I have been following the Burma protests, carefully optimistic, hoping that the great powers will take this opportunity to speak up and be pro-active, especially the other ASEAN countries. Now it looks like that is not going to happen, although I keep hoping, impressed with the great courage displayed by the citizens of Burma. I [...]
I TA for a class on International Studies and International Communication, and this week we touched upon the concept of whether there was one universal standard for web aesthetics, or whether it varied according to cultural region. I notice very clearly when browsing Chinese websites, for example, that they are a lot denser than what [...]
As noted in my OpenEd 4 submission, I really wanted to read the MIT OCW Case Studies and the MIT OCW Evaluation Report, and today I finally found time. The Case Studies are easy to locate, but the evaluation report was actually quite hidden. I had a look at the case studies before, and they [...]
QUESTIONS: What do these overviews of the field have in common? What do they emphasize differently? What are the aims of the authors of each report? Do you see a bias toward or against any ideas, organizations, or approaches in any of the reports? Which report spoke the most clearly to you, and why do [...]
A Review of the Open Educational Resources (OER) Movement: Achievements, Challenges, and New Opportunities (Atkins, Brown, and Hammond, 80 pages) OLI – pedagogical approach, lot’s of interactive tools – supposed to be used to teach a course, adapted by instructor, introductory huge classes… can be self-learner too success disaster – a teacher has access to [...]
I just finished reading through the three required readings for the last three weeks. Since I was moving from Norway to Toronto, and starting all my courses and my TAing here, I have not been able to keep up, and had to do a major skippertak (from mummimamma: “Norwegian has a word for this, skippertak, [...]
I have been thinking for a while about wanting to post more quick links, without having to write long articles, when I want to share articles I have read, or sites I have come across. Perhaps something like what Kottke does with his tiny links. Perhaps I could also integrate my Google Reader shared links [...]
So, I am back in Toronto – have been for about two weeks, but am still busy finding my bearings. I have a busy year ahead of me, preparing to write my thesis on community libraries in Indonesia (I might blog more about that later), TAing for a course on international communications and international development, [...]
In a few days Norwegians will vote for local and county representatives, and of course the newspapers and TV channels are full of debates and analysis. Today I watched the equivalent of a town hall meeting with mostly representatives from the national parties in Northern Norway on our state television channel (link in Norwegian). The [...]
This entire summer, NRK2, one of the state TV channels in Norway, have been broadcasting Bollywood movies every Friday night. To me, this was a real treat. Although I don’t enjoy every singly Bollywood movie (how could I, when they produce over 900 per year?), I seem to me more receptive to them than many [...]
