The third podcast from the staff at the Center for History and New Media has launched. THAT Podcast (The Humanities and Technology Podcast) joins Digital Campus and History Conversations in the growing group of CHNM podcasts. In their inaugural edition, THAT Podcast creators Jeremy Boggs and Dave Lester interview Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress…
Tag: Academic Commons
Can Higher Education Be Open Source? (3)
If I’d known about the Cape Town Open Education Declaration, I might have waited until today to write my first post on open source higher education. Released officially today, the Declaration is a call for openness along the lines I wrote about last week. Reading the Declaration this morning, I was particularly struck by the…
Can Higher Education Be Open Source? (2)
Yesterday I speculated that the open source model in the software world is going to undermine the basic delivery system for higher education in the United States (and perhaps elsewhere). Today I want to consider what, exactly, a transformed system of education might look like. What is the purpose of the college degree? It seems…
Can Higher Education Be Open Source?
This week Sun Microsystems announced the purchase of the Swedish firm MySQL for the paltry sum of $1 billion, bringing together one of America’s biggest open source software companies with the firm that makes the software that drives so much of what happens online (including WordPress, the software running this blog). Why should people in…