Geoge Veletsianos is putting together a spreadsheet of scholarly journals that deal with educational technology and are freely available to the general public. I’ve always considered it absolutely ridiculous that there is a wealth of important research being done that is inaccessible to the classroom teacher unless they are attending an institution with a subscription or willing to pay exorbitant fees to access the content independently. George has done a great service by culling these links together.
One of the resources developed for my students is a listing of open access journals (name, url, and RSS feed) that publish papers on the nexus between technology and education (educational technology, instructional design, e-learning, online distance education, and so on, and so on). I initially thought that this list would be available elsewhere, but I couldn’t find it. I could find numerous other collections of journals (here, here, here, and here) but nothing that consisted of only open access and only for technology-enhanced education. So, we created our own.
George has also posted a Yahoo! Pipe that sorts all of the journals by popularity (as determined by inbound links) and posted it as a spreadsheet.You can read more about the technical side how he did it as well as the methodology behind it here.
Update: I put together an RSS Feed in Yahoo! Pipes that aggregates all of the RSS feeds in George’s list and sorts them by date published. You can now subscribe to a wealth of resources in one easy click.
(via Open Access Educational Technology journals – George Veletsianos).
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Thanks for doing this Steve! I was wondering if it would be possible to automatically pull in the RSS feeds from the spreadsheet even when new additions are made… do you know how that can be done in yahoo pipes?
It’s a really simple pipe, actually. If you visit the pipe itself (http://bit.ly/1xz2oh) and click “Source” you should be able to copy its relatively simple guts and adapt it to anything you’d like.