Danah Boyd joined the call for reforming how academics publish their work by calling for a boycott of non-open-access journals …and, provided a list of suggestions on what needs to be done now: Tenured Faculty and Industry Scholars: Publish only in open-access journals. Disciplinary associations: Help open-access journals gain traction. Tenure committees: Recognize alternate venues [...]

Clearly, students who bring in a 2-liter bottle of Coke will outperform the 16-oz. Coke-toting students. How long will teachers play these cat-and-mouse games before they give up on traditional tests altogether? Cheat At School Professionally

The flak I caught yesterday regarding SafeAssign got me thinking about term papers in the 21st century. Information and communications technologies make it easy and rewarding to share information. More recently, however, ICTs are allowing people to build creative and innovative products from the information available. We’re evolving into a “cut-and-paste society.” Some examples of [...]

Read the background story… (Thanks to Darwin Hendel for passing this along.)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb writes for Forbes that: Things, it turns out, are all too often discovered by accident–but we don’t see that when we look at history in our rear-view mirrors. The technologies that run the world today (like the Internet, the computer and the laser) are not used in the way intended by those [...]

The Online Education Database published their list of “Top 100 open courseware projects.” This list demonstrates that there is a lot of content available, encompassing in the fields of agriculture, arts, architecture, archeology, audio & video, biology, botany, chemistry, civil engineering, economics, electronic engineering, general engineering, Earth sciences, geography & geology, history, languages & linguistics, [...]

Enders, J. (1999). Crisis? What crisis? The academic professions in the “knowledge” society. Higher Education, 38(1), 71-81. Enders addresses the uncertainty of academic professions at universities in a future, knowledge-based society. The changing role and nature of universities in a knowledge-based society will cause fragmentation and differentiation among the professoriate to proliferate as new concepts [...]