and the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, a multi-stage sampling technique was used to select 407 respondents. Questionnaire was the instrument used for data collection. Four hundred and seven copies of questionnaires were administered to respondents, however, 377 were found useful for the analysis. Research questions were answered using descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage and mean distribution, while the research hypothesis was analysed, using Pearson's correlation coefficient and was tested at a 0.05 level of significance. Findings of the study showed that ICT skills possessed by the undergraduates were high. The extent of library information resources utilisation by undergraduates was generally low; however reference materials and monographs/textbooks were highly utilised. The result also revealed that there was significant positive correlation (r = .383 ** ; p< 0.05) between ICT skills and library information resources utilisation. Thus, it was recommended that library management should leveraged on the ICT skill possessed by undergraduates by adopting and implementing ICTs in the provision of library services that would enhance ICT skills and facilitate the utilisation of library information resources by undergraduate.
The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit, self-perpetuating society of distinguis... more The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit, self-perpetuating society of distinguished scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare. On the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has a mandate that requires it to advise the federal government on scientific and technical matters. Dr. Ralph J. Cicerone is president of the National Academy of Sciences. The National Academy of Engineering was established in 1964, under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, as a parallel organization of outstanding engineers. It is autonomous in its administration and in the selection of its members, sharing with the National Academy of Sciences the responsibility for advising the federal government. The National Academy of Engineering also sponsors engineering programs aimed at meeting national needs, encourages education and research, and recognizes the superior achievements of engineers. Dr. Charles M. Vest is president of the National Academy of Engineering. The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public. The Institute acts under the responsibility given to the National Academy of Sciences by its congressional charter to be an adviser to the federal government and, on its own initiative, to identify issues of medical care, research, and education. Dr. Harvey V. Fineberg is president of the Institute of Medicine. The National Research Council was organized by the National Academy of Sciences in 1916 to associate the broad community of science and technology with the Academy's purposes of furthering knowledge and advising the federal government. Functioning in accordance with general policies determined by the Academy, the Council has become the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. The Council is administered jointly by both the Academies and the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Ralph J. Cicerone and Dr. Charles M. Vest are chair and vice chair, respectively, of the National Research Council. The Transportation Research Board is one of six major divisions of the National Research Council. The mission of the Transportation Research Board is to provide leadership in transportation innovation and progress through research and information exchange, conducted within a setting that is objective, interdisciplinary, and multimodal. The Board's varied activities annually engage about 7,000 engineers, scientists, and other transportation researchers and practitioners from the public and private sectors and academia, all of whom contribute their expertise in the public interest. The program is supported by state transportation departments, federal agencies including the component administrations of the U.S. Department of Transportation, and other organizations and individuals interested in the development of transportation. www.TRB.org
Since 1991, dramatic changes have occurred in the genetic composition of populations of Phytophth... more Since 1991, dramatic changes have occurred in the genetic composition of populations of Phytophthora infestans in the United States. Clonal lineages recently introduced into the United States (US-7 and US-8) are more common now than the previously dominant lineage (US-1). To help determine why these changes occurred, four clonal lineages of P. in-festans common during the early 1990s in the United States and Canada were evaluated for sensitivity to the protectant fungicides mancozeb and chlorothalonil using amended agar assays for isolates collected from 1990 to 1994. No isolate or lineage was resistant to either mancozeb or chlorothalonil. There were significant differences among isolates for degree of sensitivity to one fungicide individually, but there were no significant (P = 0.05) differences among the US-1, US-6, US-7, and US-8 clonal lineages for degree of sensitivity to both fungicides. Therefore, resistance to protectant fungicides cannot explain the rapid increase in frequ...
This paper will draw on research being developed within the Teaching and Learning strand of the E... more This paper will draw on research being developed within the Teaching and Learning strand of the ESRC InterActive Education: Learning in the Information Age project which is examining the ways in which new technologies can be used in educational settings to enhance learning. It will focus on the learning and understanding of quadratic functions using a graphical software package and
S eptoria tritici blotch (STB), caused by the ascomycete Mycosphaerella graminicola (synonym: Zym... more S eptoria tritici blotch (STB), caused by the ascomycete Mycosphaerella graminicola (synonym: Zymoseptoria tritici; asexual stage: Septoria tritici), is one of the most common and important diseases of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) worldwide (Eyal et al., 1987). Septoria tritici blotch often is the predominant disease problem of wheat in areas with cool, wet spring weather, such as northern Europe and the United Kingdom, and is usually one of the top three or four diseases in other parts of the world, depending on the year. Even when other diseases such as leaf and stem
... FOR RESISTANCE TO SEPTORIA TRITICI BLOTCH IN WHEAT Stephen B. Goodwin1, Jessica R. Cavaletto1... more ... FOR RESISTANCE TO SEPTORIA TRITICI BLOTCH IN WHEAT Stephen B. Goodwin1, Jessica R. Cavaletto1, Iago Lowe2, Ian Thompson1, Steven X ... Target region amplification polymorphism (TRAP) marker analysis (Hu and Vick, 2003) on parents and bulks with nine fixed ...
Open content could change the experience of developing learning materials. Fulantelli, Gentile, T... more Open content could change the experience of developing learning materials. Fulantelli, Gentile, Taibi and Allegri consider open resources as an evolution in the way educational material can be produced, presenting an overall model relating learning objects to open content and identifying potential benefits for the lifecycle of educational material if an open approach is more widely adopted. Conole and Weller also consider the teachers' perspective in terms of how to design content to work in the open world and the sort of tools that would aid the learning designer. Mor and Winters look at a similar design process by representing designs as learning patterns that can be reinterpreted and describe a way in which they have use participation in workshops to elicit possible patterns. The learner experience is addressed more directly by Lovett, Meyer and Thille who provide evidence of the effectiveness of open learning resources that capture learner interactions and can accelerate th...
State and federal experience with the national 55 mph (88 km/h) speed limit in the United States ... more State and federal experience with the national 55 mph (88 km/h) speed limit in the United States has shown it to be a major life‐saving policy. Even though the effectiveness of this policy has diminished in recent years as highway speeds have increased and other safety policies have made driving safer, 2000–4000 lives are saved each year due to slower
A selection of interesting papers that were published in the two months before our press date in ... more A selection of interesting papers that were published in the two months before our press date in major journals most likely to report significant results in neurobiology.
This paper discusses the provision of open educational resources, drawing on the concept of a 'fl... more This paper discusses the provision of open educational resources, drawing on the concept of a 'flat world' (Friedman, 2005). A discourse analytical perspective (Fairclough, 2000) is used to discuss data from example OER initiatives. We enquire how flattening such initiatives are in terms of widening participation and empowering individuals through the access to knowledge.
Godwin, Stephen and McAndrew, Patrick (2008). Exploring user types and what users seek in an open... more Godwin, Stephen and McAndrew, Patrick (2008). Exploring user types and what users seek in an open content based educational resource. In: ED-MEDIA 2008 World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, 30 Jun - 04 Jul 2008, Vienna, Austria.
Behind the Scenes with OpenLearn: The Challenges of Researching the Provision of Open Educational... more Behind the Scenes with OpenLearn: The Challenges of Researching the Provision of Open Educational Resources Stephen Godwin, Patrick McAndrew and Andreia Santos Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK sj godwin@ open. ac. uk p. ...
The OpenLearn initiative at the Open University <http://www.open. ac.uk/openlearn> offers f... more The OpenLearn initiative at the Open University <http://www.open. ac.uk/openlearn> offers free and open access to online material across a wide range of subjects. This material has been placed in on online environ-ment based on the Moodle learning environment together with ...
The Open University is undertaking a major initiative (OpenLearn) to provide free access to learn... more The Open University is undertaking a major initiative (OpenLearn) to provide free access to learning material within an environment that allows learners to work with the material and use tools to help make sense of it, and also allows educators to rework and reuse the material in new ...
Three subspecies are recognized: Mexican Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis lucida), California Spot... more Three subspecies are recognized: Mexican Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis lucida), California Spotted Owl (S. occidentalis occidentalis), and Northern Spotted Owl (S. occidentalis caurina) (Dawson et al. 1986; Wilcove 1987). Starch-gel electrophoresis was unable to detect variation between S. occidentalis occidentalis and S. occidentalis caurina; however, S. occidentalis lucida did show variation, suggesting the possibility of two distinct species (Barrowclough and Gutierrez 1990). In addition, two separate evolutionary histories have been demonstrated by the major allelic frequency difference between occidentalis/caurina and lucida (Barrowclough and Gutierrez 1990). Description The Spotted Owl is considered a medium-sized owl with an average height of about 45 cm, and average wingspan of about 90 cm. The plumage consists largely of dark brown body feathers with a regular pattern of round to elliptical white spots, white horizontal bars on the chest and tail, large dark brown eyes surrounded by tawny facial disk, and no ear tuffs. Male and female Spotted Owls have similar plumage. Females may be distinguished by their comparatively larger body size (females: n = 65, mean = 663 g, SD = 42.8 g; males: n = 68, mean = 579 g, SD = 34.9 g; Blakesley et al. 1990), and higher pitch of their vocalization (Forsman et al. 1984).
The Transportation Research Board (TRB) Research and Technology Coordinating Committee, appointed... more The Transportation Research Board (TRB) Research and Technology Coordinating Committee, appointed by the National Research Council, has published an assessment of the highway research programs funded under the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users. Recommendations and findings address such issues as competitive awards of funding, advanced research, funding cuts, stakeholder-supported programs, dissemination of results, and setting research priorities.
Information Impact: Journal of Information and Knowledge Management
The study investigated the influence of ICT skills on library information resources utilisation b... more The study investigated the influence of ICT skills on library information resources utilisation by undergraduates in two universities in Southwest , Nigeria. Descriptive survey research was adopted for the study. From a population of 32,419 undergraduates in the University of Ibadan and the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, a multi-stage sampling technique was used to select 407 respondents. Questionnaire was the instrument used for data collection. Four hundred and seven copies of questionnaires were administered to respondents, however, 377 were found useful for the analysis. Research questions were answered using descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage and mean distribution, while the research hypothesis was analysed, using Pearson's correlation coefficient and was tested at a 0.05 level of significance. Findings of the study showed that ICT skills possessed by the undergraduates were high. The extent of library information resources utilisation by undergraduates was generally low; however reference materials and monographs/textbooks were highly utilised. The result also revealed that there was significant positive correlation (r = .383 ** ; p< 0.05) between ICT skills and library information resources utilisation. Thus, it was recommended that library management should leveraged on the ICT skill possessed by undergraduates by adopting and implementing ICTs in the provision of library services that would enhance ICT skills and facilitate the utilisation of library information resources by undergraduate.
The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit, self-perpetuating society of distinguis... more The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit, self-perpetuating society of distinguished scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare. On the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has a mandate that requires it to advise the federal government on scientific and technical matters. Dr. Ralph J. Cicerone is president of the National Academy of Sciences. The National Academy of Engineering was established in 1964, under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, as a parallel organization of outstanding engineers. It is autonomous in its administration and in the selection of its members, sharing with the National Academy of Sciences the responsibility for advising the federal government. The National Academy of Engineering also sponsors engineering programs aimed at meeting national needs, encourages education and research, and recognizes the superior achievements of engineers. Dr. Charles M. Vest is president of the National Academy of Engineering. The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public. The Institute acts under the responsibility given to the National Academy of Sciences by its congressional charter to be an adviser to the federal government and, on its own initiative, to identify issues of medical care, research, and education. Dr. Harvey V. Fineberg is president of the Institute of Medicine. The National Research Council was organized by the National Academy of Sciences in 1916 to associate the broad community of science and technology with the Academy's purposes of furthering knowledge and advising the federal government. Functioning in accordance with general policies determined by the Academy, the Council has become the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. The Council is administered jointly by both the Academies and the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Ralph J. Cicerone and Dr. Charles M. Vest are chair and vice chair, respectively, of the National Research Council. The Transportation Research Board is one of six major divisions of the National Research Council. The mission of the Transportation Research Board is to provide leadership in transportation innovation and progress through research and information exchange, conducted within a setting that is objective, interdisciplinary, and multimodal. The Board's varied activities annually engage about 7,000 engineers, scientists, and other transportation researchers and practitioners from the public and private sectors and academia, all of whom contribute their expertise in the public interest. The program is supported by state transportation departments, federal agencies including the component administrations of the U.S. Department of Transportation, and other organizations and individuals interested in the development of transportation. www.TRB.org
Since 1991, dramatic changes have occurred in the genetic composition of populations of Phytophth... more Since 1991, dramatic changes have occurred in the genetic composition of populations of Phytophthora infestans in the United States. Clonal lineages recently introduced into the United States (US-7 and US-8) are more common now than the previously dominant lineage (US-1). To help determine why these changes occurred, four clonal lineages of P. in-festans common during the early 1990s in the United States and Canada were evaluated for sensitivity to the protectant fungicides mancozeb and chlorothalonil using amended agar assays for isolates collected from 1990 to 1994. No isolate or lineage was resistant to either mancozeb or chlorothalonil. There were significant differences among isolates for degree of sensitivity to one fungicide individually, but there were no significant (P = 0.05) differences among the US-1, US-6, US-7, and US-8 clonal lineages for degree of sensitivity to both fungicides. Therefore, resistance to protectant fungicides cannot explain the rapid increase in frequ...
This paper will draw on research being developed within the Teaching and Learning strand of the E... more This paper will draw on research being developed within the Teaching and Learning strand of the ESRC InterActive Education: Learning in the Information Age project which is examining the ways in which new technologies can be used in educational settings to enhance learning. It will focus on the learning and understanding of quadratic functions using a graphical software package and
S eptoria tritici blotch (STB), caused by the ascomycete Mycosphaerella graminicola (synonym: Zym... more S eptoria tritici blotch (STB), caused by the ascomycete Mycosphaerella graminicola (synonym: Zymoseptoria tritici; asexual stage: Septoria tritici), is one of the most common and important diseases of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) worldwide (Eyal et al., 1987). Septoria tritici blotch often is the predominant disease problem of wheat in areas with cool, wet spring weather, such as northern Europe and the United Kingdom, and is usually one of the top three or four diseases in other parts of the world, depending on the year. Even when other diseases such as leaf and stem
... FOR RESISTANCE TO SEPTORIA TRITICI BLOTCH IN WHEAT Stephen B. Goodwin1, Jessica R. Cavaletto1... more ... FOR RESISTANCE TO SEPTORIA TRITICI BLOTCH IN WHEAT Stephen B. Goodwin1, Jessica R. Cavaletto1, Iago Lowe2, Ian Thompson1, Steven X ... Target region amplification polymorphism (TRAP) marker analysis (Hu and Vick, 2003) on parents and bulks with nine fixed ...
Open content could change the experience of developing learning materials. Fulantelli, Gentile, T... more Open content could change the experience of developing learning materials. Fulantelli, Gentile, Taibi and Allegri consider open resources as an evolution in the way educational material can be produced, presenting an overall model relating learning objects to open content and identifying potential benefits for the lifecycle of educational material if an open approach is more widely adopted. Conole and Weller also consider the teachers' perspective in terms of how to design content to work in the open world and the sort of tools that would aid the learning designer. Mor and Winters look at a similar design process by representing designs as learning patterns that can be reinterpreted and describe a way in which they have use participation in workshops to elicit possible patterns. The learner experience is addressed more directly by Lovett, Meyer and Thille who provide evidence of the effectiveness of open learning resources that capture learner interactions and can accelerate th...
State and federal experience with the national 55 mph (88 km/h) speed limit in the United States ... more State and federal experience with the national 55 mph (88 km/h) speed limit in the United States has shown it to be a major life‐saving policy. Even though the effectiveness of this policy has diminished in recent years as highway speeds have increased and other safety policies have made driving safer, 2000–4000 lives are saved each year due to slower
A selection of interesting papers that were published in the two months before our press date in ... more A selection of interesting papers that were published in the two months before our press date in major journals most likely to report significant results in neurobiology.
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