After two years of discussions, that for my part began at iSummit in Dubrovnik in 2007, we finally decided to put our thoughts into action. We were featured in an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education on Monday, which even included a video of Philipp talking about the idea. Philipp blogged about the project [...]
I must be completely out of the loop. Not only has Toronto finally gotten a decent TTC (public transit) route planner, of the kind where you can type in two different intersections or addresses, and it will tell you what different buses, streetcars and subways you have to take, but it went live 3 months [...]
I’ve been aware of Michael Wesch’s work for quite some time, and I loved both The Machine is Us/ing Us and A Vision of Students Today. The last movie, I showed in a class I taught about higher education around the world. It also inspired me to try to have students use Google documents to [...]
I have always been very interested in languages, and I am lucky enough to be able to speak a few. My mother tongue is Norwegian, but I also speak for example Italian, Spanish, Esperanto, Chinese and Indonesian. And English of course.
What language to use on the web is a tricky question. And some might consider [...]
I am doing a course on global governance and educational change, and we have been going through standard theories of political science and international relations theory. This week, we had to write a reflection paper to apply some of these theories on a topic of our choosing, to prove that we had understood them. I [...]
Zaid Ali Alsagoff, who has an intriguing Norwegian connection, has carved out a neat niche in the edublogger community, providing colorful and interesting slideshows on different topics, whether it be Web 2.0 educational tools, lists of edubloggers, or other resource collections. He has even published a book, called 69 learning adventures in 6 galaxies, available [...]
From the excellent Open Access News, I chanced across the article Why Current Publication Practices May Distort Science by Neal S. Young, John P. A. Ioannidis, Omar Al-Ubaydli. I am already familiar with many of the problems that plague the existing scholarly publishing system, and have been very interested in approaches such as open notebook [...]
