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opencontent As Jane reports on the Creative Commons blog, California’s OER pilot program has been signed into law: Last week, a bill enabling the California Community Colleges to integrate open educational resources (OER) into its core curriculum was signed into law by Governor Schwarzenegger. AB 2261 authorizes the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges … Read more
A question Shawn asked in writing about social objects last week made me wonder… What if Facebook worked like Blackboard (or pretty much any other LMS)? Imagine if every fifteen weeks Facebook: shut down all the groups you belonged to, deleted all your forum posts, removed all the photos, videos, and other files you had … Read more
You know those “deleted scenes” offered on DVDs? Well, I’ve pulled together a collection of deleted scenes for my chapter 2005 – 2012: The OpenCourseWars in the new book Opening Up Education from MIT Press. Apparently I wrote more material for the chapter than they needed. In the words of Billy Joel’s The Entertainer: Ah, … Read more