Open Science Initiatives at Emerging Adulthood

Emerging Adulthood and Its Characteristics in Iranian University Students

Purpose: Emerging adulthood (EA) theory has been proposed as a distinct developmental period between adolescence and adulthood by Arnett in 2000. This construct is promptly embraced by contemporary scholars, and research on emerging adulthood increased over the past decade in many countries, but yet questions remained about the universality of emerging adulthood. This article is extracted from ...

e-Science initiatives in Venezuela

Within the context of the nascent e-Science infrastructure in Venezuela, we describe several web-based scientific applications developed at the Centro Nacional de Cálculo Cient́ıfico Universidad de Los Andes (CeCalCULA), Mérida, and at the Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cient́ıficas (IVIC), Caracas. The different strategies that have been followed for implementing quantum chemistry and a...

A Gradual Transition: Emerging Adulthood

Are They Making Our Privates Public? - Emerging Risks of Governmental Open Data Initiatives

Governments around the world are opening their data vaults to public (and corporate) access and scrutiny. Notable examples including New York City’s NYC Datamine, Philadelphia’s OpenData Philly, Europe’s Open Data Challenge, and Canada’s Open Data Framework, which now spans several cities including Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton, and Ottawa. Anyone can read government plans, budgets, contractor l...

An emerging typology for analysing OER initiatives

The investigation of OER initiatives requires rigorous appraisal based on theory as well as descriptions based on practice if we are to understand them and how they might be sustained. A robust typology or flexible classification scheme will enable better comparison of common elements over widely different OER initiatives and help inform and improve praxis at all levels and across all socio-eco...