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Ahrash Bissell (6)
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member since:   19/6/2007
birth date:   13/9/1972
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Website:   learn.creativecommons.org
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  articles · Open Educational Resources leaders write for educators
by Judy Breck: goldenswamp.com · voted on 8/2/2008 06:38 · 32 votes · no comments

The following is my introductory article to a special issue of Educational Technology magazine on the theme of “Opening Educational Resources” (OER) published last fall. On 1 February 2008 the publisher placed a PDF of this special issue here, where you can download it.

As you will see on the page where the PDF can be downloaded, the magazine is a pillar of the pre-Commons publication...

articles · Scholars, Looters and Stewardship of the Past
by Sarah Kansa · voted on 26/1/2008 03:39 · 52 votes · 2 comments

At a brunch gathering I attended recently, a guest casually mentioned that they were reading a book about Heinrich Schliemann, the German excavator at Troy, who removed archaeological treasures from Turkey in the late 19th century. There were nods and chuckles as people recalled the (probably fictitious) story of Schliemann “saving” what he named “Priam’s Treasure” by whisking the...

   
 
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  articles · What is public?
by Prashant · commented on 6/11/2007 14:22 · 46 votes · 4 comments

What is the public domain? What is private? And do these questions have any bearing on the growing information commons that we on this site are trying, in our own various ways to promote?

Consistent with the style of my previous articles, I would like to embark on a heuristic examination of these questions – by supplying illustrations of the manner in which “public” has been...

articles · Planning for the 2008 Education Track in Sapporo
by Steve Foerster · commented on 10/7/2007 05:21 · 17 votes · 7 comments

In the final session of the first annual Education track, we've come up with a set of priorities that we want to have as what we humbly believe was one of the seminal gatherings in the nascent history of the open education movement.

We clearly came away from our track believing that we are a vibrant and dynamic movement which is ready to continue its expansion. In fact, we already...

   
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