METADATA RECORD
Name: John Arnim ?? Wiley
Release Date: June 22, 2005 @ 1:00pm MDT
Size: 19.5 inches x 6 lbs 15 ounces
Monthly Archive for June, 2005
With our fourth child about to be born (literally any day now), yesterday I received word from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation that our most recent grant proposal has been formally approved. This will provide us with 18 months time more in which to evangelize open education, support universities as they start OpenCourseWare initiatives with our eduCommons software, training, and evangelsim support, make publishing open educational resources easier by integrating and improving our OLS and eduCommons tools, and migrate USU OCW from our research center into the university’s Faculty Assistance Center for Teaching.
Mike, Cathy, and Pheonix from the Foundation are really people of vision, and it is constantly amazing to me that there are Foundations with the means, and people with the vision, that are willing to support work of this type. I’m extremely grateful for their support, and I hope my team and I can live up to the trust this funding represents.
So, getting the formal CFP together has taken some time, but here is the official CFP for the TICL issue on Learning Objects and Pedagogy that Marie Duncan and I will be editing. Please submit something!
I don’t know when I’ve laughed so hard recently. Today I received a check in the mail from ProQuest for $16.11 US. Upon inspection, this check represents my royalties on copies of my dissertation that ProQuest sold during 2004. Apparently, they sold 24 copies of my dissertation, making a cool $700 in the process (22 downloads and 2 paper copies), and I get $16 bucks.
Don’t people know they can download my dissertation for free??? It’s the #2 return on a Google search for wiley and dissertation. And who would pay $40 bucks for my dissertation? Well, it certainly cheered up my Tuesday afternoon at any rate… If I save up my money, and they sell 25 more this year, I might even be able to afford to buy my own copy of it!
It’s that time of year again! Last year’s Open Education Conference at USU was described by several as “the best conference I ever attended.” This year’s conference should be even better. Keynotes this year include John Seely Brown (Social Life of Information) and Yochai Benkler (Coase’s Penguin).
The Call for Papers is available now. Please submit something! General information on the conference, including a Flyer and Presentation Slide you can use to help us advertise, is available at http://cosl.usu.edu/conference/.
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