pragmatism over zeal
Begins: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 at 9:00 AM
Ends: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 at 1:00 PM
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Tags: mellon, open education
Begins: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 at 7:00 PM
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Tags: hewlett, open education
A few months ago I blogged about a project idea called Send2Wiki, that would let you (via a bookmarklet) send any page you’re viewing in your browser directly into a wiki for instant editing / remixing. Today I’m happy to announce that the first alpha of Send2Wiki is available! You can play with it over at http://send2wiki.com/.
Send2Wiki includes preliminary support for license detection and preservation, automated translation (via Google Language Tools), PDF support, and chrome-stripping for specific sites (some OCWs and wikipedia at this point).
The service is still definitely in alpha, and all the data you put in while you play around is likely to get nuked at some point in the future, but I would love your feedback about the idea generally and about the implementation specifically. What features are missing that we definitely need? Have any logo ideas?
The goal of the project is to make it really, really easy for people to reuse and adapt open content. Does it do that?
Here’s a draft of a chapter I am writing for an upcoming book on open education. It’s (supposedly) written from some time decades in the future, and is part autobiography and part history. I’d love any feedback you have…
Continue reading ‘2005 - 2010: The OpenCourseWars’
I recently challenged students in one of my classes to build some educational materials primarily from existing, openly licensed materials. The results are in and the work is crazy / excellent / inspiring:
Enjoy these!
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