October 2007
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OpenED week 8: Reflections
I have looked through some of the blogs posted in week 8 of the Open Education course, and made some personal reflections. These are described in this blogpost, which ends with an argument on how to reach sustainability by mixing commercial activity with educational activity and the creation of resources. Both social as economical sustainability are attained according to this value mechanism (if...
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OpenED week 8: Sustainability (exploration)
An interesting and familiar subject last week. Because of computer problems I have not been able to post earlier, but this enabled me to read to some of the other postings. This post will not reflect much on these posts, but elaborate in detail on sustainability, in specific in relation to the Delft OCW. Week 8 of the Intro to Open Education course was about David Wiley not being able to comment...
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Interview Wim Veen: Future of Delft OCW
Last week I had an interview with Professor Wim Veen. He is the author of the well recieved (read the review by Jay Cross on Amazon.com) book “Homo Zappiens, Growing Up in a Digital Age” about the positive aspects of short attention span fever, disdain for school, and independence, showing an optimistic take on kids and technology today. Professor Veen is a member of the Delft OCW...
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Delft OCW Live!
This week we went live with the Delft University of Technnology Open Courseware project. It is a great initiative similar to MIT OCW. My thesis aims to propose a design of this project that will sustain in our rapidly changing learning landscape. A difficult, but very interesting task. clipped from ocw.tudelft.nl Challenge the future “TU Delft is dedicated to finding sustainable solutions...
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OpenED Week 7: Copyright issues (cont'd)
This week continues the interesting topic of copyright, copyleft, and the public domain. The following resources have been digested this week; Creative Commons (Watch the top 4 videos) GNU Free Documentation License (FSF, 6 pages) Free content tutorial (Various, 12 pages) WikiEducator: Memoirs, myths, misrepresentations and the magic...
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Why people will soon be marrying and having sex -...
The digitization of humanity… clipped from www.mailonsunday.co.uk David Levy, originally from London, has made the controversial forecasts about the future of human-robot relationships in his Ph.D thesis. In “Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners”, he argues that current trends in robotics and artificial intelligence mean the leap to humans and robots forming...
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OpenEd week 6 - Copyright
This week, and the next, will be centered around copyright issues. Initially I regarded this as something not so interesting, but after reading some background material (including a comic book, Bound by Law), and grasping the valid concerns stated by the authors, my interest had grown like a lotus in the mud. It is a truly interesting and dynamic domain, and the decisions made nowadays will...
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OpenED: An overview of initiatives
Week 5: Example Open Education Programs This week I will discuss the following Open Education Programs Open University (UK) Open Content Initiative Rice Connexions Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative UNESCO Open Training Platform MIT OCW National Repository of Online CoursesI will describe similarities and differences between them. I also elaborate on the idea of “quality” of the...
