I don't link to items requiring subscription access (which thus means many journal articles). But NRC librarians see fit to distribute this content to researchers nonetheless (utterly no distribution of open access content, of course). What am I missing by not covering the journal articles? Well, a lot of stuff like this article. I looked at it and exclaimed, "Oh! So that's what I was supposed to be inventing!" And the sad part is, it probably is. They probably thought I would find automated course generation (and the subsequent licenses and patents it produces) to be an appropriate reserach program. And when I demur, because I see so clearly the problems with this approach (which I have documented ad nauseum in this newsletter), I am considered not unreasonable, but much worse, unproductive. To me, this illustrates the problem with these journals - not only are they hidden from view, thus preventing any criticism from outside the paradigm, they are, by that fact, utterly and relentlessly conservative, to the detriment of the discipline they purportedly serve.
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