Archive for the 'A2K' Category

Jun 11 2007

Information, Media and the Mission of University in the Digital Age

I’ve been working on a first pass at my directed study proposal for the fall. Here it is:
“Digital media, the Internet and copyright law present growing challenges to educators and academic institutions working to share access to teaching and learning resources inside and outside the classroom. But what is a classroom in the digital age? [...]

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Jun 02 2007

Open Access at University - OpenCourseWare and Beyond at IS2K7

The photo above includes some notes from the “Open Access at University - OpenCourseWare and Beyond” afternoon working group session at yesterday’s IS2K7 conference.
This session provided an opportunity for participants to learn more from Anne Margulies about MIT’s OpenCourseWare project and some of the opportunities and challenges.
Here are some of my notes from the working [...]

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May 01 2007

Open Media Publishing in Online Learning Environments

Eric Gordon (Emerson College), Dean Jansen (Berkman Center/Participatory Culture Foundation) and I convened a one-day working group session last Thursday (4/26) at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society to discuss the potential of open source media publishing tools within online learning environments. Around 20 people were in attendence from a variety of academic and [...]

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Mar 29 2007

Chronicle Podcast on Digital Libraries

The Chronicle for Higher Education’s Wired Campus Blog discusses “How Digital Libraries will Change Academe” with Internet Archive’s Brewster Kahle.
In the inaugural installation of The Chronicle’s new weekly podcast series, Mr. Kahle offers a progress report on his project and outlines his vision for the future of digital libraries.
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Mar 20 2007

Mary Wong on Copyright & Access to Knowledge

Mary Wong of Franklin Pierce Law Center at Berkman Center for Internet & Society (where I work), March 20, 2007.
On Copyright & Access to Knowledge: Rights/Rhetoric, Openness/Opacity, Future/Fears
Professor Wong is working on research at the intersection of copyright policy & knowledge (Access to Knowledge or “A2K”). She says that copyright and IP law are exclusive [...]

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