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Woah. 

The purpose of ATHEN is to collect and disseminate best practices in access technology within and for the higher education environment as well as present a collective voice for the professional practice of access technology in higher education.

An innovative approach to higher education (See also www.straighterline.com)

53% of bloggers are ages 21-35, followed by about 20% of 20 or youngers and 20% of 36-50s. Only 7% of blggers are 51-up -- still that's higher than I had thought. 

This excerpt, written by Katherine Yurica, discusses the views of Carl Jung and his vision of an artist. "The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purposes through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is 'man' in a higher sense--he is 'collective man'--one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic life of mankind."

An attractive, simple entry point for using Web 2.0 tools in teaching and learning -- at least for the Georgetown University community. It's too bad that theirs is a closed system, but the tools they are promoting and displaying do show a good range of various technologies and tools that can be adopted in higher education.

An important innovation in credentialing that could seriously challenge standard degrees

I made a comment in class today about how there is a large industry that is kind of developing on the internet. That is an industry that is paid to give businesses higher profiles on the internet. My mother works at a company that inserts links onto benign blogs, just to get links to show up more often when you look things up on a search engine. Check out this guy's blog as an example. This guy isn't too sneaky about it: He puts his purpose in the title. Its just interesting to see the jobs that are opening up through the internet.

Summary : Michael Feldstein's contribution to the OSS and OER in Education Series. In this post, he writes about how open source projects work from an economic perspective. Drawing on the work of Nobel Prize-winning economist Ronald Coase and Harvard economics professor Yochai Benkler, he will provide some perspective on how open source projects manage to defy conventional wisdom about economics and self-interested behavior, and gives some questions that universities can ask when considering whether a particular open source software project is likely to be successful.

short summary about Nietzsche's life

Example of a hack. Pretty funny

That's great