This talk by Professor Wolfgang Christian (delivered on 5 September 2013) entitled "‘Building a National Digital Library for Computational Physics Education at All Levels" outlines the integration of ComPADRE with the UCT Physics curriculum.  The pedagogical and technical features of the UCT Physics learning platform and current efforts to align this material with United States national and state standards for science teaching are described. - For more details about this talk, see: http://openuct.uct.ac.za/blog/colloquium-open-source-physics-uct

Building a National Digital Library for Computational Physics Education at All Levels

Open access has received a great deal of coverage in the press and blogosphere of late with the recent policy announcements by bodies such as the European Commission, DFID and Research Councils UK that all research that they fund must be available open access in coming years. What does this mean? This presentation will address common myths about open access and answer questions including: What is the difference between the green route and the gold, and how do they each work? How is open access funded? Are open access journal articles peer reviewed and ISI listed?  Is open access only about journal articles; what about other types of scholarly outputs? How does open access link to other forms of openness such as open education resources and open research? Does open access mean giving away your copyright? How does open licensing work? In essence the talk will explain the opportunities open access provides academics to improve the online visibility of their outputs.

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