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22 Jan 09

TPMCafe | Two (Radical?) Thoughts on Infrastructure - Yochai Benkler

We need investment in information infrastructure, and that, in the near term that is relevant for a recovery package, means massive public investment in Fiber To The Home (FTTH) and creating a fundamentally new system for adult education and its conversion into greater local involvement in education programs at local public schools.

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  • We need investment in information infrastructure, and that, in the near term that is relevant for a recovery package, means massive public investment in Fiber To The Home (FTTH) and creating a fundamentally new system for adult education and its conversion into greater local involvement in education programs at local public schools.
  • communications infrastructure and broadband. Up to this point, however, this has meant some forms of subsidy or tax relief to current firms in the broadband business
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29 Dec 08

Jason Skier's Internet Law Term Paper: The End of Fair Use?

  • H.R. Rep. No. 94-1476, 94th Cong.,
    2d Sess., p. 66 (1976).

EBSCOhost: Open Education

The speech "Open Education" is presented, delivered by Commonwealth of Learning chief executive John Daniel to the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Grantees Meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on March 12, 2008, discussing open education, multicultural education, and educational technology.

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Engines of Inquiry: Teaching, Technology, and Learner-Centered Approaches to Culture and History | EDUCAUSE CONNECT

As Leo Marx pointed out a long time ago, rhetoric of the "technological sublime" is an American tradition, and though it first emerged in response to the inventions of the Industrial Revolution—the steam engine, the telegraph, the railroad—the idea of the technological sublime is still with us in this so-called Information Age. With their emphasis on solutions and efficiency, popular images of information technology have contributed to a misleading mythology—a new rhetoric of the technological sublime—about technology's impact on culture and especially education.

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24 Dec 08

Giving It Away - Forbes.com DOCTOROW





  • I've been giving away my books ever since my first novel came out, and boy has it ever made me a bunch of money.

23 Dec 08

Outsourcing the Textbook - Class Is in Session - TIME

  • According to the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, U.S. textbook prices rose 186% between 1986 and 2004, or twice the rate of inflation.

President-elect Obama announces key members of Science and Technology team | Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team

  • Dr. Eric Lander, Co-Chair, President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST); and Dr. Harold Varmus, Co-Chair, President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).

Open source textbooks challenge a paradigm (WIRED)

A small, digital book startup thinks it has a solution to the age-old student lament: overpriced textbooks that have little value when the course is over. The answer? Make them

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  • “The nice thing about open content is it gives faculty full control, creative control over the content of the book, full control over timing, and it give students a lot more control over how they want to consume it and how much they want to pay,” says Eric Frank, who along with co-founder Jeff Shelstad, came from a long career in the
    mainstream textbook industry.
  • Official launch is not until next January, when the company plans to offer eight textbooks, each written for Flat World by scholars who have also produced texts for some of the major publishing companies. It will test its business model over the next semester in a private beta with
    more than 20 U.S. universities.
22 Dec 08

Google Wants Its Own Fast Track on the Web - WSJ.com

  • The developments could test Mr. Obama's professed commitment to network neutrality. "The Internet is perhaps the most open network in history, and we have to keep it that way," he told Google employees a year ago at the company's Mountain View, Calif., campus. "I will take a back seat to no one in my commitment to network neutrality."
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