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February 2010
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Open Textbooks Questions – Part Deux
Sincere thanks to everyone who took the time last week to offer up their ideas on their favourite Open Textbook example. You can see all the submissions to the Google form so far. In conversation with some esteemed peers this week, though, it became clear that there are multiple ways to approach this issue, not [...]
Open Textbooks followup – Where to find good ones?
The feedback on “favourite Open Textbooks” was hugely valueable, but I felt a bit sheepish, like I shouted out for feedback before doing enough due dilligence myself. Because when I did some digging of my own, I found an enormous amount of helpful material already being produced by people focused in specifically on Open Textbooks
Feedback on Possible BC WordPress in Education Summer Camp
Last February, in the run up to Northern Voice, a bunch of us in BC post-secondary got together on the UBC campus to meet and discuss the various ways in which we were starting to use WordPress (and WPMU) on our campuses. I had some high (unrealistic) ambitions for the meeting, and while I felt [...]
There's a war goin' on here, donchaknow?
I hate to use war metaphors, not only because they refer to a practice I abhor but because they are so trite. But I am getting tired of people blindly accepting the official line of copyright and intellectual “property” as some sort of eternal right, rather than the modern (and increasingly faltering) invention it is. [...]
What's your favourite Open Textbook example?
http://u.nu/7awv4 2010 promises to be the year of the Open Textbook here in BC as we turn our attention to helping existing open textbooks get adopted by institutions in our province, help our system partners get involved in existing projects and potentially start new ones. As part of this, I am really interested in hearing [...]
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