The EDUCAUSE webinar on edupatents today was very good. (The archived event is available.) James Hilton, University of Virginia’s CIO, did a great job of laying out the fundamental conflict between the academic endeavor and the United States’ obsession with ideas as property—an idea that has infused academia through technology transfer departments among many other […]
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I Want More
Published by May 30th, 2008 in Higher Education, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 0 CommentsWhat I Want from the EDUCAUSE Seminar on Edupatents
Published by May 28th, 2008 in Higher Education and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 0 CommentsSeb has a good post up raising some questions for the free EDUCAUSE webinar on edupatents tomorrow at 1 PM Eastern time. I’ll add a few of my own (which in some ways are just extensions of Seb’s):
What are the various edupatents being litigated in the United States today and what is the potential impact […]
Thoughts on “Analytics” and Privacy
Published by September 11th, 2007 in Higher Education, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and Notable Posts. 5 CommentsLast week at the IMS conference, the LTAC (Learning Technology Advisory Council) had an interesting and, I think, fruitful discussion about “analytics.” In this context, the term umbrella term covers various types of data analysis that would be useful in helping ensure that more students learn more and better. One example that came up a […]
Making College Textbooks More Affordable
Published by June 3rd, 2007 in Open Source, Open Content, Open Access, Notable Posts and Guest Bloggers. 2 CommentsThis is a guest blog post 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 […]
New Patent Information Center at EDUCAUSE
Published by May 24th, 2007 in Higher Education and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 0 CommentsKudos! Find it here.
In particular, be sure to check out this PowerPoint presentation about the costs of patents to universities.
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