Flat World Publishers are putting out textbooks for free on the web, and making money. Oh, and students actually like it.
Sound stupid? Sounds like the future to me. Textbook publishing is a racket. Publishers extort billions from students bi-annually (or more often) by selling them required texts for their classes. Flat World comes in with [...]
A new program in Emerging Media and Communication at UT Dallas looks very interesting.
The Emerging Media and Communication degree prepares the “communicators of the twenty-first century.” These new communicators will combine technological expertise with effective communication skills across a wide range of media, developing “new media literacy” in response to the digital revolution that has [...]
Imagine you have a house party and you invite 25 people you’re friendly with. They don’t all know each other, but there’s a good cross over. Interesting connections are being made and lively chat is spontaneously popping up all over the house.
Then something strange happens. Someone you met fairly recently, who seemed pretty cool, throws [...]
Big news! The other day my good friend Howard Rheingold flipped the switch and the public web site for our project, the Social Media Classroom went live to the world!
The free (open source, no cost) software is combination of social media tools for use in education. It is designed to install right on top of [...]
Just stumbled upon this impromptu interview of John Seely Brown by Ulrike Reinhard (via Valeria Maltoni). It’s about 7 minutes of trademark Seely Brown brilliance. Enjoy.
Have a look at PBS Frontline’s “Growing Up Online.”
John Seely Brown is a pioneer in the realm of the computing, working as Chief Scientist for many years at Xerox PARC, which was the incubator of many of the most common place technologies we use today. JSB is also passionate about education and collaboration.
Recently, he co-wrote an article for EduCause, entitled Minds on [...]
I must admit, I almost didn’t make it through John Rothfork’s Review of Hubert Dreyfus’s On the Internet.
Hi 619ers,
I mentioned that my posts that are intended for 619 wouldn’t be showing up on my site’s main RSS/Atom webfeed and that I would make seperate feed for just these posts. Unfortunately, I have not been able to bend WordPress (and its realted plug-ins) to my will, so here’s how to follow the blog [...]
Howard has posted his first update on the Social Media Classroom project. Another nice overview of all the hard work we’re putting in.
More coming soon!
(In case you missed it, here was my latest update)