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 […]
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. […]
Late, sadly, for the last time. At a pizza restaurant in New York City, on my way to Norway for my Christmas break. Coming back from Zagreb, I was in a daze of grading 85 long exams, and (minimally) preparing for my own, before taking off for Norway (by Buffalo and New York).
I feel that […]
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 […]
I just posted a list of the links that I mentioned during the Open Learning lecture on our course LMS, so I thought I might as well put it here. These are only websites or people I referred to explicitly, I could obviously add 20 more links just for general background, other great projects I […]
So, having duly apologized (1, 2), I will have a look at what people have written during these last one and a half weeks, both on learning objects, but also on other things.
Boot camp/holiday camp/deadlines
Thieme has a number of very interesting posts, many posted from the OpenLearn 2007 conference, where I’d have loved to be, […]
