“Community becomes increasingly important as one realizes that open education (if not most education ) uses content but involves community.” That said, there is not a one-to-one relation between courses and community. …
An education student at Stanford was questioned because of the opinions expressed in her blog. The Washingrton Post’s Jay Matthews wrote, They messed with the wrong blogger. “They appeared to have decided her anti-progressive views were …
Are Brains Computers ? Graham Glass offers a very nice plainly stated description of what brains are and how they operate
A set of excerpts and links to reports dealing with the use of web 2.0 technologies in education . The author notes “The informal learning based on Web 2.0 exists and functions like a ‘university in shadow’ with possibilities of a …
Mashable rarely turns its attention to education , but I like it when it does. Author Josh Catone writes, “social media can drastically reduce much of the overhead involved with higher education – such as administrative costs and even …
As to the terms for “open education ” or “free and open education ” or “libre education ” I use the phrase ‘free learning’. I mean the word ‘free’ in both senses: gratis and libre