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First USU OCW Courses Available

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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…

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Code as Ideology

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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.

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Chronicle Story on OpenCourseWare

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A story in this week’s Chronicle of Higher Education (paid registration required, ironically enough) discusses the growing momentum behind the OpenCourseWare movement, and the meeting at MIT two weeks ago. As described in the article, at this meeting several universities at varying levels of progress into their OCWs met to talk about best practices, building … Read more