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 […]
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 […]
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 hybrid […]
In February, I translated a news report about the Indonesian government planning to buy the Copyright for Indonesian text books, and let libraries distribute them freely. At that time I made a plea for these books to be also released as Creative Commons on the web. Since then three more articles have been published on […]
It’s hard to take any anthropology courses without hearing about research ethics from professors eager to deal with anthropology’s colonial past, and before we went on our field works we also discussed quite a bit about research ethics. There are many aspects to this field, however many face the issue because they need to get […]
When I was dabbling in QBasic and Visual Basic a decade ago, I never thought about using version control. Later, I learnt about CVS and SVN and thought it was a neat way of enabling lot’s of people to collaborate online. I used it so I could access cutting edge open source software, but never […]
Sometimes the world seems to be going in the right direction. The sun outside is beautiful, even in the cold Toronto weather, and I just found out that Obama won all three primaries along the Potomac, and the Harvard faculty voted yay to institute the first faculty-initiated open access mandate.
Stian
From the excellent [i:boekoe] blog on book culture in Indonesia, comes a press release about the Indonesian government. I have translated it below (slightly shortened):
The Indonesian government buys the copyright to textbooks
(From the newspaper Kompas, February 8, 2008)
The Indonesian government has decided to buy the copyright of textbooks for primary, secondary and high school. […]
Once again, this submission is egregiously late, and I apologize. I came back from the Open Translation Tools conference, which was absolutely excellent, and provided me with lots of new ideas and great projects, many relevant to open learning/open education. I will blog more about this soon.
I think one of the reasons for taking so […]
The OpenCourseWars (Wiley, 13 pages)
QUESTIONS: What will the future of higher education look like? What impact will the open education movement have? How will we get there from here? What will be the effects of open education movement upon K-12 education? (alessandro giorni) What will be the effects of open education movement upon high […]
