scholarly journals Post-graduate scholars can publish Compended-Guides to the literature of their fields using Knowledge-Step Forums

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don L Jewett
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Scientific Publication ◽  
Senior Faculty ◽  
Digital Medium ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Surgical Residents ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Senior Faculty Member ◽  
The Web

ABSTRACT "Publication forms the core structure supporting the development and transmission of scientific knowledge" (Galbraith2015). Yet, with the WorldWideWeb a dominant part of current scientific publication and information-dissemination, internet "publication" is still paper-based in its style and methods, even when it uses a digital medium. Such a paper-based publishing "model" is NOT adequate for a Web-based world. In 2006, an estimated 3,700 peer-reviewed scientific articles were published per day (Bjork2009)! This totals about 1.35 million articles per year. A similar estimate for 2011 was 1.8 million (Outsell2013), which is almost 5,000 per day. The total number of English-language scholarly documents accessible on the Web was estimated in 2014 to be at least 114 million (Khabsa2014). The methods and features described here are clearly needed now, and will be absolutely necessary in the future, when even more articles are available. In this context of an overload of information from scientific articles, described here is the idea of Knowledge-Step Forums as the basis for creating new peer-reviewed, compended "Literature-Guides", each on a very narrow topic and in a MultiLevel Format (Knowledge-Step Compendia). A multitude of Forum-Compendors, who need not be a senior faculty member (as is the case in traditional literature-reviews), but can be pre-docs, post-docs, and senior medical/surgical residents, will be aided by their mentors and online experts to create these Knowledge-Step Compendia. All participants (students and faculty) will be motivated by their own self-interest and thus each gains from the activity, it being a means to self-organize groups of like-minded scholars that can be the basis for reviews of new data, discovering new ideas, and finding jobs. The Software for Knowledge-Step Forums will also be useful to speed publication on the Web because it will easily support Publication of Preprints with automatic collection of online "peer-review" comments.

scholarly journals Post-graduate scholars can publish Compended-Guides to the literature of their fields using Knowledge-Step Forums

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don L Jewett
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Scientific Publication ◽  
Senior Faculty ◽  
Digital Medium ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Surgical Residents ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Senior Faculty Member ◽  
The Web

ABSTRACT "Publication forms the core structure supporting the development and transmission of scientific knowledge" (Galbraith2015). Yet, with the WorldWideWeb a dominant part of current scientific publication and information-dissemination, internet "publication" is still paper-based in its style and methods, even when it uses a digital medium. Such a paper-based publishing "model" is NOT adequate for a Web-based world. In 2006, an estimated 3,700 peer-reviewed scientific articles were published per day (Bjork2009)! This totals about 1.35 million articles per year. A similar estimate for 2011 was 1.8 million (Outsell2013), which is almost 5,000 per day. The total number of English-language scholarly documents accessible on the Web was estimated in 2014 to be at least 114 million (Khabsa2014). The methods and features described here are clearly needed now, and will be absolutely necessary in the future, when even more articles are available. In this context of an overload of information from scientific articles, described here is the idea of Knowledge-Step Forums as the basis for creating new peer-reviewed, compended "Literature-Guides", each on a very narrow topic and in a MultiLevel Format (Knowledge-Step Compendia). A multitude of Forum-Compendors, who need not be a senior faculty member (as is the case in traditional literature-reviews), but can be pre-docs, post-docs, and senior medical/surgical residents, will be aided by their mentors and online experts to create these Knowledge-Step Compendia. All participants (students and faculty) will be motivated by their own self-interest and thus each gains from the activity, it being a means to self-organize groups of like-minded scholars that can be the basis for reviews of new data, discovering new ideas, and finding jobs. The Software for Knowledge-Step Forums will also be useful to speed publication on the Web because it will easily support Publication of Preprints with automatic collection of online "peer-review" comments.

scholarly journals Post-graduate scholars can publish Compended-Guides to the literature of their fields using Knowledge-Step Forums

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don L Jewett
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Scientific Publication ◽  
Senior Faculty ◽  
Digital Medium ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Surgical Residents ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Senior Faculty Member ◽  
The Web

"Publication forms the core structure supporting the development and transmission of scientific knowledge" (Galbraith2015). Yet, with the WorldWideWeb a dominant part of current scientific publication and information-dissemination, internet "publication" is still paper-based in its style and methods, even when it uses a digital medium. Such a paper-based publishing "model" is NOT adequate for a Web-based world. In 2006, an estimated 3,700 peer-reviewed scientific articles were published per day (Bjork2009)! This totals about 1.35 million articles per year. A similar estimate for 2011 was 1.8 million (Outsell2013), which is almost 5,000 per day. The total number of English-language scholarly documents accessible on the Web was estimated in 2014 to be at least 114 million (Khabsa2014). The methods and features described here are clearly needed now, and will be absolutely necessary in the future, when even more articles are available. In this context of an overload of information from scientific articles, described here is the idea of Knowledge-Step Forums as the basis for creating new peer-reviewed, compended "Literature-Guides", each on a very narrow topic and in a MultiLevel Format (Knowledge-Step Compendia). A multitude of Forum-Compendors, who need not be a senior faculty member (as is the case in traditional literature-reviews), but can be pre-docs, post-docs, and senior medical/surgical residents, will be aided by their mentors and online experts to create these Knowledge-Step Compendia. All participants (students and faculty) will be motivated by their own self-interest and thus each gains from the activity, it being a means to self-organize groups of like-minded scholars that can be the basis for reviews of new data, discovering new ideas, and finding jobs. The Software for Knowledge-Step Forums will also be useful to speed publication on the Web because it will easily support Publication Preprints with online "peer-review" comments.

scholarly journals Post-graduate scholars can publish Compended-Guides to the literature of their field using Knowledge-Step-Forums

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don L Jewett
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Scientific Publication ◽  
Senior Faculty ◽  
Digital Medium ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Surgical Residents ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Senior Faculty Member ◽  
The Web

"Publication forms the core structure supporting the development and transmission of scientific knowledge" (Galbraith2015). Yet, with the WorldWideWeb a dominant part of current scientific publication and information-dissemination, internet "publication" is still paper-based in its style and methods, even when it uses a digital medium. Such a paper-based publishing "model" is not adequate for a Web-based world. In 2006, an estimated 3,700 peer-reviewed scientific articles were published per day (Bjork2009)! This totals about 1.35 million articles per year. A similar estimate for 2011 was 1.8 million (Outsell2013), which is almost 5,000 per day. The total number of English-language scholarly documents accessible on the Web was estimated in 2014 to be at least 114 million (Khabsa2014). The methods and features described here are clearly needed now, and will be absolutely necessary in the future, when even more articles are published and available. In this context of an overload of information from scientific articles, described here is the idea of Knowledge-Step Forums as the basis for creating new peer-reviewed, compended "Literature-Guides", each on a very narrow topic and in a MultiLevel Format (Knowledge-Step Compendia). A multitude of Forum-Compendors, who need not be a senior faculty member (as is the case in traditional literature-reviews), but can be pre-docs, post-docs, and senior medical/surgical residents, will be aided by their mentors and online experts to create these Knowledge-Step Compendia. All participants (students and faculty) will be motivated by their own self-interest and thus each gains from the activity, it being a means to self-organize groups of like-minded scholars that can be the basis for reviews of new data, discovering new ideas, and finding jobs. The Software for Knowledge-Step Forums will also be useful to speed publication on the Web because it will easily support Publication Preprints with online peer-review.

scholarly journals When scholars use Knowledge-Step Forums to create Web-Compended Guides to the literature of their fields, paradigm-shifts will occur in the processes of knowledge creation and in graduate education.

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don L Jewett
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Web Search ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Scientific Publication ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Senior Faculty ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Senior Faculty Member ◽  
The Web

"Publication forms the core structure supporting the development and transmission of scientific knowledge" (Galbraith2015). Yet, with the WorldWideWeb a dominant part of current scientific publication and information-dissemination, internet "publication" is still paper-based in its style and methods. As will become painfully obvious, such a paper-based "publishing model" is NOT adequate for a Web-based world. Consider that in 2011, an estimated 5,000 peer-reviewed scientific articles were published per day (Outsell2013), and that in 2014 just the English-language scholarly publications on the Web were about 4,900 per day. In 1980, the distinguished scientist Garrett Hardin wrote [Hardin1980]:"Who can keep up with such a torrent? When I was young and foolish I vowed that I would read all the articles in my small field of science. Discovering that this was impossible, I tried to read all the abstracts. That, too, proved too much. Now I know that I cannot even read all the titles." To help reduce scholarly information-overload, this article proposes using Knowledge-Step Forums for the purpose of creating a new type scholarly publication, Web-based Compendia. Each Compendium is about a very narrow topic and is presented in a MultiLevel Format. When all these features are combined, the scholarly article is called a Knowledge-Step Compendium, and it is posted on the Web by the scholar, either on an institutional server, or on one of many web-hosting servers. Web-search engines will be automatically notified about the new posting (and later changes, too). Forum-Compendors need not be a senior faculty member (as is the case in traditional literature-reviews), but can be pre-docs, post-docs, and senior medical/surgical residents. These graduate-students will be aided by their mentors and online experts to create these Knowledge-Step Compendia. All participants (students and faculty) will be motivated by their own self-interest and everyone gains from the activity, which self-organizes groups of like-minded scholars. Such groups can be the basis for early reviews of new data, for discovering new ideas, and for finding jobs. Knowledge-Step Forums will speed publication on the Web because it will easily support Publication of Preprints using the software's automatic collection of online "peer-review" comments. In order for the Internet to be an efficient searchable repository of current and developing knowledge, one additional feature will be needed: ForwardLinks must be available in any given publication to those articles that, in the future, cite the given publication, as fully described in a Supplement to this article. Open-source software for this functionality should be on all Web-servers that contain scholarly articles, so as to make the WWW a distributed web full of linkages, of both ForwardLinks and RetroLinks.

scholarly journals When scholars use Knowledge-Step Forums to create Web-Compended Guides to the literature of their fields, paradigm-shifts will occur in the processes of knowledge creation and in graduate education.

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don L Jewett
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Web Search ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Scientific Publication ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Senior Faculty ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Senior Faculty Member ◽  
The Web

"Publication forms the core structure supporting the development and transmission of scientific knowledge" (Galbraith2015). Yet, with the WorldWideWeb a dominant part of current scientific publication and information-dissemination, internet "publication" is still paper-based in its style and methods. As will become painfully obvious, such a paper-based "publishing model" is NOT adequate for a Web-based world. Consider that in 2011, an estimated 5,000 peer-reviewed scientific articles were published per day (Outsell2013), and that in 2014 just the English-language scholarly publications on the Web were about 4,900 per day. In 1980, the distinguished scientist Garrett Hardin wrote [Hardin1980]:"Who can keep up with such a torrent? When I was young and foolish I vowed that I would read all the articles in my small field of science. Discovering that this was impossible, I tried to read all the abstracts. That, too, proved too much. Now I know that I cannot even read all the titles." To help reduce scholarly information-overload, this article proposes using Knowledge-Step Forums for the purpose of creating a new type scholarly publication, Web-based Compendia. Each Compendium is about a very narrow topic and is presented in a MultiLevel Format. When all these features are combined, the scholarly article is called a Knowledge-Step Compendium, and it is posted on the Web by the scholar, either on an institutional server, or on one of many web-hosting servers. Web-search engines will be automatically notified about the new posting (and later changes, too). Forum-Compendors need not be a senior faculty member (as is the case in traditional literature-reviews), but can be pre-docs, post-docs, and senior medical/surgical residents. These graduate-students will be aided by their mentors and online experts to create these Knowledge-Step Compendia. All participants (students and faculty) will be motivated by their own self-interest and everyone gains from the activity, which self-organizes groups of like-minded scholars. Such groups can be the basis for early reviews of new data, for discovering new ideas, and for finding jobs. Knowledge-Step Forums will speed publication on the Web because it will easily support Publication of Preprints using the software's automatic collection of online "peer-review" comments. In order for the Internet to be an efficient searchable repository of current and developing knowledge, one additional feature will be needed: ForwardLinks must be available in any given publication to those articles that, in the future, cite the given publication, as fully described in a Supplement to this article. Open-source software for this functionality should be on all Web-servers that contain scholarly articles, so as to make the WWW a distributed web full of linkages, of both ForwardLinks and RetroLinks.

scholarly journals Post-graduate scholars can publish Compended-Guides to the literature of their field using Knowledge-Step-Forums

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don L Jewett
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Student ◽  
Senior Faculty ◽  
Digital Medium ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Post Graduate ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Post Graduate Student ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Senior Faculty Member ◽  
New Literature

"Publication forms the core structure supporting the development and transmission of scientific knowledge" (Galbraith2015). Yet, with the WorldWideWeb a dominant part of many activities, internet "publication" is still paper-based in its style and methods, even when it uses a digital medium. Such a paper-based publishing "model" is not adequate for a Web-based world! In 2006, an estimated 3,700 peer-reviewed articles were published per day (Bjork2009)! As will become apparent, the methods and features described here are needed now, and will be absolutely necessary in the future, when even more articles are published. A New Knowledge-Tool is proposed that is in addition to those already available. The new Knowledge-Tool is a new Literature-Guide called a "Knowledge-Step Compendium" which will be on a very-narrow topic, will be organized in a new MultiLevel-Format, and will be created in a Compending-Forum on the Internet. This New Knowledge-Tool will, in turn, be the basis for a change in academic careers of the timing of when a scholar "Compends" Knowledge. A "Knowledge-Compendor" need not be a senior faculty member (as is the case in traditional literature-reviews), but can be a Post-Graduate Student new to a field. Because a Knowledge-Step Compendium is based on a very-narrow topic and created with the aid of an Internet Forum, for a Graduate Student Compendor this activity will be a means to self-organize groups of like-minded scholars that can be the basis for reviews of new data, discovering new ideas, and finding jobs. To learn what these new names describe, read on.

scholarly journals Post-graduate scholars can create Literature-Guides on the Web using Compending-Forum Software to build Knowledge-Step Compendia

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don L Jewett
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Student ◽  
Senior Faculty ◽  
Digital Medium ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Post Graduate ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Post Graduate Student ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Senior Faculty Member ◽  
New Literature

"Publication forms the core structure supporting the development and transmission of scientific knowledge" (Galbraith2015). Yet, with the WorldWideWeb a dominant part of many activities, internet "publication" is still paper-based in its style and methods, even when it uses a digital medium. Such a paper-based publishing "model" is not adequate for a Web-based world! In 2006, an estimated 3,700 peer-reviewed articles were published per day (Bjork2009)! As will become apparent, the methods and features described here are needed now, and will be absolutely necessary in the future, when even more articles are published. A New Knowledge-Tool is proposed that is in addition to those already available. The new Knowledge-Tool is a new Literature-Guide called a "Knowledge-Step Compendium". This Compendium will be on a very-narrow topic, will be organized in a new MultiLevel-Format, and will be created in a Compending-Forum on the Internet. This New Knowledge-Tool will, in turn, be the basis for a change in academic careers, of the timing of when a scholar "Compends" Knowledge. A "Knowledge-Compendor" need not be a senior faculty member (as is presently the case in traditional literature-reviews), but can be a Post-Graduate Student new to a field. Because a Knowledge-Step Compendium is based on a very-narrow topic and created with the aid of an Internet Forum, for a Graduate Student Compendor this activity will be a means to self-organize groups of like-minded scholars that can be the basis for reviews of new data, discovering new ideas, and finding jobs.

scholarly journals Post-graduate scholars can publish Literature-Guides on the Web by using Compending-Forum Software to create Knowledge-Step Compendia

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don L Jewett
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Student ◽  
Senior Faculty ◽  
Digital Medium ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Post Graduate ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Post Graduate Student ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Senior Faculty Member ◽  
New Literature

"Publication forms the core structure supporting the development and transmission of scientific knowledge" (Galbraith2015). Yet, with the WorldWideWeb a dominant part of many activities, internet "publication" is still paper-based in its style and methods, even when it uses a digital medium. Such a paper-based publishing "model" is not adequate for a Web-based world! In 2006, an estimated 3,700 peer-reviewed articles were published per day (Bjork2009)! As will become apparent, the methods and features described here are needed now, and will be absolutely necessary in the future, when even more articles are published. A New Knowledge-Tool is proposed that is in addition to those already available. The new Knowledge-Tool is a new Literature-Guide called a "Knowledge-Step Compendium" which will be on a very-narrow topic, will be organized in a new MultiLevel-Format, and will be created in a Compending-Forum on the Internet. This New Knowledge-Tool will, in turn, be the basis for a change in academic careers of the timing of when a scholar "Compends" Knowledge. A "Knowledge-Compendor" need not be a senior faculty member (as is the case in traditional literature-reviews), but can be a Post-Graduate Student new to a field. Because a Knowledge-Step Compendium is based on a very-narrow topic and created with the aid of an Internet Forum, for a Graduate Student Compendor this activity will be a means to self-organize groups of like-minded scholars that can be the basis for reviews of new data, discovering new ideas, and finding jobs.

E-learning and Language and Style in Lancaster

2006 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 234-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mick Short
Keyword(s):  
Student Performance ◽  
English Language ◽  
First Year ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Traditional Lecture ◽  
Student Responses ◽  
Introductory Course ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The Web

This article reports on research conducted in the department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University from 2002 to 2005 on first-year undergraduate student performance in, and reaction to, a web-based introductory course in stylistic analysis. The main focus of this report is a comparison of student responses to the varying ways in which the web-based course was used from year to year. The description of student responses is based on an analysis of end-of-course questionnaires and a comparison of exit grades. In 2002–3, students accessed the first two-thirds of the course in web-based form and the last third through more traditional teaching. In 2003–4 the entire course was accessed in web-based form, and in 2004–5 web-based course workshops were used as part of a combined package which also involved weekly lectures and seminars. Some comparison is also made with student performance in, and responses to, the traditional lecture + seminar form of the course, as typified in the 2001–2 version of the course.

scholarly journals New Ideas on the Design of the Web-Based Learning System Oriented to Problem Solving From the Perspective of Question Chain and Learning Community

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yin Zhang ◽  
Samuel Chu
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Learning Mechanism ◽  
Web Based Learning ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Problem Solving Process ◽  
The Web

<p class="2">In recent years, a number of models concerning problem solving systems have been put forward. However, many of them stress on technology and neglect the research of problem solving itself, especially the learning mechanism related to problem solving. In this paper, we analyze the learning mechanism of problem solving, and propose that when designing Web-based problem solving systems, more attention should be paid to the learning mechanism involved in the problem solving process than to the technology itself. On the basis of that, some new ideas on the design of the problem solving systems are put forward in order to promote the rapid development of the Web-based problem solving systems.</p>

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