Some subscribers to TeamLearning-L may be interested in a recent post "Re: Change or Die: Scholarly E-Mail Lists, Once Vibrant, Fight for Relevance #2" [Hake (2009c)]. The abstract reads: ************************************ ABSTRACT: Jeffrey Young in his "Chronicle of Higher Education" report "Change or Die: Scholarly E-Mail Lists, Once Vibrant, Fight for Relevance," investigated the validity of historian T. Mills Kelly's argument that the "time of scholarly e-mail lists has passed as professors migrate to blogs, wikis, Twitter, and social networks like Facebook." Young concludes, on the contrary, that email lists remain "a key tool that just about everyone opens every day. As long as that's true, the trusty e-mail list will be valuable to scholars of all stripes." Young's conclusion is consistent with (a) "Academic Discussion Lists: Faculty Lounges, Collective Short-Term Working Memories, Or Academic Journals?" [Hake (2009a)]; (b) "Over Two-Hundred Education & Science Blogs" [Hake (2009b)]; and (c) "Over Sixty Academic Discussion Lists: List Addresses and URL's for Archives & Search Engines" [Hake (2007)]. I have copied Young's valuable essay into the OPEN! archives of AERA-L. ************************************ To access the complete 24 kB post, please click on <http://tinyurl.com/l37toq>. Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University 24245 Hatteras Street, Woodland Hills, CA 91367 Honorary Member, Curmudgeon Lodge of Deventer, The Netherlands. <[log in to unmask]> <http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake/> <http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi/> <http://HakesEdStuff.blogspot.com/> REFERENCES Hake, R.R. 2007. "Over Sixty Academic Discussion Lists: List Addresses and URL's for Archives & Search Engines," online at <http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake/ADL-L.pdf> (640 kB), or as ref. 49 at <http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake>. This will soon be updated so as to include TeamLearning-L, TrDev-L, the new address for TeachEdPsych, and a pointer to lists on H-Net. See the ADDENDUM for a critique of academic discussion lists. Hake, R.R. 2009a. "Academic Discussion Lists: Faculty Lounges, Collective Short-Term Working Memories, or Academic Journals?" online at <http://hakesedstuff.blogspot.com/2009/05/academic-discussion-lists-faculty.html> with a provision for comments. Hake, R.R. 2009b. "Over Two-Hundred Education & Science Blogs," 30 March; online at <http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake/Over200EdSciBlogsU.pdf> (2.6 MB). The abstract is also at <http://hakesedstuff.blogspot.com/2009/03/over-two-hundred-education-science.html> with a provision for comments. (Please disregard the 13 commercial comments from "fdfdf".) Hake, R.R. 2009c. "Re: Change or Die: Scholarly E-Mail Lists, Once Vibrant, Fight for Relevance #2," online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at <http://tinyurl.com/l37toq>. Post of 2 Jul 2009 17:28:53-0700 to AERA-L and on 2 Jul 2009 20:08:00 to Net-Gold. The abstract is also at <http://hakesedstuff.blogspot.com/2009/07/re-change-or-die-scholarly-e-mail-lists.html> with a provision for comments.