Piazza is a free online gathering place where students can ask, answer, and explore 24/7, under the guidance of their instructors. Students as well as instructors can answer questions, fueling a healthy, collaborative discussion.
The Future of Learning. Delivered Today Continue A bold promise made a reality through: The Canopy: A social learning platform powered by AIA Nordic research-based social elearning platform designed to enable the development of competencies. The adaptive quizzes and the built-in social network str ...
This article provides an introduction to the use of altmetrics as a tool to assess research impact. In particular, it looks at the evidence behind claims that altmetrics allow the impact of research to be measured in days rather than years. Low correlations between altmetrics and article citations make it doubtful that altmetrics can reliably predict future citations. In addition, there are good reasons to qualify statements that altmetrics measure the wider impact of research on society. Librarians should be careful not to overstate the value of altmetrics when recommending their use as a complement to more traditional measures of research quality.
This paper presents a review of altmetrics or alternative metrics. This concept is defined as the creation and study of new indicators for analysing scientific and academic research activity based onWeb 2.0. The underlying premise is that variables such as mentions in blogs, numberof tweets or saves ofan articleby researchersin reference management systems, may be a valid measure of the use and impactof scientific publications. In this respect,these measuresare becoming particularly relevant, being at the centre of debate within the bibliometric community. Firstly,an explanation is given of the main platforms and indicators for this type of measurement. Subsequently,a study is undertaken of a selection of papers from the field of communication, comparing the number of citations received withtheir 2.0 indicators.The results show that the most cited articles within recent years also have significantly higher altmetric indicators. Next follows a review of the principal empirical studies undertaken, centering on the correlations between bibliometric and alternative indicators. To conclude, the main limitations of altmetrics are highlighted,alongside a reflective consideration of the role altmetrics may play in capturing the impactof research in Web 2.0 platforms.
Altmetric measurements derived from the social web are increasingly advocated and used as early indicators of article impact and usefulness. Nevertheless, there is a lack of systematic scientific evidence that altmetrics are valid proxies of either impact or utility although a few case studies have reported medium correlations between specific altmetrics and citation rates for individual journals or fields. Finally, the coverage of all the altmetrics except for Twitter seems to be low and so it is not clear if they are prevalent enough to be useful in practice.
Alternative metrics demonstrate the value and influence of scholars’ work apart fromtraditional citation counts and can enhance the impact of a CV. Altmetrics provideadditional, supplementary information and can balance misleading metrics tied toparticular journals. More timely than traditional metrics, altmetrics quickly reveal theimpact of recent work and add authority to different types of scholarly products notcaptured as articles. Altmetrics can capture social media references that escape traditionalmetrics and reflect public engagement prompted by scholarly writing. The availability ofaltmetrics expands publishing opportunities to include new venues and stimulatesinnovative strategies for evaluating research. When included in a CV altmetrics must beaccurate, clear and meaningful
Social enterprise and social impact bonds are evolving concepts to describe new ways applying market models and solutions to social problems along with new ways of financing these projects. Contracting for outcomes, while well-understood in business-based contracts is still fairly new in the application to social programs. These are distinct but related approaches that are being touted as a way for government contract for public services and reduce expenditures on social programs.
Spring Social is an extension of the Spring Framework to enable the development of social-ready applications. With Spring Social you can create applications that interact with various social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and TripIt, giving the users of your application a more personal experience.
The main features of Spring Social include:
* A set of social network templates for interacting with Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, TripIt, and Greenhouse.
* An OAuth-aware request factory for signing RestTemplate requests with OAuth authorization details.
* A web argument resolver for extracting Facebook user ID and access token information in a Spring MVC controller.
Scholar Social is a microblogging platform for researchers, grad students, librarians, archivists, undergrads, academically inclined high schoolers, educators of all levels, journal editors, research assistants, professors, administrators—anyone involved in academia who is willing to engage with others respectfully.
Anxiety about the effects of social media on young people has risen to such an extreme that giving children smartphones is sometimes equated to handing them a gram of cocaine. The reality is much less alarming.
A close look at social media use shows that most young texters and Instagrammers are fine. Heavy use can lead to problems, but many early studies and news headlines have overstated dangers and omitted context.
Researchers are now examining these diverging viewpoints, looking for nuance and developing better methods for measuring whether social media and related technologies have any meaningful impact on mental health.
The study explores the applications of informal Internet tools on improving the learning outcomes,
academic achievements and career advancement of the Saudi Arabian university students. A systematic
review of studies conducted on various institutions of higher learning across Saudi Arabia enabled the
researcher to evaluate the trends in the use of informal digital learning tools. The paper pools evidences
from multiple studies of similar design to examine the strengths, weaknesses and gaps in the applications of
digital technology in improving the learning outcomes, skills and knowledge acquisition among the
university students.The internet tools present the best platform for reflective practice, exhaustive knowledge
sharing, skills upgrade and accessing unlimited support services. The students capitalize on the autonomy
resulting from the informal environment to source multiple data from as many stakeholders as possible
thereby gaining holistic perspective of their areas of interest, career and other value adding co curricular
activities.The informal internet technologies have not only grown to become essential tools for reinforcing
the formal learning activities but also critical requirements for developing social competence,
interpersonal skills, and creativity.
The Debunking Handbook, a guide to debunking misinformation, is now freely available to download. Although there is a great deal of psychological research on misinformation, there's no summary of the literature that offers practical guidelines on the most effective ways of reducing the influence of myths. The Debunking Handbook boils the research down into a short, simple summary, intended as a guide for communicators in all areas (not just climate) who encounter misinformation.
Although the conceptual core of information literacy (IL), with its emphasis on acquiring abilities that enable one to ethically seek, use and create information, has remained quite stable since the term was first introduced, recent...
Citilab is a citizen laboratory for social and digital innovation in Cornellà de Llobregat, Barcelona. Explore and disseminate the digital impact on creative thinking, design and innovation that arise from digital culture . Citilab is a mix between a training center, a research center and an incubator of business and social initiatives.
Since this initiative was born, in 1997, and later it opened its headquarters on November 23, 2007, Citilab has promoted its activity as a digital center of citizen innovation for the dissemination and promotion of the Knowledge Society . His basic methods of work are those of the living labs: design thinking, computational thinking and user-centered co-creation . In Citilab, Internet is considered a means to innovate in a more collaborative and integrating way with the citizen in the center of the process.
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Mastodon is an open source decentralized social network - by the people for the people. Join the federation and take back control of your social media!
This paper shows how Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) serve to expand privatization in areas of social reproduction and care work. SIBs extend neoliberalism and austerity in the social care sector through the financialization of care work. They open these domains as a new frontier for investment markets, creating inequity for already marginalized groups. The paper concludes with an overview of the SIB landscape in Canada and explores its possibilities for growth.
MegaShouts.org is a social media amplifier that allows users to make their voices heard through online and offline channels capable of generating media buzz