It takes two consecutive 11.5 hour flights to travel from Cape Town to San Franciso, and another 3 hours by bus to Monterey for the Hewlett Grantees Meeting. It’s well worth it however, since 4 out of the 5 original Peer 2 Peer University team will be here, and I can’t wait to see you! […]
The 7 things meme hit me (courtesy of Steve Song) – how silly, isn’t it? At least that’s what I thought, and then found myself thinking more, typing, re-reading, re-typing, removing, adding – turns out, it’s a lot of fun to write about things that people might or might not know about you, and that […]
Gently nudged by Steve Song, I am re-reading John Seely Brown‘s “The Social Life of Information (google books)”. Below are a few excerpts that are very relevant in the context of the www.peer2peeruniversity.org. If you replace “videos” with OER, this sounds very similar to the kind of learning communities P2PU is trying to create. Especially […]
View from the UN Building on the Rhein in Bonn. The UNU is trying to clarify its vision and strategy for the use of technology in learning – during a two day workshop.
Mark Surman is speaking to the City of Toronto about how openness can help create a better city — much in the same way that it helped create a better Internet. In his truly open ways, he has been blogging about it, and has posted his speaker notes and draft slides online for comment. Most […]
Pratham Books/ Read India is one of those inspiring projects that India seems able to generate more easily than many other transition economies: cool business sense and entrepreneurship hit a social cause. Gautam John and his colleagues have managed to squeeze the publication costs of educational books to an absolute minimum, producing lots and lots […]
My friend Rishab Ghosh occasionally invites me to moonlight with the Collaborative Creativity Group at the United Nations University MERIT. Most recently I participated in designing the Wikipedia survey, which is coming to an end as I post this. Nobody likes to fill out online surveys, but Wikipedia gets an incredible 65,000 hits per second, […]
Andrew writes about legal wranglings over telecommunication services in South Africa. For those who don’t know, some time ago this developing country decided that exorbitant pricing of bandwidth is a good strategy to support social and economic development. And our Minister of Communication is sticking to that strategy, by appealing the ruling that Value Added […]
Yesterday we celebrated the conclusion of the first phase of the Rip Mix Learners project here at UWC. It was moving to see the excitement and enthusiasm of all the students who had worked so hard during the past year. It was also a little sad, because Nondumiso Sinyenyeko-Sayo who has been running the project […]
I just saw a great presentation by Haishuo Lee who works at a technical University of Taiwan. He presented a model that I think holds a lot of promise for UWC and other Universities in Africa as well. The University created video lectures for three of its foundational courses (in this case Calculus I and […]
