- Student As Scholar
Un blog lancé le 25 juillet par Gerry McKiernan (Iowa State University Library).
"Undergraduate education should adopt the “Student as Scholar” Model throughout the curriculum, where scholar is conceived in terms of an attitude, an intellectual posture, and a frame of mind derived from the best traditions of an engaged liberal arts education."

- [podcast] Educational Publishing: Moving from the 18th to the 21st Century in One Step (Bob Young, CEO Lulu Enterprises)
(source: Educause ELI 2008 Annual Meeting)
Today's competitive education industry requires that we deliver more relevant information to our students faster than ever before. Taking six months to prepare a document and another six months to print and distribute it simply no longer meets the needs of 21st-century students or the society we are preparing them for.

- An Algorithm to Determine Peer-Reviewers (Marko A. Rodriguez, Johan Bollen)
(source: arXiv, 15/07/08)
The peer-review process is the most widely accepted certification mechanism for officially accepting the written results of researchers within the scientific community. An essential component of peer-review is the identification of competent referees to review a submitted manuscript. This article presents an algorithm to automatically determine the most appropriate reviewers for a manuscript by way of a co-authorship network data structure and a relative-rank particle-swarm algorithm. This approach is novel in that it is not limited to a pre-selected set of referees, is computationally efficient, requires no human-intervention, and, in some instances, can automatically identify conflict of interest situations. A useful application of this algorithm would be to open commentary peer-review systems because it provides a weighting for each referee with respects to their expertise in the domain of a manuscript. The algorithm is validated using referee bid data from the 2005 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries.

- ThreePress : des outils libres pour l’édition
(source: Lafeuille, 21/07/08)

- The future of Higher Education
(source: JISC, 25/07/08)
Une plateforme pour débattre de l'avenir de l'enseignement supérieur en Grande-Bretagne.

- On Accountability, Consider Bologna
(source: Inside Higher Ed, 28/07/08)
Une note de l'Institute for Higher Education Policy (E.-U.) suggère une série de recommandations inspirées du processus de Bologne pour l'enseignement supérieur américain.

- National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) for Teachers
(source: ILW, 28/07/08)
Recommandations en matière de bonnes pratiques pour les enseignants aux E.-U.
[voir également ici qques publications en libre accès sur le sujet]

- Groupe de travail sur la stratégie des données de recherche au Canada
(source: Prosper, 29/07/08)
[voir aussi le document de travail du groupe]