It is well known that the rules that allow for certain educational uses of copyrighted works under certain conditions without permission of the rights' owners vary greatly between countries. But how different are those rules? And how difficult is to access those differences? Can a teacher with no legal background determine alone whether a certain...

Adobe has just given us a graphic demonstration of how not to handle security and privacy issues. A hacker acquaintance of mine has tipped me to a huge security and privacy violation on the part of Adobe. That anonymous acquaintance was examining Adobe's DRm for educational purposes when they noticed that Digital Editions 4, the newest version of ...

in the age of communities of practices online (seek>sense>share>) an emerging role could be this one: http://www.bottomlineperformance.com/how-we-use-social-media-for-informal-learning/

About cheating at UCLA as a 'natural' open way of learning

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a useful resource to understand better Morozov perspective

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 paper draws general insights into the public reception of scientific knowledge from a case study of Cumbrian sheep farmers' responses to scientific advice about the restrictions introduced after the Chernobyl radioactive fallout. The analysis identifies several substantive factors which influence the credibility of scientific communication. Publicuptake of science might be improved if scientific institutions expressed an equivalent reflexive discourse in the public domain

Just a few short years ago, the world of digital scholarly texts was in its primordial stages, and it is still the case that most online editions are simply basic HTML or scanned images from more or less arbitrarily chosen print editions.

it's about technologies and values as part of the discussions (Couros especially) is moving towards a critical perspective

nice to read all the different opinions. I'm new to twitter and i will to experiment it via this course...

check this: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/free_download/9780262013369%20_Hanging_Out.pdf it's about researches about children and teens learning in our age. The researches were supervised by Mizuko ito.

i agree Ken. Lectures should feed students with the what i call "the energy of the desire to know" coming from the professor or lecturer...very few are able to give this and through my studies i still hold inside that energy whenever i met chaps with that energy inside...Otherwise i would move to hands on, cooperative learning, learning by doing, problem based learning, mooc and the rest...

very interesting. Thank you. I'm always curious to see what is happening at the level of the EU about it..