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Open Courseware lacks Canadian participation - 14 Jan 2008
Today’s article by Dr. Geist in the Toronto Star discusses the lack of participation of Canadian Universities in the Open Courseware initiative. Originally started by MIT – which, as Dr. Geist points out, offers about 1800 courses freely – has spawned into the Open Courseware Consortium featuring universities from China, USA, South Africa, [...]
Read Full Post »The events at VT got me thinking. - 18 Apr 2007
Originally, I was going to write a piece on intellectual property in my university but during a chat over coffee with my good friend Dennis Rice I have something else one my mind.
With the tragic events that have unfolded this week at Virginia Tech a lot of schools will be looking at their emergency readiness [...]
Information should be free. - 19 Mar 2007
Some of the worlds leading universities have discovered that information should be free, or at lest freely available. As such they are offering the lectures from their Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics, and other departments.
The site Lecture Fox.com catalogs a significant amount of material from schools such as UC Berkeley, MIT, Carnegie [...]
Jobs thinks the unions and books have to go - 18 Feb 2007
Steve Jobs – the fearless leader of Apple Inc. – has announced that he feels “unionization and lifetime employment of K-12 teachers is off-the-charts crazy,” at a recent appearance with Dell Computer founder Michael Dell. Speaking about the importance of technology in the classroom Jobs referred to unionization as one of the problems [...]
Read Full Post »Privacy and why I can not say more! - 12 Nov 2006
Sorry for the lack of updates folks but I have been busy in recent months. Since the start of the term I have been asked to join a group here who are doing research in to privacy issues. In particular we are researching the relationship among technology, perceived privacy risks, and policy in [...]
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