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Globally democratized learning is indeed a good thing

Thursday, July 1, 2010

I’m blogging over at P2PU these days, mostly about issues of specific relevance to that project, but I posted a response to a Chronicle of Higher Education piece today that is equally at home here. Apologies for the cross-posting.

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A Georgetown University Course Project

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Last month, a graduate student at Georgetown University in the Communication, Culture, and Technology program interviewed me via email about new media and my career path, especially pertaining to my role at Creative Commons. It was mainly for his course, so it wasn’t posted anywhere, but then I remembered this blog after I fed it [...]

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Health care reform at last! Score one for “open”

Monday, March 22, 2010

The US Congress finally – finally! – passed a comprehensive health care reform package yesterday. This is fantastic news for all Americans, and indeed perhaps the globe. We can quibble about details of how it could have been even better, but the fact is that this legislation contains many crucial facets that should be part [...]

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Association of American Publishers continues its campaign of textbook (mis)information

Thursday, March 11, 2010

The Open Educational Resource movement, based on the idea that educational content which is publicly licensed for modification and redistribution is a positive innovation in education, has just begun to break into the mainstream. Conceptually, the idea has been in the public sphere for years now with projects like the OpenCourseWare growing to over 200 [...]

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New models for advanced education?

Monday, March 8, 2010

A recent editorial in Nature is entitled “Do scientists really need a PhD?” Briefly, the vaunted status of a PhD as the ticket to running interesting research projects and being a part of the global academic enterprise is being questioned. Indeed, in some places, such as the BGI (a genomics institute) in Shenzen, China, the [...]

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OER and the gender divide

Thursday, October 22, 2009

One of the most frustrating aspects of working in the education field is those persistent performance gaps that seem so resistant to change. Over the decades, there has been no shortage of specific cases where traditionally intractable differences were erased, at least for a time, whether we are talking about the comparatively poor performance of [...]

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