We have an Assistant / Associate Professor opening in Instructional Technology at Utah State University. The full announcement is here: “http://personnel.usu.edu/W2-123-03.htm":http://personnel.usu.edu/W2-123-03.htm. Come work on learning objects, online communities, and other fun stuff in a great environment with a new research lab, great doctoral students, and lots of research opportunities.
Out on my weekly date night with my wife tonight, Elaine reminded me of the only other “true love” I’ve know in my whole life – a “Steinway and Sons Concert Grand”:http://steinway.com/steinway/catalogue/models/001.html. ...
Here’s the paper I’ll be presenting at the “Learning Objects Symposium”:http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/symposium2003.htm at this year’s EdMedia: Using O2 to Overcome Learning Objects Limitations. It explains what I feel are some of the weaknesses with the ways people have traditionally thought about LOs (this will sound familiar if you know my work), and describes a project we have under way to develop and deliver an online, project-based, learning objects-based MBA in Enterprise Informatics.
Unsurprisingly, before the license language has even been announced folks have begun arguing that the Creative Commons Education (cc.edu) license is a bad thing. Below I present an extended argument explaining why cc.edu is a great thing for the “open education” movement and similar efforts. The draft language should be appearing on the Creative Commons site: http://creativecommons.org/ later today. ...
Today we finalized the draft language for the Creative Commons Education license. Props to Kevin Rothman of Cooley Godward LLP for a great review of the legal literature and expressing some great ideas in legalese. The language should be available for comment Monday; please join the cc-education mailing list to participate in the draft review and make sure that the license will meet your needs.
A few Friday afternoon thoughts about pheromones, information foraging, and the success of online communities brought on by reading a doctoral student’s proposal draft… ...
I’ve updated my “Beginner’s Guide to Blogs in Inst Tech”:http://opencontent.org/docs/begin_blog.html for a presentation Trey and I are doing in about 5 minutes here at PIDT. For what it’s worth.
So here I am blogging during a session at PIDT in the absolutely fabulous YMCA of the Rockies in Estes Park, CO. I love attending these meetings because I keep either meeting or reconnecting with fabulous people. Today’s examples: “Trey Martindale”:http://www.soe.ecu.edu/ltdi/martindale/default.htm, who has a wicked three point shot, and perhaps my favorite colleague on the planet, “Janette Hill”:http://it.coe.uga.edu/~janette/. While leading a session titled something like “Where is the learning?” earlier this morning, it became clear that many of the people here don’t know what blogs or wikis are. So now tomorrow I’m doing an ad hoc intro to the topics, and will be updating my getting started guide accordingly…
There’s a great introduction to the DMCA and TEACH Act over at the “LIBRES Journal”:http://libres.curtin.edu.au/libres13n1/index.htm Thanks to Henk at “In Between”:http://eepi.ubib.eur.nl/iliit/archives/2003_05.html#000143 for the link. Utah State University has just formed a committee to put policy in place ensuring our compliance with the TEACH Act. A committee I’m actually excited to be on!
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”:http://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 cares.