Taking Online Learning Offline: Now That’s High-Tech!

There’s a really interesting company here in Utah valley called Agilix that’s doing some intriguing work in support of the developing world. From today’s press release: Agilix Labs, Inc. announced the extension of learning solutions to unserved and underserved markets with the introduction of its GoCourse Schoolmate product, a self-contained client-server learning system that supports … Read more

More FWK in the Media

Everyone involved with a university understands the problems with the textbook industry, but it’s encouraging to see mainstream media continue to cover Flat World Knowledge’s approach to solving these problems in a sustainable manner. Online ‘open textbooks’ save students cash in the USA Today Coming This Fall: Free Textbooks in Time FWK is an example … Read more

OpenEd 2008 Submission Deadline Extended til 7/4/2008

For those of you that contacted us about problems submitting by the June 30 deadline, we’ve extended the submission deadline until Friday, July 4th at midnight Mountain Daylight Time. Even if you emailed in an abstract and extended abstract, we still need you to submit your proposal via the website. We’ve re-enabled proposal submission; you’ll … Read more