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Johns Hopkins School of Public Health OCW

March 12, 2005 by opencontent

If you haven’t seen it yet, check out Johns Hopkins School of Public Health OpenCourseWare. This in addition to OpenCourseWare-esque projects at Utah State University, MIT, Rice, Carnegie Mellon, and Foothill De-Anza.

First USU OCW Courses Available

March 5, 2005March 4, 2005 by opencontent

We haven’t officially launched the site yet, but the first eight courses in USU OpenCourseWare are now available. The official announcement will come after we clean a few non-course related things up (like the design of the front page). But I thought folks would like to know as soon as these courses became available…

Code as Ideology

March 4, 2005March 4, 2005 by opencontent

So Bekir Gur and I are working on this paper which applies Habermas’ critique of technology to copyright law and Lessig’s notion of “code as law.” I was going to send it to a friend to review, and then realized I should give it to the blogosphere to review! So, if you have trouble sleeping some night soon, take a look.