Re: The value of email discussion lists

Some blog followers may be interested in a recent discussion-list post of the above title [Hake (2009a)]. The abstract reads:

ABSTRACT: I list some of the advantages of email discussion lists as given in posts titled "The value of email discussion lists" by Gerald Grow (2009) of the JOURNET list and Dave Dillard (2009a,b) of the NET-GOLD list. In addition, I enumerate some strengths of Academic Discussion Lists as given in "Over Two-Hundred Education & Science Blogs" by Hake (2009b) of the PhysLrnR list.

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REFERENCES [Tiny URL's courtesy http://tinyurl.com/create.php .]

Hake, R.R. 2009a. “Re: The value of email discussion lists,” online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at http://tinyurl.com/yawxua9 . Post of 23 Nov 2009 12:07:47-0800 to AERA-L, JOURNET, & Net-Gold.

Hake, R.R. 2009b. "Over Two-Hundred Education & Science Blogs," 30March; online at http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake/Over200EdSciBlogsU.pdf (2.6 MB). The abstract is online with a provision for comments at http://hakesedstuff.blogspot.com/search/label/Blogged . Please ignore the 67 SPAM "comments" (as of 19 Dec 2009) - a disadvantage of the Blogosphere.

Re: Change or Die: Scholarly E-Mail Lists, Once Vibrant, Fight for Relevance #2

Some blog followers may be interested in a recent discussion-list post of the above title [Hake (2009c). The abstract reads:

ABSTRACT: Jeffrey Young in his “Chronicle of Higher Education” report “Change or Die: Scholarly E-Mail Lists, Once Vibrant, Fight for Relevance,” investigated the validity of historian T. Mills Kelly's argument that the “time of scholarly e-mail lists has passed as professors migrate to blogs, wikis, Twitter, and social networks like Facebook.”

Young concludes, on the contrary, that email lists remain ”a key tool that just about everyone opens every day. As long as that's true, the trusty e-mail list will be valuable to scholars of all stripes.” Young's conclusion is consistent with:

(a) “Academic Discussion Lists: Faculty Lounges, Collective Short-Term Working Memories, Or Academic Journals?” [Hake (2009a)];

(b) “Over Two-Hundred Education & Science Blogs” [Hake (2009b)]; and

(c) "Over Sixty Academic Discussion Lists: List Addresses and URL's for Archives & Search Engines" [Hake (2007)]

I have copied Young's valuable essay into the OPEN! archives of AERA-L at http://tinyurl.com/l37toq.

To access the complete 24 kB post, please click on http://tinyurl.com/l37toq .

REFERENCES [Tiny URL's courtesy http://tinyurl.com/create.php.]

Hake, R.R. 2007. "Over Sixty Academic Discussion Lists: List Addresses and URL's for Archives & Search Engines," online at http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake/ADL-L.pdf (640 kB), or as ref. 49 at http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake . This will soon be updated so as to include TeamLearning-L, TrDev-L, the new address for TeachEdPsych, and a pointer to lists on H-Net. See the ADDENDUM for a critique of academic discussion lists.

Hake, R.R. 2009a. “Academic Discussion Lists: Faculty Lounges, Collective Short-Term Working Memories, or Academic Journals?” online at http://hakesedstuff.blogspot.com/2009/05/academic-discussion-lists-faculty.html with a provision for comments.

Hake, R.R. 2009b. “Over Two-Hundred Education & Science Blogs,” 30 March; online at http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake/Over200EdSciBlogsU.pdf (2.6 MB). The abstract is also at http://hakesedstuff.blogspot.com/2009/03/over-two-hundred-education-science.html with a provision for comments. (Please disregard the 67 SPAM "comments" (as of 18 Dec 2009) - one of the problems of the Blogosphere.)

Hake, R.R. 2009c. “Re: Change or Die: Scholarly E-Mail Lists, Once Vibrant, Fight for Relevance #2,” online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at http://tinyurl.com/l37toq. Post of 2 Jul 2009 17:28:53-0700 to AERA-L and on 2 Jul 2009 20:08:00 to Net-Gold.

Re: Change or Die: Scholarly E-Mail Lists, Once Vibrant, Fight for Relevance #2

Some blog followers may be interested in a recent post [Hake (2009c)] of the above title. The abstract reads:

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ABSTRACT: Jeffrey Young in his “Chronicle of Higher Education” report “Change or Die: Scholarly E-Mail Lists, Once Vibrant, Fight for Relevance,” investigated the validity of historian T. Mills Kelly's argument that the “time of scholarly e-mail lists has passed as professors migrate to blogs, wikis, Twitter, and social networks like Facebook.”

Young concludes, on the contrary, that email lists remain ”a key tool that just about everyone opens every day. As long as that's true, the trusty e-mail list will be valuable to scholars of all stripes.”

Young's conclusion is consistent with (a) “Academic Discussion Lists: Faculty Lounges, Collective Short-Term Working Memories, Or Academic Journals?” [Hake (2009a)]; (b) “Over Two-Hundred Education & Science Blogs” [Hake (2009b)]; and (c) "Over Sixty Academic Discussion Lists: List Addresses and URL's for Archives & Search Engines" [Hake (2007)]. I have copied Young's valuable essay into the OPEN! archives of AERA-L.

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To access the complete 24 kB post, please click on http://tinyurl.com/l37toq .

REFERENCES

Hake, R.R. 2007. "Over Sixty Academic Discussion Lists: List Addresses and URL's for Archives & Search Engines," online at http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake/ADL-L.pdf (640 kB), or as ref. 49 at http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake. This will soon be updated so as to include TeamLearning-L, TrDev-L, the new address for TeachEdPsych, and a pointer to lists on H-Net. See the ADDENDUM for a critique of academic discussion lists.

Hake, R.R. 2009a. “Academic Discussion Lists: Faculty Lounges, Collective Short-Term Working Memories, or Academic Journals?” online at http://hakesedstuff.blogspot.com/2009/05/academic-discussion-lists-faculty.html with a provision for comments.

Hake, R.R. 2009b. “Over Two-Hundred Education & Science Blogs,” 30 March; online at http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake/Over200EdSciBlogsU.pdf (2.6 MB). ). The abstract is also at http://hakesedstuff.blogspot.com/2009/03/over-two-hundred-education-science.html with a provision for comments. (Please disregard the 13 commercial comments from "fdfdf".)

Hake, R.R. 2009c. “Re: Change or Die: Scholarly E-Mail Lists, Once Vibrant, Fight for Relevance #2,” online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at http://tinyurl.com/l37toq . Post of 2 Jul 2009 17:28:53-0700 to AERA-L.

Over Sixty Education Blogs

Some blog readers may be interested in:

Hake, R.R. 2008. "Over Sixty Education Blogs," AERA-L post of 27 November 2008' online on the OPEN AERA-L archives at http://tinyurl.com/6c8ttj .

The ABSTRACT reads (slightly edited): The present post list over sixty education blogs, an expansion and correction of earlier posts "Thirty-two Education Blogs" (an earlier entry in this blog) and "Over Fifty Education Blogs" (transmitted to AERA-L with OPEN archives at http://listserv.aera.net/archives/area-l.html .  I have also indicated over 25 general references to internet usage and blogging. But do blogs and blog lists contribute positively to the dissemination of useful information? Responding to "Thirty-two Education Blogs," Anita Pincas of the University of London complained that few people have time to examine 32 blogs, that keyword searches are not adequate for "finding out just what we need," and that "semantic web documents may help." Problems in finding out just what we need have recently been addressed by physicist Michael Nielsen, who argues that the internet offers us the first major opportunity to create: (a) a collective long-term working memory such as the physics preprint arXiv http://arxiv.org  to replace the antiquated journal system, and (b) a collective short-term working memory for the rapid collaborative development of ideas.  Are blogs and discussion lists harbingers of the latter? 

The abstract only was transmitted to about 30 academic discussion lists with a potential readership of about 17,000. Doubtless a huge spike will occur in the number of people who follow the over 60 blogs referenced in my post  ; - )

Thirty-two Education Blogs

Some blog readers may be interested in:

Hake, R.R. 2008.  "Thirty-two Education Blogs," post of  7 November 2008; online on the OPEN! 

AERA-L archives at  http://tinyurl.com/6leyj6 .

The ABSTRACT reads: "In posts on PhysLrnR and the Learning Sciences and Education Technology Group, Doug Holton listed 12 examples of people who maintain blogs of possible interest to education researchers. In this post I list expanded versions of the Holton-referenced blogs and give information on 20 others to yield a list of 32 education blogs that provide a window into the vast educational blogosphere. 

The abstract only was transmitted to about 30 academic discussion lists with a potential readership of about 17,000. Doubtless a huge spike will occur in the number of people who follow the 32 blogs referenced in my post  ; - )   .