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Upcoming NERCOMP workshop "Exploring New Options in Digital Publishing"

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Registration is now open for NERCOMP's workshop "Exploring New Options in Digital Publishing"  on March 23, 2010. For a full schedule and registration information, please go to: http://www.nercomp.org/events/event_single.aspx?id=5936

NERCOMP's workshop: "Publishing Open Course Curricula: What It's All About and Why It Matters"

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Registration is now open for NERCOMP's upcoming workshop: "Publishing Open Course Curricula: What It's All About and Why It Matters"

For a full schedule and registration information, please go to: http://www.nercomp.org/events/event_single.aspx?id=5846

NERCOMP's new workshop: "WordCamp Ed: NorthEast"

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Registration is now open for NERCOMP's upcoming workshop: "WordCamp Ed: NorthEast"

DATE: February 2, 2009

TIME: 9:00 - 3:00 (Coffee and Registration start at 8:00)

PRICE: NERCOMP Members: $95, Non-Members: $220

LOCATION: The College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA.

Not Rocket Science: An erstwhile technologist reflects on the discourse of "technology," 1997-2007

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If there is a problem with technology, it is not ultimately one of computing resources, hardware or software. The problem is the discourse, and the way it inflects and even distorts the way we think about pedagogy.

Updates on the state of Cyberinfrastructure (by way of the Coalition for Networked Information)

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The following set of links/announcements from CNI's Clifford Lynch help to frame many of our recent posts about the future of publishing, scholarly communications, and our course management platforms in the context of cyberinfrastructure.

Even though these documents have been out for a few days already, I wanted to be sure that CNI-announce readers were aware of them, as they are very important.

Scholarly Communications in the 21st. Century: Two Important Announcements

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The on-going crisis in Scholarly Communications is no longer breaking news. We all are aware of the sky-rocketing costs of journals, the imploding market for scholarly monographs, the struggles to develop sustainable business models for open access publications, and the paralysis induced by the lack of an agreed-upon process for peer review of born digital scholarship. In the face of this dismal situation, the folks at the The Institute for the Future of the Book and Rice University have been busily planning two new initiatives, both of which address head-on many of our shared problems.
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