A Vision to transform and democratise global education and change
The Oselux Vision is
To Live a Spirit-Led, Project-Based Life, Transforming and Democratising Global Education and Change, By Continually Up-skilling Global Citizens, Teams, Organizations, Countries, and Continents, Creating Innovative Products, Services, Digital Firms, Wealth, Jobs, Enhancing the Peace, Prosperity, Joy, and Happiness of Individuals and Countries, Especially Nigeria, Africa, and Developing Countries of the Global South, and Publishing the Ideas Through Multimedia Channels Across the Q-Helix.
We live this vision in creating arguably the world’s most innovative publishing system which puts equal emphasis on excellent Research, Integration of Knowledge, Applications, and Teaching – the RIAT spheres of the core higher education business.
For this purpose, we design all publications – superbooks, research monographs, newsletters, conference proceedings, and journal articles – to enable readers and learners to become more creative than possible with traditional publications. The publications are, therefore, informed by the steps in the Research Methods Canvas© below, originated to simultaneously make all academic subjects research and enterprise development units prepare prospective authors for this game-shifting endeavour.
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For details of this canvas, please see our preprint, Mind the Gaps: Addressing Some Failings in Effective Research Design and Execution Using a Research Methods Canvas, at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353953984.
See also Conversations on the Seeming Uselessness of Traditional PhDs and Academic Papers: Corporate Academic Responses to the Question ‘Is Elon Musk Right in Saying that Most PhDs Are Useless, at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360550351.
The motivation for transforming and democratizing global education and training as in the above vision is to continually produce actionable knowledge that will gear up the GDP of nations through the skills bases of their citizens.
Superbooks are seminal textbooks and research monographs that almost say it all, by covering in-depth all elements of the Research Methods Canvas©. They are therefore deep in theory, practice, policy perspectives, and amply illustrated with real-life projects and case studies. They are developed in line with Oselux 5 Forces and 7Es Philosophy explored in https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360550351 and a deeply innovative pedagogical system, consisting of circa twenty signature pedagogies, including accelerated learning principles, creative dialogue, and techniques used to drill elite sports stars and military personnel. Compared to five teaching formats in traditional education, this system is arguably the best in the world for training star creatives, innovators, and entrepreneurial minds who can achieve the Oselux Vision.
Uniqueness of our publishing
- Extends three main criteria of originality and contributions to knowledge in traditional higher education and publishing to seven.
- Uses the above canvas to produce and publish PhDTech theses which are deep in theory and practice and easy to spin off as related enterprises, usually digital firms.
- The criteria are very difficult to game by simply adapting other authors’ works. This is because to successfully cover the criteria in the Ladder of Contributions to Knowledge in the canvas, an author must have painstakingly undertaken the underpinning research, and taken time to develop the paper with penetrating insights.
- To enable the guiding Research Methods Canvas© to bring benefitting authors to the cutting-edge of academic and professional writing, prospective authors may benefit from related training we provide in meeting the publishing criteria.
The remits of AfriWorld publishing
The following remits are fully researched in the School of Academic and Global Publishing at the International Centre for Research and Enterprise Development, www.icrd7e.com. The research results continually reinforce the quality of our publications to almost inimitable standards.
- The academic and global publishing enterprise
- Pathways, perils, and innovations in academic and global publishing
- How radically innovative academic publishing is achieved using the Research Methods Canvas © and related protocols
- Automating the publishing process
- Hence, mastering fast-paced publishing of high-impact papers, journals, and reports
- Mastering the nature of corporate academic theses, superbooks, and research monographs that flow from the seven stiff criteria of excellence in publishing
- Organising publication networks, special interest groups, and author syndicates for developing superbooks and research monographs in different disciplines
- Hot-housing intensive international conferences and specialist workshops on advanced research methods and top-quality paper writing boot-camps
- Developing excellent and high-impact personal and organizational publishing programmes, using insights from fractals
- The Holy Grail in Successful Corporate-Academic Publishing, including perspectives in
- E-publishing and the economics of integrated e-publishing platforms and marketplaces
- Connectionist models of publishing and related ecosystems
- Creative writing and plotting of different genres of novels
- Blogs, vlogs, and use of multimedia
- Furiously effective self-publishing and viral multi-channel marketing of bestsellers
- Related specialisms in journalism, for example science journalism and financial journalism
- Case studies in innovative journalism, for example Huffington Post, Financial Times, and The Economist
- Emerging perspectives in publishing