I have decided to hold off posting about individual presentations at the Sakai Amsterdam conference until the podcasts of those presentations are available. In the meantime, I thought it might be helpful to provide my general impressions of the state of the Sakai community. It’s always difficult to get a sense of the likely evolution […]
Archive for June, 2007
Sakai Amsterdam 2007: The State of the Union
Published by June 19th, 2007 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!), Open Source, Open Content, Open Access, Notable Posts and LMOS. 5 CommentsTim Lee and EduPatents
Published by June 13th, 2007 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 2 CommentsCorrection: Thanks to Seb Schmoller for pointing out that the op ed piece is not, in fact, by Tim Berners Lee but by Timothy B. Lee. Very different guy. Nevertheless, the points made by…um…the other Tim Lee are no less valid than they would have been coming from The Man Himself.
There’s a great op ed […]
Sakai Resources Tool Meeting
Published by June 12th, 2007 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and LMOS. 1 CommentI arrived in Amsterdam before the main conference started and had the pleasure of sitting in on a bit of the Resources tool working group. (I didn’t last too long, having flown in that morning on the redeye from Philadelphia.) At any rate, there were a couple of pieces of good discussion that managed to […]
Going to the Sakai Amsterdam Conference
Published by June 7th, 2007 in About This Site and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 0 CommentsI’ll be in Amsterdam next week for the Sakai conference. I’m not generally very good at the live blogging thing, since I like to focus on listening rather than writing. (I’m not a very good note taker for the same reason.) But I will make an effort to live-blog where I can and do after-the-fact […]
Making College Textbooks More Affordable: Part II
Published by June 5th, 2007 in Higher Education, Open Source, Open Content, Open Access, Notable Posts and Guest Bloggers. 1 CommentThis is a guest post blog by Jim Farmer, Coordinator, Scholarly Systems Group at Georgetown University and editor at the eReSS project, University of Hull.
On Friday, June 1st, the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance released their report “Turn the Page: Making College Textbooks More Affordable.” Responding to a Congressional concern about high and rapidly […]
