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Open Access Initiatives: Kaleidoscope Telearn & VDS Integration

Explore the Kaleidoscope Telearn Open Archive for free access to scientific publications worldwide. Discover VDS initiative promoting collaboration among PhD students and researchers. Join a virtual platform for integrated academic life, learning activities, and resources. Find out about the impacts, opportunities, and challenges of these initiatives.

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Open Access Initiatives: Kaleidoscope Telearn & VDS Integration

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  1. The KaleidoscopeTelearn & VDS initiatives Professor Pierre Tchounikine University of Le Mans, France

  2. Telearn Open Archive initiative

  3. Open archive basic principles • Free access to scientific publications for everybody from everywhere • Easy deposit of published or unpublished materials • Sustainable repository (more reliable then personal “home pages”)

  4. Kaleidoscope Telearn archive • 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

  5. http://telearn.noe-kaleidoscope.org/

  6. Open Archive FAQ • 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.

  7. VDS initiative(Virtual Doctoral School)

  8. Virtual Doctoral School: objectives promote community building among PhD Students and senior researchers • PhD learning activities and resources • a technological platform to support an integrated academic life and promote collaboration within PhD students • an integration with existing practices and an institutional recognition

  9. Learning activities Organized by several labs • 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

  10. 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 • …

  11. The platform documents page

  12. The platform PhD members page

  13. 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 • …

  14. Towards sustainability • An entity that networks a set of European Universities andtakes 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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