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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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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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Peer 2 Peer in action in Berlin

Friday, November 20, 2009

Photo by John Britton CC BY-SA
A Peer 2 Peer University co-founder recently posed this question to our tight knit community of volunteers: “Where are we in terms of P2PU’s evolution (one guy with his shirt off, or three people falling over themselves?)” Of course, this question was in reference to this infamous YouTube video of [...]

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Presenting at the WhippleHill User Conference 2009

Thursday, July 2, 2009

I like Boston; it’s unassuming. The city doesn’t pretend to be anything but what it is, namely, a smallish town with high rises in some directions and green, trimmed shrubbery in others. Granted, I have not seen much of the city; having wandered to the Commons after my talk, I managed to surprise only Paul [...]

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