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Surprisingly, perhaps, education was one of the late-comers to the openness party (couldn't be all those fiercely protective academic eg...

One of my favourite writers is John Robb; his book Brave New War is all about "open source warfare" - how the ideas behind open s...

For some years I have contemplated – and even planned out in some detail - a kind of follow-up to Rebel Code , which would look at the ways ...

More good news on the open courseware front : Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to seven introductory courses taught by distin...

I have to declare an interest in the new blog Open Teaching, Learning & Certification , since I was probably partly instrumental in its ...

Major European studies on open source are two a penny these days (and that's good), but some of the other opens have yet to achieve this...

One of the benefits of open courseware is that it allows developing countries to access high-quality teaching materials for no cost. But in...

I've written about the OpenCourseWare ( OCW ) initiative several times. It began at MIT, but is now spreading as other institutions mak...

Even though MIT's OpenCourseWare is better-known, Rice's Connexions programme is arguably a more innovative and thorough-going exa...

I wrote some while back about the Open University's plans to offer its materials as open courseware. Its dedicated site, called OpenLe...

Innovate - the "journal of online education" - has an issue exploring the potential of open source software and related trends t...

Yale has jumped on the open courseware bandwagon - with a twist : Yale University is producing digital videos of selected undergraduate cou...

Open courseware is an exciting application of openness in the educational context, that is about distributing courseware. The University C...

Open content is an area that I follow quite closely. I've just finished the second of a series of articles for LWN.net that traces the ...

Great news (via Open Access News and the Guardian ): the Open University is turning a selection of its learning materials into open course...