Almetric app: social reputation for scientists

Submitted by osimod on Fri, 2012-06-08 15:21

An inspiring app which merges traditional scientific repositories with socially-driven reputation tools.

What is Curation?

Submitted by osimod on Thu, 2012-06-07 09:22

Curation is one of the buzzword of these years, and noone better than Brain Pickings can explain it.

Tracking the trackers

Submitted by osimod on Tue, 2012-06-05 00:24

Great illustration of the implication of privacy and data sharing between websites: "not even two bites into breakfast, and there are already nearly 25 sites that are tracking me. I have navigated to a total of four.” (Gary Kovacs)

Stanford Uni opens up education

Submitted by osimod on Tue, 2012-05-29 08:55

Prof. Thrun explains why they launched the free online course. In 2 weeks it attracted 56000 students. Why isn't this happening in Europe?

The mass creation of skills

Submitted by osimod on Tue, 2012-05-29 08:17

The lack of skills has been previously mentioned as one key barriers to jobs creation and growth (http://daa.ec.europa.eu/content/more-manufactoring-general).
However, we are seeing today interesting initiatives that are educating thousands of people with state of the art skills at marginal costs.
For instance, Stanford University's course on artificial intelligence saw 25,000 users complete all required assignments and receive a formal certificate.