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I love Northern California
Nature is so beautiful. This morning I walked to the top of Berekely’s Vollmer Peak and found fog flowing through the valleys all around me. From
Internet Time Blog on November 20, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..
Graham Wegner - A Terrible Decision - Teaching Generation Z
Some very upset reactions in South Australia this week as the government closes the
Technology School Of the Future. "There was an 'outcry' over plans to replace the school at Hindmarsh with online services and video conferencing." Graham Wegner writes, "The South Australian education community deserves better than this. More resources should be going into this important facility - instead, we feel the bitter sting of the axe carefully spun into a press release strategically timed to coincide with the end of a busy, frantic and tiring work year." From
OLDaily on November 20, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..
Timothy K. Hamilton - Commercial Use of a Photo of Mine by CNET News - Flickr
There has been discussion recently on whether open educational resources should use a non-commercial license - at an online
OECD-UNICEF discussion someone raised the issue, insisting people not use the 'non-commercial' clause, before the discussion even started. talk about coming into a conference with an agenda! I think some companies just want to get stuff for free, which they will then sell to people who can't afford them. But anyhow - the main argument they use is that From
OLDaily on November 20, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..
Scott Jaschik - What Ever Happened to the Faculty? - Inside Higher Ed
What are the long-term implications of this? "Traditional governance models are being replaced with strict hierarchies, and too many faculty members have too little influence in crucial decisions." I still don't understand: if we think democracy is the best form of government, why do we have so little of it in our companies and institutions? [
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Brock Read - A Business Book, Wiki-Style - Chronicle of Higher Education
From the Chronicle: "Can a wiki-style editing process result in a worthwhile business book? Pearson PLC, the publishing firm, intends to find out - and it has recruited business-school officials at the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to help with the experiment. The publisher is putting together We Are Smarter Than Me, a new book that tries to help businessmen make sense of blogs, online communities, and other interactive Web media. Professors at Penn and MIT have already written the volume's chapter titles and introductory anecdotes. But otherwise From
OLDaily on November 20, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..