In which educators crowdsource teaching ideas

Barbara Lindsey | December 6, 2010


Just under an hour ago, Tom Barrett, originator of the Interesting Ways series, started a new series on Google Forms in the Classroom. He used Twitter to invite educators to join him in creating this Creative Commons licensed work. In less than one hour (!) contributors from all over the world built this document from [...]

In which old world copyright gives way to new world creative commons

Barbara Lindsey | December 17, 2008


CC License: Confusing Signals by Luis Argerich In a previous post, Kevin spoke about copyright and Creative Commons from the perspective of a faculty member. Just ten years ago a significant amount of my time as a language lab director involved enforcing and documenting compliance with various media copyright requirements. In some languages, for example, [...]

In which the evolution of the monograph is the remix

Kevin Gaugler | November 11, 2008


In a previous post I wrote about the new metrics for evaluating scholarly production in a Web 2.0 world. Then, Barbara recently posted about the spontaneity of publication on the new web. Building upon these thoughts, I wish to discuss the shifting expectations for content from single author monographs to multiple author modules. When using [...]