Hi all,
In response to Nicola Clare's posting on this issue, you may be interested
to hear about a project at the Knowledge Media Institute to develop a new
digital journal - JIME (Journal of Interactive Multimedia in Education).
This will also have a structured argumentation environment to support the
review process (and a correspondingly different review model).
Our view is that many efforts to use digital media for knowledge
dissemination are still tied to the old paper-based models, simply using
new technologies to speed up paper generation. They aren't exploiting the
new media to reflect on and radically change the _process_ of scholarly
debate.
I append a description, and a Web pointer to a short paper.
Nicola also said:
>I have read about class discussions on the web that are only available to
>course members and
>that at least one was succesful in getting a big name scholar to participate
>in that class.
>However these were "Closed" environments which journals won't mimic unless
>they use
>subscription models and limit discussion and access to subscribers.
You may want to check out 'KMi Stadium', which is experimenting with
Web-based environments for bringing together small and large groups to
listen to and discuss ideas with tutors, or as we have most recently been
doing, a series of leading researchers: http://kmi.open.ac.uk/stadium/
- Simon
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The Journal of Interactive Multimedia in Education (JIME)
Digital journals represent a radical departure from the paper-based media
around which the scholarly communities have grown and adapted since the
Gutenberg revolution. Web publishing and hypertext are now converging to
pose enormous challenges to both publishers and researchers.
JIME which will make use of digital media in several respects, from
submission, through review, to publication. Two defining features of the
journal are:
- To make interactive demonstrations and/or screen-recordings of new
systems in use available to referees and readers, in order to better
convey the interactivity. The static text and graphics found in paper
journals are limited in this respect. The net will serve as the
primary destribution medium.
- To open up the review process to a wider community of scholars
than the normal 2-3 (e.g. to all subscribers). We are exploring
the possibility of a Web-based argumentation environment to support
this process. A short paper outlining the rationale behind this
approach is available [1].
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JIME Editorial Team:
Editor
- Dr Simon Buckingham Shum, The Open University
Deputy Editors
- Prof Diana Laurillard, The Open University
- Dr David Good, University of Cambridge
Consulting Editors
- Dr Shirley Alexander, University of Technology, Sydney
- Prof Wendy Hall, Southampton University
- Prof Terry Mayes, Caledonian University
- Dr Tamara Sumner, The Open University
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[1] On the Future of Journals: Digital Publishing and Argumentation.
S. Buckingham Shum, T. Sumner & D. Laurillard.
Technical Report KMI-TR-24, Knowledge Media Institute,
The Open University, U.K.
http://kmi.open.ac.uk/kmi-abstracts/kmi-tr-24-abstract.html
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Dr Simon Buckingham Shum, Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, U.K.
Tel: +44 1908 655723 Fax: +44 1908 653169
WWW: http://kmi.open.ac.uk/~simonb/
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