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, [...]

The other thing that has been going on is that I delivered a lecture on Open Learning and Global Education to the class I TA for on Tuesday. Although I taught English in a Chinese university for a year, and I have given several public presentations, this was my first proper two-hour academic lecture, with [...]

I know that I am egregiously late with this assignment, and I apologize for that. In addition to some major events in my personal life, two important things have happened that are quite related to this course. The first is that I finally submitted my application for an MA in theory and policy studies at [...]

I am currently preparing to give a lecture on open education and global ICT trends next week, and I am doing some readings. The following article is quite interesting, although a bit controversial, and I thought I’d just post my notes here.
Daniel, J., Kanwar, A., Uvali-Trumbi, S. (2007). Mass Tertiary Education in the Developing World: [...]