A Cry for Help!

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Everyone, I’m currently working on a literature review of “everything related to learning objects.” The normal sources (Eric, Education Fulltext, Digital Dissertations, etc.) have turned up around 250 articles, but these sources list nothing from many of you. The databases tend to be largely constrained – rather unfortunately – to peer-reviewed works. Having been through … Read more

2006 Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration

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Here’s a great idea: reward people for the great work they’re doing on open source projects. From http://rit.mellon.org/awards/: The Program in Research in Information Technology of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation invites nominations for the 2006 Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration (MATC). In support of the Program’s mission to encourage collaborative, open source software development … Read more

Come to the Open Education Conference!

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Many of you have come before, and it’s back again! The USU Open Education Conference is coming up September 27-29, 2006 here in Logan, Utah. The Call for Papers is still open – http://cosl.usu.edu/conferences/opened2006/ – come talk about the cool things you’re doing related to Open Education!