Upgrades to the Group Feature for Commons 1.1
Hello Everyone! As you’ve probably noticed there’s been a few changes to the Commons! We’ve rolled out Commons 1.1 and with it there are several exciting new additions to the Groups feature we’d like to share with you. The first thing you’ll notice is that you now have more control over how you receive email […]
Welcome to The CUNY Academic Commons, Version 1.1!
We’re happy to announce that version 1.1 of the CUNY Academic Commons is now live! All upgrades to the site are important, but this one brought an especially large number of new features and revisions. The Community Team will be blogging about these changes over the next week, but we’d like to start by providing […]
Internal Social Networks May Help Break Down Institutional Silos
“Internal Social Networks May Help Break Down Institutional Silos” October 1, 2010 – Richard Nantel Brandon Hall Research’s Newletter/BlogWorkPlace Learning Today featured the CUNY Academic Commons efforts to use social networking to break down institutional silos. Institutional silos are a reality of all large organizations; whether in academia, the private sector, or government. Internal social […]
New College Social Networks, Unlike Facebook, Foster Academic Interaction
“New College Social Networks, Unlike Facebook, Foster Academic Interaction” October 10, 2010 –Travis Kaya In its “Technology” column, The Chronicle of Higher Education featured CUNY Academic Commons and University of Pennsylvania’s Open Learning Commons as premiere “learning communities.” Universities are turning to social networking to create online learning communities that mix serious academic work, and connections among […]
CUNY Social Network Mixes Scholarship With Facebook-Style Friendship
“CUNY Social Network Mixes Scholarship With Facebook-Style Friendship” September 29, 2010 –Travis Kaya CUNY Academic Commons was featured in “Wired Campus” column of the Chronicle for Higher Education. Rather than setting the Academic Commons in stone, the committee [on Academic Technology] decided that it would leave the platform design—and the source code—open for user input, […]
What We Did Last Summer
As you might know from Brian’s ( @brianfoote ) excellent post on the Ground Control blog and from our About page, the CUNY Academic Commons is administered by several groups: The Development and Community Teams: The Development team handles the technical side of the site — writing code, administering servers, troubleshooting bug reports — while […]
Commons Version 1.0 Has Arrived!
The CUNY Academic Commons has been upgraded to our first named version, CUNY Academic Commons, Version 1.0! Here are some highlights: The Commons Wiki has been bumped up to MediaWiki version 1.15.4 – a substantial jump from 1.13.4. The upgrade lets us install new extensions (extensions in MediaWiki are like plugins in WordPress — they […]
Never Mind the Edupunks; or, The Great Web 2.0 Swindle
“Never Mind the Edupunks; or, The Great Web 2.0 Swindle” July/August, 2010 – Brian Lamb andJim Groom In their article in Educause, the authors discuss the future of educational technology and note the accomplishments of the CUNY Academic Commons. …we offer a shout-out to the jaw-dropping CUNY Academic Commons … which seamlessly integrates the open-source […]
One Week | One Tool: The Reveal
I’m very proud to announce that Boone Gorges, Lead Developer of the CUNY Academic Commons, recently took part in a remarkable summer institute funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities. Titled “One Week | One Tool: A Digital Barn Raising,” the program gathered twelve participants from across the country in […]
6 Degrees of Open Access
I have to admit that prior to my attendance of the Digital University Conference on April 21, 2010, my understanding of “open access” was essentially non-existent. After attending the afternoon panel, A Digital Future?, my grasp of open access and academic publishing started coming into clearer focus. As someone who has not (yet) published an academic article, I had no […]
