Preparing for a talk I am hoping to give in Delhi, I decided to look up the sizes of the Wikipedias in the different Indic languages. There are several ways of assessing the size of a language Wikipedia, none perfect. The most common one is to look at the number of articles, and although this [...]

When I took Wiley’s course Intro to Open Education, it was something quite new for me, and I learnt as much from the design (both the things done well and the things that could be improved) as I learnt from the contents. Turns out his course has inspired a following, who have kept learning both [...]

There are many different milestones when learning a new language. They are important to measure ones progress, especially important since often I am learning independently, and don’t have the crutch of thinking – if I passed the test successfully, then my studies must be on track. But equally or more importantly, they provide a great [...]

Yesterday while looking through the very small adult section in the community library where I am volunteering in Varanasi, I came across a guidebook about Toronto (Toronto: The Unknown City). Although the title is a bit misleading, since it’s more of a conventional guidebook than anything very “unknown” (at least by residents), I still enjoyed [...]