Due to poor planning (ask me later) I’ve received a “new faculty grant” to start a free access, online, peer-reviewed, instructional technology “journal.” Of course, my inclination is to lean it toward learning objects / reusable media / online communities / blogs / open content / etc. for the topic or niche. But the point of the grant is to explore new publishing models, and there are a whole bunch of other exploratory things that could be done. (This of course all ties back into the recent lamenting about the sorry state of academic discourse in inst tech blog circles…)
Interview re: Open Content
I finally got the audio back from the interview I did two weeks ago with Utah Public Radio about the future of copyright and the OpenContent project / Open Publication License. The “mp3”:https://opencontent.org/pres/oc_discuss.mp3 is available on my website and is just under 20M in size. The format is 30 minutes conversation / phone-in, if anyone … Read more
AERA EduBloggers Dinner
Calling all EduBloggers… AERA is the biggest meeting of Ed Researchers on the planet (like 15,000 or something). Many of you will be in Chicago next week. Let’s get together and have dinner or drinks or something! If you’ll be in Chicago, post a comment describing when you’d be free to meet. I could make … Read more