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The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes

March 12, 2004 by opencontent

Found this fabulous analysis of group size as it relates to group cohesion, satisfaction, etc. via Seb’s weblog. Very nice. I’m interested in how this may change online, or not, and what the role of weak ties is here…

OpenCourse.org, and an OLS update

March 10, 2004 by opencontent

Here’s another SourceForge for educational materials project — http://opencourse.org/. They’ve beaten us to the punch and actually opened their doors to three projects! Congratulations to the OpenCourse team, who are funded by NSF/NSDL monies. Our EduCommons project (funded by the Hewlett Foundation) won’t be ready for several months yet. It’s good to see good ideas … Read more

cc.edu voting

February 12, 2004 by opencontent

We’re currently voting on what should go into the draft license which will be launched as the public beta. We’d love your feedback – please leave comments with clear yeas or neas to the proposed license options below by 10:00 MST Friday.