Due to poor planning (ask me later) I’ve received a “new faculty grant” to start a free access, online, peer-reviewed, instructional technology “journal.” Of course, my inclination is to lean it toward learning objects / reusable media / online communities / blogs / open content / etc. for the topic or niche. But the point of the grant is to explore new publishing models, and there are a whole bunch of other exploratory things that could be done. (This of course all ties back into the recent lamenting about the sorry state of academic discourse in inst tech blog circles…)
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Monthly Archive for May, 2003
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I finally got the audio back from the interview I did two weeks ago with Utah Public Radio about the future of copyright and the OpenContent project / Open Publication License. The “mp3″:http://opencontent.org/blog/pres/oc_discuss.mp3 is available on my website and is just under 20M in size. The format is 30 minutes conversation / phone-in, if anyone cares.
So I recently got back logo ideas, etc., from an absolutely gifted designer who’s working on EduCommons with my OSLO research team at USU. After a few weeks bouncing around ideas for a tagline we arrived at Share – Discuss – Learn – Create. Then today I see the Open Education logo on the “presentation”:http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/OE_presentation.htm George and Stephen made today, with “create.share” as the tagline… Geesh! I guess like minds think alike. Hope the similarity won’t cause bad blood.
