The ISU WU is a short-term program for international students, which is run in summer at Vienna University of Economics and Business. The main objective is to deepen specific knowledge in core business topics and to provide an education with an international and intercultural perspective. An extensive program of cultural and social activities is also provided […]
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International Summer University WU 2011 (ISU WU)
January 26th, 2011 · Comments Off on International Summer University WU 2011 (ISU WU) · Uncategorized
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International Summer School @ Ningbo, China
January 26th, 2011 · Comments Off on International Summer School @ Ningbo, China · 2011, Short courses, Uncategorized
The University of Nottingham will hold international summer school both in Ningbo China campus and Malaysia campus. We will be happy to receive your students if there are interests. These two-week courses, based at our campuses in China and Malaysia, will provide students with the opportunity to study a new subject while meeting people from […]
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NHMRC signs joint statement of purpose regarding research data
January 26th, 2011 · Comments Off on NHMRC signs joint statement of purpose regarding research data · Uncategorized
On 10 January 2011, the Wellcome Trust announced a joint statement of purpose regarding the sharing of research data to accelerate advances in public health. The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is one signatory in the group of major international public health research funding agencies: Sharing research data to improve public health: joint […]
moving to creative commons licences!
January 25th, 2011 · Comments Off on moving to creative commons licences! · Uncategorized
As part of the process of opening up the DAAO to the structures and benefits that the internet has to offer, we are moving to Creative Commons Licensing system. This is a small step that has big benefits. Its a small step because our existing Contributor and End-User Licence Agreements are already Creative Commons licences […]
We’re back!
January 17th, 2011 · Comments Off on We’re back! · Uncategorized
Happy New Year! We’re back! well Olivia and I are. We’ve had great holidays ( I went bush and did some birdwatching, Olivia hung in Sydney and did very little) and we now are now refreshed and ready for our big year ahead. First stop (as always) is the whiteboard, where I have been plotting […]
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Venkat’s First Posting
January 10th, 2011 · Comments Off on Venkat’s First Posting · Uncategorized
Testing the blog for Portal purposes.
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opening access to academic research output
December 17th, 2010 · Comments Off on opening access to academic research output · Uncategorized
Moving on from my qualms about delicious’ shaky future, here’s a great article about alt-metrics and how academic scholarship and publishing is changing. In growing numbers, scholars are moving their everyday work to the web. Online reference managers Zotero and Mendeley each claim to store over 40 million articles (making them substantially larger than PubMed); […]
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Vale delicious?
December 17th, 2010 · Comments Off on Vale delicious? · Uncategorized
TechCrunch has reported a leaked slide from a Yahoo internal meeting which intimates the once popular social bookmarking site delicious.com (owned by Yahoo) may be shut down. It’s early days yet, only being a couple of hours since the report appeared on TechCrunch, but the online world is already responding. At the moment, #delicious is […]
Winter study abroad programs at Dankook University
December 7th, 2010 · Comments Off on Winter study abroad programs at Dankook University · Uncategorized
Dankook University is a privately-owned Korean university providing quality education for more than 50 years. It was recently ranked 50th among 200 Korean universities. It is the first university in Korea to implement a dual campus in Jukjeon and Cheonan offering high-tech research facilities, state-of-the-art classrooms, hospital and dental centres, onsite dormitory accommodation, a museum […]
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design, open data, social media and relevance
December 6th, 2010 · Comments Off on design, open data, social media and relevance · Uncategorized
Recently, inventor and writer Mark Pesce blogged about web 2.0 and underlying motivations for why people engage collaboratively on crowdsourced web projects. What I like about this post is how he has grounded design theory in a number of social behaviours that drive web 2.0 and social media: sharing, connecting, contributing, regulating, and iterating. It […]