(Read about the background here, and here). An update on the copyright buying project, from [i:boekoe], taken from an article in Kompas, March 27, 2008. The Department of Education has bought the copyrights of 37 books in 2007, and will buy 250 titles more in 2008. The books will then be accessible through the internet [...]
The idea of OpenCourseWare in its current incarnation started with MIT (note that the Wikipedia page I linked to talks as if MIT are the only ones in the world who do OCW – I should update it, but I won’t manage tonight, unless someone beats me to it). They received funding from the Hewlett [...]
I have written about the plan to buy the copyright for textbooks in Indonesia and publish the books online (here, and here). Today I found out, through the excellent Indian book blog Scholars Without Borders that the Indian National Council on Educational Research and Training (NCERT) offers free downloadable versions of many Indian K-12 text [...]
Hybrid models The new tools available for connecting us and sharing text, video and audio has made it possible to put online many of the interactions and events that used to require moving many people physically to the same place. There are many ways of attempting to do this, more or less successfully. I think [...]
Google Books vs OCA We’ve heard a lot about Google Books, whether it’s Google’s grand plans or them getting sued by publishers, as well as various complaints about quality control (see this First Monday article). There have also been discussions about the terms of use (many books that are clearly in the public domain show [...]
This mp3 provides much better quality sound, but below you can see the live performance. The lyrics are the same. sore tugu pancoran pillar at night at Pancoran (famous area in Jakarta) si budi kecil kuyub menggigil the very little guy shivers menahan dingin tanpa jas hujan trying to stand the cold without a rain [...]
