The OpenCourseWars (Wiley, 13 pages) QUESTIONS: What will the future of higher education look like? What impact will the open education movement have? How will we get there from here? What will be the effects of open education movement upon K-12 education? (alessandro giorni) What will be the effects of open education movement upon high [...]

So I updated my tools, first adressing a silly bug in the redir script (Update 23.11.2007: Fixed the code so that article names with spaces work again) and also by changing the GET method in my bigger script (which I’ve had lying around for ever) to HEAD, so that it wouldn’t cause to much impact [...]

So, having duly apologized (1, 2), I will have a look at what people have written during these last one and a half weeks, both on learning objects, but also on other things. Boot camp/holiday camp/deadlines Thieme has a number of very interesting posts, many posted from the OpenLearn 2007 conference, where I’d have loved [...]

The other thing that has been going on is that I delivered a lecture on Open Learning and Global Education to the class I TA for on Tuesday. Although I taught English in a Chinese university for a year, and I have given several public presentations, this was my first proper two-hour academic lecture, with [...]

I know that I am egregiously late with this assignment, and I apologize for that. In addition to some major events in my personal life, two important things have happened that are quite related to this course. The first is that I finally submitted my application for an MA in theory and policy studies at [...]

I am currently preparing to give a lecture on open education and global ICT trends next week, and I am doing some readings. The following article is quite interesting, although a bit controversial, and I thought I’d just post my notes here. Daniel, J., Kanwar, A., Uvali-Trumbi, S. (2007). Mass Tertiary Education in the Developing [...]

My wonderful friend sent me a few poems by Wisława Szymborska for breakfast. Just yesterday I was riding the subway, which sometimes displays poems instead of ads on the inside of the cars, and came across to wonderful poems that I copied down and sent to her. I love this way of reading poems – [...]

I’m not a great programmer, but sometimes I come up with little neat tools that might be useful to others. I am going to try to post more of them on this blog, and I also made a page called Tools and hacks, where I will be collecting them. Here is the first one: Wikipedia [...]

My friend Peder noted that this phenomenon was preceded by a film by Woody Allen, which took this to the extremes. I will copy and paste from the Wikipedia article: What’s Up, Tiger Lily? is the first film directed by Woody Allen. He also wrote and appeared in this 1966 comedy, which utilized clips from [...]

I’m posting this weeks contribution early, since I am going away to Quebec for the weekend. I chanced upon a few posts that seem to be saying similar things. Both Catia and Antonio have read Coase’s Penguin or the Nature of the Firm. Catia discusses the different non-monetary incentives that can induce people to contribute [...]