The geography of plagiarism
13 Saturday Dec 2014
Posted Spotted in the news
in13 Saturday Dec 2014
Posted Spotted in the news
in12 Friday Dec 2014
Posted My general observations
inIt’s not often that one gets to see exactly who is using JURN in Africa. One such is young geography graduate Saliou Abdou in Cotonou, Benin, West Africa. Among other achievements, he’s helped put his city on OpenStreetMap, taken part in the International Space Apps Challenge 2014 (a two-day NASA hackathon of its Big Data), and attended Barcamp Benin 2014. He’s recently discovered MOOCs and JURN.
12 Friday Dec 2014
A key element of online search literacy appears to be going backward, rather than forward. Results from 1,200 U.S. librarians surveyed in May 2014 appear to show a …
… 29.3 percent increase, over the past two years, in the perception that students have a rudimentary understanding of web evaluation. “[…] librarians feel students are now using the open web for research less than they did in 2012,” the report says, “[and] when students are on the open web, their evaluation skills are more lackluster.” […] 36.1 percent of the students surveyed felt that they had an advanced understanding of website evaluation, whereas only two percent of librarians considered their students to have a high degree of skill in the same area.”
The respondents were librarians from across the core educational spectrum, from elementary through to four-year academic institutions. 31 percent were based in high schools.