Geoffrey Maslen

Claire Tristram

Scott Carlson

Greg Kearsley

Linda Tischler

Fred Andrews (NY Times)

John Hoult

Cecilia Rothenberger

Anni Layne

Burton Bollag

Ilkka Toumi

Brian Bergstein

Scott Carlson

Edward Feigenbaum

Jeffrey R. Young

Mark London Williams and Steve Barth

Goldie Blumenstyk

Tim Berners-Lee and James Hendler

Ira Mellman

Brian Carolan

Goldie Blumenstyk

Raymond Kurzweil

George Cole

Des Dearlove

Nuala Bennett and Beth Sandore

J. Gregory Dees

Randall K. Engle

Stevan Harnad

Michael Hawley

Florence Olsen

Kaspar Edwards

Jennifer Reingold

Jeffrey R. Young

June 8, 2001

distance education, academic, database,

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Dan Carnevale

June 12, 2001

copyright, IP, distance education, online, academic,

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Eric Bonabeau and Christopher Meyer

May 2001

metaphor, insects, swarm intelligence, complex adaptive systems, simple rules

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Julianne Basinger

June 11, 2001

science policy, academic, private, industry, conflict of interest,

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Yes! Staff

education,

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Chris Taylor

December 4, 2000

digital divide, education, Internet,

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Florence Olsen

January 17, 2001

distance education, online, academic,

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virtual presence, tele-immersion, telepresence,

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Karl Taro Greenfeld and David S. Jackson

July 24, 2000

philanthropy, venture, education,

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"The venture capitalists are actually philanthropists with the New Schools Venture Fund, a group that believes it has come up with a better way to give away millions of dollars. The premise is that it is not just money that makes a nonprofit foundation succeed or fail; it is also talent, expertise and creative ideas--the same attributes that make a profitable business."

Jessica Ludwig

January 11, 2001

distance education, online, academic,

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"Anyone with Internet access can use the Web site. An average of 1,000 people in 75 countries look at the site daily. Corporations and faculty members at other universities have used the online material to teach their own courses on e-commerce."

Jesse Wong

May 29, 2001

MBA, business school, academic,

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June 4, 2001

virtual presence, telepresence, collaboration,

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Goldie Blumenstyk

June 1, 2001

distance education, Pensare, MBA,

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Tara Brabazon

June 2001

distance education, Internet, academia, university,

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An interesting article that examines a number of conflicts in the current towards online, virtual education.

"The dual modalities of crisis and economic rationalism are framing the current movement into Internet-based teaching. The motif of 'crisis' provides an unfortunate and inappropriate push into technological innovation. Through these changes, the academy has been resilient and flexible. The shift in motifs, from the ivory tower to the real world, has downplayed and demeaned the critical function of scholars."

Sarah Carr

June 6, 2001

distance education, Internet, online

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A short blurb on using online short courses as a loss leader to get people into the delux model.

"The University of Washington plans to offer free, short versions of some of its online courses, partly as a marketing strategy. "

Tanya Schevitz

January 28, 2001

MBA, dot-com, business school,

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This article profiles a number of MBA students who had put off their formal education for experience with dot-com companies. With the dot-com crash, many of these students are now back in school.

Tia O’Brien

May 27, 2001

economy, dot-com, business school, new economy

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"The abrupt, nasty ending to dot-com euphoria tossed dreams of billion-dollar companies and instant riches into history's dumpster, leaving young entrepreneurs like Reisman facing their first failures, scarred with bitterness."

Jan Newmarch

June 2001

open source, IP, academia, distance education,

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A really interesting article.

"In this competitive age, universities are seeking ways to protect their intellectual property, for fear that it might be stolen or used by others without financial benefit coming back to the university. Increasingly, universities are using mechanisms of secrecy to secure their property. This paper argues that this approach is wrong on both moral and business grounds, and that a better model can be found in the Open Source movement of the software industry."

Tom Abate

March 19, 2001

science policy, academia, education, biotech

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Short article looking at "the first class of its kind in the nation, an 11-week course designed to teach fledgling scientists the nuts and bolts of the business of biotechnology."

Scott Carlson

June 6, 2001

publishing, academia, Ebrary,

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Ebrary's business model is based on something like a virtual copy machine: Users will be able to read the books free online, but will have to pay 15 cents to 25 cents for each page that they download or print. Christopher M. Warnock, Ebrary's chief executive officer, says that the presses will determine the fee for each page and that the majority of that fee will go to the presses and the authors. Ebrary will also try to generate income by offering the presses advertising space on the site.

Chris Werry

May 2001

distance education, academia, online, Web, Internet,

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"There has recently been a mad rush by universities, venture capitalists and corporations to develop online courses, virtual universities, education portals, and courseware. The drive to develop a winning formula for commercial online education has fostered some unusual partnerships. This paper provides a broad overview of some models of online education that have been developed by commercial and academic institutions. It examines some of the rhetorical strategies that have been used to talk about online education by commercial groups, and discusses some of the hopes and fears that have been associated with online instruction by academics, administrators, and businesspeople. The paper outlines some of the main players and positions involved in debates about online education, and suggests some strategies that academic groups ought to explore. In particular, the author argues that academics need something an open source movement for academic resources, akin to the Free Software Foundation. This 'Free Courseware Foundation' would give teachers greater control of their resources, and better enable them to share materials with other teachers and with the public."

April 4, 2001

distance education, online, digital divide,

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The press release from MIT announcing their effort to put almost everything online.

Kristi Essick

May 25, 2001

academic, entrepreneur, business school, MBA,

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"A group of European engineering and business schools is aiming to prove that high-tech entrepreneurship can be taught."

Jeff Scharlet

September 15, 2000

science policy, paradigm, academia,

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"Mr. Fuller, a philosopher at the University of Warwick, in Coventry, England, wants to change the way most people today absorb new ideas and dispose of old ones. You could say he's looking for a paradigm shift -- but the very concept of paradigms is exactly what Mr. Fuller believes is holding us back from a smarter and better world."

Robin Wilson

June 1, 2001

science policy,

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An ambitious program at Ohio State to recruit top faculty members and move the University up in the national rankings by "taxing" all of the universities colleges and then giving the money back to a select few through a high profile competition.

Sara Hebel

May 15, 2001

academic freedom, corporate, education, university,

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"The president of the State University of New York at New Paltz railed against the leaders of the university system last Friday, harshly criticizing them -- and academic administrators and trustees in general -- for increasingly sacrificing academic freedom to pursue political agendas and achieve corporate goals."

Adrian Johns

January 18, 2001

science policy, Web, Internet, language, print, books,

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An interesting essay pointing out the fact that "the social structures of science were invented to cope with an explosion of printed information."

This then begs the question, what will we invent to help us deal with the current explosion in digital information?

Doug Payne

March 9, 2001

publishing, journals,

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"More than a thousand scholars have lined up behind an economist from St. Andrews University, in Scotland, who plans on using the Internet and a new online-publishing model to challenge the dominance of some of the world's largest academic publishers."

Simon Buckingham Shum and Tamara Sumner

February 2001

publishing, journals, peer review,

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"How can new media positively transform scholarly practices? In this article, we describe the Journal of Interactive Media in Education (JIME). JIME's peer review process is designed to promote multidisciplinary dialogue through the use of a purpose-designed Web document-discussion interface. This innovative peer review model and the resulting enriched digital documents illustrate some of the possibilities for promoting knowledge construction and preserving intellectual products in digital scholarly publications. We present JIME's technical infrastructure, editorial policy, and peer review process, and discuss how these features are used to support the journal's goals. Finally, we conclude by considering what aspects of our approach might be suitable for e-journals in other disciplines."

Stuart Peters

September 2000

publishing, electronic journal,

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"This article describes the subscription model that Sociological Research Online has adopted, and reports how it is implemented using current technology. The main aim of the model was to provide a service that required little administration or maintenance. The model adopted fits the brief well."

Eliot Marshall

July 14, 2000

publishing, Internet,

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publishing, journal, library,

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A large online publishing effort. For background info on the need for such an effort, see http://www.jstor.org/about/need.html.

publishing, journals, Web,

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"The topic of this Nature forum Ñ the impact of the Web on the publishing of the results of original research Ñ has, since the emergence of the Internet, filled volumes in the reports of conference proceedings and reams of individual articles. The main aim of this forum is to bring some of the substance of this Brownian motion of Internet issues to a broader grassroots audience and debate the implications for the future dissemination of scientific information. We have invited leading representatives of the main groups of stakeholders and observers from the mainstream Internet industries to express their views in 1,000-word articles. We hope to help identify some of the best opportunities offered by the Internet, and explore what the best public and private strategies might be, in economic and other terms, to ensure that science reaps the most benefits."