Welcome to META I.

Transforming Education at All Levels


Tuesday, January 27, 2009

The Global Education Collaborative

The Global Education Collaborative is a community for teachers and students interested in global education. Contribute by adding media, conversation, and collaborative project ideas.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Special Interest Groups

We invite you to indicate your areas of research interests using META I.'s Discussion Forum. This would potentially facilitate the establishment of one or more Special Interest Group (SIG). A SIG may serve to discuss and further develop common research topics and to exchange relevant data and other information among the participants.

Any project materialized from these discussions or other efforts remain within the sole control of the involved parties, to the extent agreed upon by those individuals and any potential publisher or other stakeholder.

META I. seeks, requires, and has no proprietorship in any resulting project. We aim to stimulate an active appetite for relevant, scholarly, research activities. Therefore, we ask that you share your efforts, your challenges, and successes, thus allowing a wide audience to benefit.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

First Open Access Day on October 14, 2008

A release by SPARC notes that a coalition of organizations have jointly announced the first international Open Access Day. Educators, researchers, students, librarians and the general public are invited to participate in the live worldwide broadcasts of events.

In North America, events will be held at 7:00 PM (Eastern) and 7:00 PM (Pacific) and feature appearances from:

Sir Richard Roberts, Ph.D., F.R.S.
Joint winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1993 for discovering split genes and RNA splicing, one of 26 Nobel Prize-winners to sign the Open Letter to U.S. Congress in support of taxpayer access to publicly funded research, and currently at New England Biolabs, USA. [7PM Eastern]

Philip E. Bourne, Ph.D.
Philip E. Bourne is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of PLoS Computational Biology and the author of the popular PLoS Computational Biology Ten Simple Rules Series. He is Professor in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California San Diego, Associate Director of the RCSB Protein Data Bank, Senior Advisor to the San Diego Supercomputer Center, an Adjunct Professor at the Burnham Institute, and Co-Founder of SciVee. [7PM Pacific]

Click here to discover more about Open Access Day.

META I. embraces and promotes transparency and free online access to scholarly resources. In support, additional links about this topic can be found under the Open Access Links heading on this page.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Research Projects

META I. is committed to research projects that can positively impact educational practice within the U.S. Virgin Islands and the wider Caribbean. We are seeking to partner with individuals and organizations who are interested in promoting and producing scholarly research on a wide variety of topics, targeted specifically to academia within the Caribbean, with global relevance.

The intent of these research projects is to produce deliverables intended for journals, other varied publications, presentations, conferences, proceedings, professional development, and other research-driven activities.

META I. is providing this platform from which ideas for projects can be presented, discussed, initiated, and effected. Feel free to list your name and contact information along with potential research topics for which you have an interest. You are encouraged to use this platform as well as META I.'s Discussion forum to report on research that underpins the criterion stated above. Keep posted for upcoming developments.

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About Model Education Training and Assessment Initiatives

Mission
Model Education Training and Assessment Initiatives (META I.) is a consortium of scholars committed to educational practices, policies, and issues which impact individuals, organizations, and the community, primarily within the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Caribbean and is focused on facilitating excellence through the use of quality research, targeted instruction, and robust technologies.

This online forum has been established to cultivate and encourage the sharing and coalescing of ideas and open discourse among the populace on topics with relevance to education.

Vision
META I. will be active in researching, advising, promoting, and implementing best practices within education with a laser-focus on learner-achievement and with unwavering dedication to educational advancement and transformation at all levels.

Goals
The primary impetus of META I. is to forge educational transformation and academic excellence at all levels. META I. will:
  • Facilitate an inclusive and collaborative atmosphere for engaging in scholarly and academic-driven research
  • Identify and develop planning models to underpin educational practices
  • Promote targeted standards and best practices for specific learning environments
  • Promote data-collection initiatives among educators to drive decision-making in support of responsive, learner-centered, paradigms


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