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What Khan Academy is for Math, The Big History Project is to History. An incredible resource to share and very well-done. I saw this presented in a TED talk. It has impressed me with the quality of presentation and the open, big picture presentation that really inspires people.

I found this an amazing resource. Spent the morning watching the first few videos with my son, and then we have been thinking about what came before spacetime ever since. I like the idea of taking a multi-disciplinary approach to history.Thank you for posting the details.

This open access, academic book has chapters on a whole range of different aspects related to our course topics. It focuses on questions of knowledge systems and knowledge transfer, all throughout human history all over the world. Looks like a real gem!

NLI is responsible for the websites lokalhistorie.no, lokalhistoriewiki.no and toll.lokalhistorie.no. NLI also publishes sources, handbooks, overviews of literature and sources, questioners, as well as other aids for local historians. In cooperation with the National Federation of Local History Associations (Landslaget for lokalhistorie), NLI publishes the magazine Lokalhistorisk magasin. NLI also organises seminars and conferences related to local history topics.

Twenty five years after the world's most notorious wall came crashing down, Germany is Europe's undisputed, dominant nation. This is a reflection of economic power but also of media power. HARDtalk is in Berlin to visit the headquarters of one of Europe's most powerful publishing companies, Axel Springer. How does a traditional company thrive in the age of the internet? History in the making as newspapers try to survive in the digital age.

History of iStock In 2000, if you wanted to load up on digital stock photos you had to buy a CD-ROM. But iStock realized that in the 21st century the old way of distributing images wasn't going to work anymore. Instead of trying to sell physical copies of digital files, iStock put images online for free and saw a creative community grow around this radical idea. Web designers loved it and downloaded as many pictures as they could. Some of them had digital cameras and started uploading images of their own. When the monthly bandwidth bills topped $10,000, we asked the iStock community if they would support paying for images. The response was overwhelmingly positive.

"The current crisis, the deepest and longest in the history of capitalism, has opened a debate around the world about what appears, more clearly with each passing day, to be the simultaneous destruction of the two principal institutions of social and economic life: the State and the market. Never in living memory has the economic system been so universally questioned. On the other hand, never before have technical capacities been so powerful, and, more importantly, so accessible to people and small organizations. In fact, never before have so many small businesses taken part in the world market. Nearly free [gratis] P2P communication technologies let them create the largest commercial networks in history. The emergence of free software (which, by itself, represents the largest-ever transfer of value to the economic periphery) empowered them with unexpected independence. Millions of small businesses around the world, especially in Asia, were able to coordinate among themselves this way and hone their products just as new markets were opening up to them. It's "globalization of the small." It's not a marginal phenomenon: never before have so many people around the world gotten out of poverty."

After reading a brief history of copyright law after the advent of the printing press, it is easy to see that copyright has always been an evolving concept. With the internet we again find ourselves needing to redefine what copyright means and who its serving. The Stationers' Company era of copyright offered no protections to the author of the work, and now we offer a lot of protections to the author of the work - and the technologies we use to access works of knowledge and art are unable to do so with the current laws. I appreciate the videos in the current module that detailed the advances some countries are making in evolving copyright law to be more flexible and keep the user in mind.

starting from the Actor Network Theory (see Latour, Callon, Law) obbligatory passage points turn to distribuited passage points when the authors start describing boundary objects....

This is a list of the leading global thinkers. I found just reading through the list is inspiring and allows us to get a better grasp of the issues that we must consider and the advancements that are being made. I believe this list echos our time in history.

I found this super interesting! A great compilation of inspiring names that were split up into a good choice of categories. On top of that, it was a really cool read - the layout of the list was very creative and interactive.

Medieval Sourcebook

Alex writes, "It features censorship, hangings, dissent and criticism, a whole bunch of state and church control, angry queens, sad Stationers, and, of course, our terrible culprit: the printing press." Copy-me is the world's first ever animated web series about copyright, copying and open culture.

In this chapter you will learn about: How copyright law is an ever-evolving set of principles, balancing the rights of producers and consumers, that must be actively engaged by historians The history of copyright law, and where it has left us today How the application of copyright can differ on the web from the print world Your legal rights-and ethical obligations-as both a producer and consumer of intellectual property Which written materials, images, audio, and video you can use on your website, and when nce there was a real estate guide called "How to Buy and Sell a House."

Open resources including short videos for teachers and students of history

This is a beautiful video about the history os printing, I think it will be very interesting to you and it is nice to see it. I am sure all of us knows about this matter, it do not waste to see it. Hope you all like it. Julia Echeverría

An important TED Talk by Eli Pariser regarding search engines and social networks tailoring your search results using relevance algorithms based on your web history.

Welcome to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP). From its inception, the SEP was designed so that each entry is maintained and kept up-to-date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and substantive updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board before they are made public. Consequently, our dynamic reference work maintains academic standards while evolving and adapting in response to new research. You can cite fixed editions that are created on a quarterly basis and stored in our Archives (every entry contains a link to its complete archival history, identifying the fixed edition the reader should cite). The Table of Contents lists entries that are published or assigned. The Projected Table of Contents also lists entries which are currently unassigned but nevertheless projected.

I like this encyclopedia, I already have used it to do my homework, it has very structured information, and is like consult a great book of phylosophy and very specialized!

A paper that gives an introduction or tutorial to the Free/Open Source Software. Relevant to our discussion for module 1 are part II and III. Part II gave a brief history for such a movement. Part III explained in brief four components of F/OSS: the license (yes even something open needs a license), the community, the development process and only lastly is the software itself