Category Archives: scholarly communication

“Academic blogging” qua peer review

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Jon Becker | Permalink 0


Unless you live under a rock (or if you don’t track education policy matters through social media – same thing), you know about the “big” study about teacher effects that was conducted by Chetty, Friedman and Rockoff, disseminated through NBER and reported in multiple outlets, most notably the New York Times. This is an important [...] Read more »

Blogging, Ed. Research, peer-review, research, scholarly communication, scholarship

My “guerilla” tactic for Open Access Week

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Jon Becker | Permalink 0


I’ve copied the text of an email that I sent today to all the members of the VCU School of Education community. To some of you, the idea of scheduling a room and inviting people to have a conversation may seem benign, hardly “guerilla;” especially in “the academy.” But, I anticipate a good deal of [...] Read more »

higher ed., OER, open access, openaccess, publishing, scholarly communication, scholarship