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Easy deposit of published or unpublished materials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

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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.), …