I’ve been interested in e-book readers for a long time, and a good friend generously agreed to lend me his Bokeen Cybook v3 reader for a week or two to play with, since that is the only way you can really get a feel for this technology – just looking at it for a few [...]

I’ve been interested in accreditation/evaluation of Open Education for a long time, and when we discussed a number of different theoretical approaches to the purpose of schooling, and the purpose of accreditation, in class, I realized that it would be very interesting to try to apply these theories to the problem of accreditation of open [...]

Education Commons is the unit at OISE that handles all the technology needs for teaching, learning and research and they run an infrequent speaker’s series on topics that would interest graduate students and faculty. Last fall, Leslie Chan presented on open access (video), and at that time he very generously proposed me as a future [...]

I first went to the annual Comparative and International Education Society conference last year, when it was held at Columbia University. It’s a huge event, with something like 3.000+ attendees, including a very hefty component from OISE, both professors and graduate students. It was great going there only as a participant, and getting the feel [...]

I am giving a few different presentations this year. The first one is at the OpenCourseWare Consortium/Connexions conference in Houston in the first week of February. The presentation is based on the preliminary research I am doing for my MA thesis, which will be on open educational resources in China. In China, there are roughly [...]

I first met Cathy Casserly at the Open Ed conference in Dalian in 2008, where she immediately welcomed me and began thinking of projects I could get involved with and ways she and Hewlett could support me. At that time, I was still an undergraduate, and barely knew anyone in the field – and her [...]

The article below was written for the IFLA Section of Libraries for Children and Young Adults Newsletter, December 2008 (just published), edited by Singaporean librarian Ivan Chew, whose blog I have been reading for a long time, and whom I was lucky enough to meet in Singapore in 2007, while getting a new visa for [...]

I while back, Chris Watkins asked me if he could interview me about the ideas behind the Peer2Peer University, and I was happy to agree. He asked me some thoughtful questions, and it was an interesting opportunity to be able to reflect on some of the choices that we had made. The interview has now [...]

I came across a newsflash at the University of Oslo website, published January 14th, about their new open access electronic book-series called Oslo Studies in Language.
Here are some translated sections from the news brief (from Norwegian): – Now we hope that language researchers and lignuists from the four relevant departments at the Faculty of Humanities [...]

So my website got hacked, and I lost my entire WordPress database. I realized that I could find most of the information through Google Cache, but did not look forward to the prospect of copying and pasting over 200 articles. So I thought I’d try to do it in an automated fashion – and I [...]