Anyone living in the United States who doesn’t know that tomorrow is “Super Tuesday” — the day when voters in more than 20 states will go to the polls to cast their votes for presidential candidates in their parties — has either been in a coma or is truly able to avoid all contact with…
Tag: History of Digital Media
When Google Gets it Wrong
One of my colleagues, Mark Stoneman, recently wrote an interesting post in his blog Clio and Me on what happens when Google gets it wrong–or, more correctly, when Google users don’t think carefully about the results they get from their search query. The example that Mark cites is depressingly familiar. Someone with a historical question…
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…
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…