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Category Archives: Digital Democracy
Four Initial Answers from Apple’s Education Announcement
In a recent post I offered four key questions for the Apple Education Announcement held today (Jan 19th). Now that the event is over and the blogosphere is responding, I thought it would be useful to answer those four questions. … Continue reading
DIY U: The Modern Guild at Work
I’m waiting for the video of Anya Kamenetz’s keynote to be available online before I kick off my post series on the Sakai conference. In the meantime, here’s a quick update on a previous (and Kamenetz-related) post. A while back, … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Democracy, Notable Posts, Openness Tagged Anya Kamenetz, Apprenticeship, DIY U, edunomics, Vocational education 2 Comments
Social Media, Social Activism, and Edupatents
Back when the Blackboard patent and lawsuit first surfaced in July of 2006, social software was still a pretty new thing. There was a fair bit of surprise in the community when the Wikipedia page on the History of the … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Democracy, Higher Education Tagged Blackboard-Inc., Desire2Learn, edupatents, Facebook, Million$Mission, Wikipedia Leave a comment
Thomson Suing Zotero: More Info and More Thoughts
Stephen Downes and Scott Leslie have both expressed concern that my original post regarding the Zotero lawsuit was possibly too charitable toward Thomson Reuters. Sadly, as more information comes in, it’s beginning to look like they were right.
An Eye-Witness Account of the Trial
With all the coverage of the Blackboard v. Desire2Learn case, most of us (including me) have very little insight into the actual trial process. And with emotions running high about the case, it’s easy for people to jump to extreme … Continue reading
