📖New #OpenTextbook! "The Art & Science of Teaching Agriculture: Four Keys to Dynamic Learning" is a collection of thoughts, best practices, strategies, & techniques for planning, delivering, & assessing teaching & learning.🔑#OER #TeachAg #Agriculture ➡️doi.org/10.21061/teach…

Announcing a "Connecting the Opens" panel discussion feat. library faculty specializing in Open Pub., Open Data, & Open Ed. Dr. Don Orth, author of open textbook Fish, Fishing & Conservation will join us. Details: 3/18, 6-8 p.m. in 207A or Zoom. Register➡️calendar.lib.vt.edu/event/12010196

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JUST IN: Librarians and copyright scholars Kyle K. Courtney (Kyle K. Courtney) and Dave Hansen (Dave Hansen) give their first impressions of the publishers' reply brief, released today, in the lawsuit against our library: kylecourtney.com/publishers-rep…

tell me a story about the BEST boss you’ve ever had. just tryin to see something

This might be the best thing I've ever read about the economics of publishing. Brilliant, clear, important for everyone connected to the book industry to internalize: elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-…

🔎Vacancy: PhD position🎓Understanding the Global Movement for Open Research Information Interested in studying the contemporary #OpenResearchInformation landscape & the challenges of current closed #ResearchInformation forms? 🕖Deadline June 4, 2024👉universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/2024…

NEW POST: 'Documenting Database as Book and Lively Community Archive' This post explores how we'll document the database-as-book experimental project, integrating the PECE platform into African Minds publishing workflow: copim.pubpub.org/pub/documentin… #OAbooks #OpenAccess

Maybe fewer people will misspell my last name now? #Walz

Hey, Hokies! You have options on obtaining required course materials and the library might already have your #TextBook! Students, check out what's avail. to you through the library! 📙Online eTextbooks: guides.lib.vt.edu/online-textboo… 📙Print Course Reserves: bit.ly/VTcourse_reser…

Report: “Wiley Set To Earn $44M From #AI Rights Deals, Confirms ‘No Opt-Out’ For #Authors” infodocket.com/2024/08/30/rep… #publishers #scholcomm

More reasons to seek #rightsreversion Authors Alliance

My Digital Visualizations in Engineering Mechanics project is hiring a Project Manager. This in-person/hybrid role oversees project coordination, partner support, and technical contributions. Salary: $70k-$78k. Please share with others and learn more at jobs.colostate.edu/postings/150778

Save the Date! #OpenEd25 will be held as a hybrid event in Denver, USA and online around the globe. Sign up for updates: form.openeducationconference.org/sign-up

A side effect of so much of academia leaving this site is that the interesting RCTs & other studies that used to be the center of so much of the best debate aren’t being posted, made worse by the fact you can’t post links This has had a lot of impact on the quality of discussion

The epitome of an honest, gracious response to a disappointing change. Thank you for modeling this well.

I think this is exactly right thinking. Look, this is when God chose for you to be born; this postmodern, post-truth, crazy AI time in human history is where you’ve been placed. And it’s good for your soul to make the most of it. Keep what you can. Work around the parts you