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…
Tag: Student Work
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…
At the AHA (Friday afternoon)
My Friday afternoon session at the AHA annual meeting was much more productive, largely because it was more focused on things Russian and East European. That meant the audience was there to learn about content resources rather than about “tech tools” as in my morning session. Steve Barnes presented his Gulag project, which is now close to done. There was a…
At the AHA (Thursday afternoon, part 2)
The final full session of the pre-conference workshop at the AHA annual meeting, three presenters showed us work in progress. Jan Reiff asked whether we have moved beyond Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 (transforming all of the web into a database, the Semantic Web, etc.)? (Not in the history business, I’d say–but a few of…