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OCW Finder Publicity and Update

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Due to some recent publicity at digg.com and elsewhere, there have been lots of people coming to the OCW Finder (30,000 some yesterday alone). I’ve updated the listings and included tags for video and audio, making it easier for folks to find those sorts of courses.

On Wikipedia – Updated

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I hesitate to even link to articles like Errol Louis’ rant against Wikipedia because I hate to drive any more traffic to them – they’re already getting far more than they deserve. You can almost hear the popular press breathing a collective sigh of relief. It’s as if they’ve been hoping and praying for something … Read more

Ira Fuchs at the Sakai Conference

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Ira Fuchs made the closing keynote at Sakai today and gave a great list of open source software that he saw as potentially revolutionizing higher education. I list those (with a few others we talked about at dinner last) here: Sakai, Kuali, Open Source Portfolio Initiative, eduCommons, Asterisk, Zimbra, OJAX. Ira’s talk set out a … Read more