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Neeru (52)
Oakland, Cambridge, Fremont, United States

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member since:   17/6/2007
birth date:   30/11/1999
about:   I worked at at CC from when it first launched for the first three years until summer of 2005. I'm currently in a doctoral program at Harvard Business School studying identity and consumption with the goal of reducing environmentally and socially costly consumption behaviors. I'm currently working on AcaWiki, trying to get summaries of academic papers posted online

Aim/Yahoo/Msn/ICG/Gtalk:   AIM - npaharia
languages:   English
nodes:   Peer To Peer University
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  nodes · Peer To Peer University
31/7/2007 22:21 · 10 votes · no comments

Currently we are a group of iCommoners researching how to put this together. Our first goal is to assemble some currently available open resources and take a class together in the fall.

nodes · AcaWiki
31/7/2007 22:21 · 10 votes · no comments

Currently we are building a wiki and trying to collect summaries of academic articles.

   
 
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  articles · Library 2.0 and overdue books
by derek · voted on 1/9/2007 00:55 · 20 votes · no comments

The web was initially intended as a network of references, much like a library. The rules of measuring the effectiveness of network being the size of the overall network and connection between the nodes, one could say the web has grown exponentially. Is it possible to still think of the web as a library of information?

This library does not have prohibitive accessibility. In...

articles · Organisation Spotlight: WikiEducator
by Steve Foerster · voted on 2/8/2007 02:04 · 19 votes · no comments

Organisation Name: WikiEducator
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Web Address: http://wikieducator.org
Licenses Used: CC-BY-SA, CC-BY, public domain
Number of active initiatives: 27
Number of pages of content: 1,570
Number of page views: 791,929
Number of wiki edits: 61,524
Number of cups of coffee consumed: 4,326,711

(As of 16:02 on 26 July 2007 GMT)


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  articles · A study of the music industry in the Arab world
by Anas Tawileh, Arab Digital Commons · commented on 2/8/2007 02:10 · 38 votes · 3 comments

Producing and distributing creative content under Creative Commons is an amazing means to facilitate access to human culture and promote sharing and creative development by 'standing on the shoulders of giants.' The Creative Commons philosophy counters the increasingly powerful copyright regimes and legislation that is restricting access to intellectual and artistic content. It...

articles · The "Playlist" Model of Course Development
by Steve Foerster · commented on 26/7/2007 02:12 · 39 votes · 5 comments

Introduction

Much of the discussion surrounding the development of open educational resources has revolved around the development of open content, whether in the public domain or released under a permissive license such as the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.

An alternative approach, best suited for developing online courses, is the model of courses as "playlists"....

   
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