The electronic publishing and the Open Access movement has led to many different experiments with academic journals. One idea that I found quite interesting is “open peer review” (the Wikipedia article is a good overview). Open peer review could simply mean that the author knows the names of the reviewers, which is not very interesting [...]

Recently, both Leigh Blackall and Dave Cormier have blogged about OER as the new colonialism, and on both blogs there were lively discussions in the comment sections about what this meant. One of the ideas discussed is that if you try to bring Creative Commons to a context where copyright generally isn’t well respected, you [...]

I’ve been aware of Leigh Blackall for a long time, and have found his work and writings consistently very inspiring and interesting. Leigh works for Otago Polytechnic, which is an inspiring example of how an institution can “go open” (see their mini-documentary). I remember emailing him during last Open Education conference, saying that I had [...]