But both are missing the point: the global demand for learning and scholarship is not being met by the contemporary publishing industry. It cannot be, not with the current business models and the prices. The users of library.nu - these barbarians at the gate of the publishing industry and the university - are legion.
The disappearing virtual library - Opinion - Al Jazeera English - 0 views
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They are a global market engaged in what we in the elite institutions of the world are otherwise telling them to do all the time: educate yourself; become scholars and thinkers; read and think for yourselves; bring civilisation, development and modernity to your people.
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Library.nu was making that learning possible where publishers have not
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Last week a website called "library.nu" disappeared. A coalition of international scholarly publishers accused the site of piracy and convinced a judge in Munich to shut it down. Library.nu (formerly Gigapedia) had offered, if the reports are to be believed, between 400,000 and a million digital books for free.
Neil Postman: Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change - 0 views
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Indeed.....that's the issue in education
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Getting ready for iPad deployment: ten things I'd wish I'd known about last y... - 0 views
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but unless you get buy in from your whole school community then you’re going to be up against it.
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it is about getting the infrastructure in place
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And this does not only mean things like wireless: it includes the intellectual, pedagogical infrastructure that brings with it an understanding of both the benefits and pitfalls of bringing these devices into the classroom
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This article describes the deployment of iPads, but many of the issues are similar to those considered when introducing ANY new technology.
flickrCC - art - 4 views
Compfight / A Flickr Search Tool - 3 views
movingforward - Education Blogs by Discipline - 3 views
Constructivism vs Connectivism | Barbara Bray - Rethinking Learning - 0 views
Let Kids Rule the School - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Their guidance counselor was their adviser, consulting with them when the group flagged in energy or encountered an obstacle. Though they sought advice from English, math and science teachers, they were responsible for monitoring one another’s work and giving one another feedback. There were no grades, but at the end of the semester, the students wrote evaluations of their classmates.
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The students also designed their own curriculum, deciding to split their September-to-January term into two halves.
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each of them focused on specific mathematical topics, from quadratic equations to the numbers behind poker
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An interesting way of harnessing the natural energy of teenagers. Definitely worthy of further exploration.
Understanding By Design - 0 views
What You (Really) Need to Know - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Education will be more about how to process and use information and less about imparting it.
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An inevitable consequence of the knowledge explosion is that tasks will be carried out with far more collaboration.
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New technologies will profoundly alter the way knowledge is conveyed.
Eight brief points about "merit pay" for teachers | Daniel Pink - 0 views
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The notion that the central problem in American education is lack of teacher motivation is ludicrous.
"What's Your Story?" 2011 Winners - 1 views
Splitting Your Audiobook Recordings into Chapters Using Audacity | Suite101.com - 0 views
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Great Tool. Splitting Your Audiobook Recordings into Chapters Using Audacity http://t.co/J467Fql7 #Suite101 #coetail
How the music industry managed to screw itself so spectacularly - Simply Zesty - Simply... - 0 views
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