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 […]
I just posted a list of the links that I mentioned during the Open Learning lecture on our course LMS, so I thought I might as well put it here. These are only websites or people I referred to explicitly, I could obviously add 20 more links just for general background, other great projects I […]
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 on Wikipedia, […]
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 to be, […]
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 […]
Danah Boyd, a researcher of emerging social networks, and teens’ behavior, wrote about the “social externalities” of innovation. The concept of externalities, negative or positive, is becoming accepted partly due to the environmental movement. The idea is that whenever a voluntary trade occurs, it is supposed to benefit both parts - I have a chair, […]
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 World: […]
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 am very sorry that I am quite late for this week’s assignment, but my life has been very busy. In the past, I have usually read through everyone else’s submissions before posting my own, but this week I am trying to do this based solely on my own impressions from the course material, since […]
