Knowledge2Go

The problem with research methods textbooks is that they are so utterly boring.  Not only is there a stifling monotony as one flips from one to another – saying the same thing (not plagiarized, of course) in umpteen different ways – but they manage to challenge the wakefulness of even first time readers. The problem [...]

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A new report, Rip-off 101: How The Current Practices Of The Textbook Industry Drive Up The Cost Of College Textbooks, by the US consumer body CALPRIG has been causing quite a stir. Some highlights from the report (which is available as a free pdf download):
* Textbooks are expensive and have been steadily getting more expensive
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The second call for papers is out for the the Fourth international biennial conference on the foundations of practice-based research in art and design at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, on 7 & 8 July 2006.

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Stephen Downes links to the Report of the 21st Century Literacy Summit (pdf document) held in 2004. Lots of interesting material on new media literacy - precisely the sort of stuff we want to include in the Knowledge2Go book.

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Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine points to various interesting new approaches to writing and publishing books, including open-source-edit and self-publish and (in the comments at the bottom) soliciting donations in advance and then making the book available for free. (Photo credit: David Bleasdale)

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Thought I’d put a link here to the manifesto I wrote last year about research in (and against) the knowledge economy, as it conveys much of what we’re hoping to do with the upcoming book.

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We (Martin Terre Blanche and Kevin Durrheim) will be using this blog as part of the process of writing a new student textbook on doing research in (and against) the knowledge economy.

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