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The Kaleidoscope Telearn & VDS initiatives
Professor Pierre TchounikineUniversity of Le Mans, France
Telearn Open Archive initiative
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Free access to scientific publications for everybody from everywhere
Easy deposit of published or unpublished materials
Sustainable repository (more reliable then personal “home pages”)
Open archive basic principles
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Defragmenting local / disciplinary archives Different disciplines Different cultures
Different materials PDF Documents Videos Technology assets Bibliographical descriptions
Different languages issue / metadata
Hosted by an external organization
Kaleidoscope Telearn archive
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http://telearn.noe-kaleidoscope.org/
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Weapon against plagiarism Impact of a paper uploaded on an OA is
three to four times its impact without it (?)
Many publishers are supportive to the OAI Possibility to stamp documents
Quality stamps Organization stamps Etc.
Open Archive FAQ
VDS initiative (Virtual Doctoral School)
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Virtual Doctoral School: objectives
1. PhD learning activities and resources
2. a technological platform to support an integrated academic life and promote collaboration within PhD students
3. an integration with existing practices and an institutional recognition
promote community building among PhD Students and senior researchers
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Learning activities
Cognitive approaches to media based learning (course)11 PhD from 7 different countries
Script approaches in CSCL (workshop)
14 PhD students from 5 different countries
Role of ICT in argumentation in science (workshop)
15 PhD students from 6 different countries
(…)
5-7 events / year
Organized by several labs
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Resources
List of doctoral schools
List of learning activities from Kal Universities
Outputs from the organized learning activities
Outputs from Kal content-based activities
Review of literature
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The platform
documents page
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The platform
PhD members page
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Lessons learned
Major interest for the VDS concept effective integration integration in the long-term (via PhD students) scientific interest in sharing top-level courses …
Major difficulties PhD education is very different in different countries /
different disciplines national requirements document-based courses / interactive workshops …
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Towards sustainability
An entity that networks a set of European Universities and takes the best from its networked members to create top-level PhD students
A set of opportunities that Ph.D. students could benefit from within the context of, and subject to the constraints of, their local institutions (not a common programme)
Brokering existing learning activities and creating collaboratively new ones
A flexible structure No burden No “standardization” Different uses: punctual use, long-time agreements, curricula
Issues: quality insurance, recognition (ECTS, etc.), …
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