[This post appeared originally on the collaborative blog hist.net.] The American Historical Association has created an Archives Wiki that allows historians to collect and share information about archives around the world in a wiki format. The Archives Wiki project is built on the MediaWiki platform and aims to leverage the collective knowledge and experience of…
Tag: Academic Commons
AHA Talks January 2008
I recorded two of my talks at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Washington, D.C., January 2008. The first one is the presentation I gave at the pre-conference workshop on the intersection of teaching, research, and new media. The second one was a presentation about the 1989 project that we are working…
Open Up!
The twentieth episode of Digital Campus is now up and ready for you to download. In this episode, Tom, Dan, and I discuss what the open access movement means for higher education. We also have a few critical things to say about BigThink.com, some positive things to say about PublicDomanReprints.org, and decide that as much…
Can Higher Education Be Open Source? (4)
My earlier posts on open source higher education have generated a lot of discussion and I want to say thanks to all who have chimed in thus far. One of the contributors to this discussion, Greg Byshenk, questioned my use of the term “open source” and so I thought I ought to clarify exactly what…