At the Open Courseware Consortium (OCWC) meeting in Dalian (China) the OCWC elected its first Board of Directors, concluded the ratification process for the by-laws by the membership, and announced its registration as a non-profit organisation in the State of Massachusetts. It’s no coincidence, that Massachusetts was chosen, since the MIT has been generous host, […]
Fiona King sent me an email about launching a list of “100 Resources for Teaching Without Textbooks“. Enabling teachers to teach without textbooks has an ironic twist in South Africa, where many teachers don’t have the choice – and are already teaching without textbooks. Unfortunately, they also lack Internet access, so these resources won’t improve […]
Today Mark Surman and friends are starting up the first or a series of Open Everything roadshow events in Toronto. He calls it a conversation about the art, science and spirit of “open”. If you are “violently intrigued” and live in Cape Town – then please get in touch. We will be organising the Cape […]
I was invited to a WIPO workshop at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) tomorrow and decided to spend a few minutes of this mother day compiling my notes and references. Judging from the titles of the sessions, the workshop will provide some background on patents and innovation (not the same thing of course), […]
Rumours had been making the rounds since Sunday evening, but now it’s confirmed that a fundamentally flawed standardisation process has — not surprisingly — resulted in a fundamentally flawed new ISO standard for open documents ISO 29500. Faced with all of the lobbying might of a powerful international corporation, many standard bodies in smaller countries […]
Andreas Meiszner gave an interesting presentation at the 4th International Conference on Higher Education, where he highlighted the power of open source processes for education, and how that could pose a threat to the way universities are organising teaching and learning today. He ended with a great quote: “In the future, universities will no be […]
This must be one of the greatest places to work in the field of open education in the world. The Center for Open and Sustainable Learning COSL at Utah State University has a faculty opening for Academics working in the field of technology and learning. I have met Steve and his colleagues at numerous occasions […]
The Cape Town Open Education Declaration is launched – “Teachers, Students, Web Gurus, and Foundations Launch Campaign to Transform Education, Call for Free, Adaptable Learning Materials Online” Champagne and Appletizer all around! We soft-launched a few weeks ago and there have been a number of interesting and useful responses and comments, some critical, many positive […]
The preview Cape Town Open Education Declaration is live. The document is the result of a 2 day workshop in Cape Town that 27 people spent brainstorming, strategising, discussing, agreeing and disagreeing – and then many more weeks of the same by email. It was drafted by members of the community, for the community – […]
Joi just blogged about the conversation about altruism we had a few weeks ago (it was more an interview with him, than a conversation) and the audio files are available for download from the icommons site. I had not thought of “sharing” in the way he described it as part of a broader philosophy of […]
