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The iPad is not even three weeks old, and the predictions for how it will revolutionize education keep coming. The info-tech research company Gartner says that by 2015, more than 50 percent of children 15 and under will be using touchscreen PCs . (Obviously the best known product in that category is the iPad.)

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For Scholars, Web Changes Sacred Rite of Peer Review - NYTimes.com

Andrew Councill for The New York Times Dan Cohen, director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, is among the academics who advocate a more open, Web-based approach to reviewing scholarly works. Now some humanities scholars have begun to challenge the monopoly that peer review has on admission to career-making journals and, as a consequence, to the charmed circle of tenured academe.

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All In The Mind - 29 May 2010 - It's a Mindfield! All in the Mind at the 2010 Sydney Writers' Festival

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I recently sent some advice to a colleague who is coming up for tenure at another university. He’s quite well known in the Open Science community and is trying to figure out how best to make the case to his tenure committee that the open science contributions he has made in addition to his traditional journal publications are important. We’re talking some major contributions here — lab protocols on OpenWetWare , open lecture materials on slideshare , data files released with CC0 , videos of lab protocols on Benchfly , and he’s a regular contributor to science discussions on FriendFeed . The advice I gave him was basically to make the committee’s job of measuring these contributions easier. Here’s the advice (in a slightly edited form): The audience for most tenure documents (and particularly the external letters) is a committee of non-specialists that advises the provost or other high-ranking administrator.