Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:23:42 GMT
46,000 take eArmyU courses online РCourtney Hickson, Army News Service. More than 46,000 Soldiers have been able to continue their education by taking online classes through eArmyU, including many of the Soldiers deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since its creation in July of 2000, eArmyU has been part of the Army䴜s e-lear [Online Learning Update]
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interesting, very interesting….. but these are professional development type courses….
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Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:04:30 GMT
Microsoft putting their store on “start” menu. Some may consider this an abuse of their dominant position in operating systems, but Joris Evers tells the IDG News Service that Microsoft “is working on a new shopping Web site for software, hardware, and peripherals that it plans to… [July 15, 2004 No Comments
Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:00:07 GMT
June issue of Against the Grain. The June issue of Against the Grain is now out. This issue is guest-edited by Steve McKinzie and devoted to changes in scholarly communication. Not even the TOC and abstracts are online, at least not yet. Here are the OA-related articles. (Thanks to Charles W. Bailey, Jr.)
- Steve McKinzie, Peer Review: Past Present and Future
- John Ober, Catherine Candee, and Beverlee French, Reshaping Scholarly Communication
- Barbara Fister, Academic Authors and the Crisis in Publishing
- Gerry McKiernan, Easy Pieces
- Michael Mabe, Peer Review and Pay-to-Publish: The World Turned Upside Down?
- Peter Suber, A Primer on Open Access to Science and Scholarship (OA edition)
- Mark Herring, Peer Review
- Steve McKinzie, Open Access: Two Caveats
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interesting set of papers, but i'm not sure they define as much as they portend to define.
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