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 competing [...]
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 and [...]
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 [...]
Stephen Downes shares his thoughts on assessment. I very much agree
with much of what he says and think that this is an area where we will
see a lot of movement in the next few years.
http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2007/06/open-source-assessment.html
Some time ago, I proposed to the United Nations University to become a
global assessment and accreditation provider. While it would have [...]
In the past few months, I have participated in the open courseware consortium’s governance discussions. The consortium is a network of (mostly) universities who are committed to publishing and using open courseware, and who have so far released over 4200 university level courses under free and open licenses. Until now MIT has hosted and incubated [...]
Sorry, only in German ….
Sehr Geehrter Herr Lischka:
Ich habe mit grossem Interesse Ihren Kiva Artikel (http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,475307,00.html) gelesen, da ich seit 2002 in Suedafrika lebe und mich mit Fragen wirtschaftlicher, sozialer und technischer Entwicklung auseinadersetze. Ich finde das Model von Kiva attraktiv und war etwas ueberrascht von Ihrer sehr kritischen Beurteilung. Da Sie in Anbetracht der [...]
I went to a development project evaluation workshop. It was a bit like learning to speak a new language, except that the grammar and vocabulary seem to change constantly.
For example, some of the words that used to be ok to use, but are not anymore, are: “impact”, “causality”, “failure”. Also, the previous darling “empowerement” [...]
