Nov 26, 2001

IU Technology Architecture Lodge
Random and not so random thoughts from Raymond Yee, primarily on the scholarly and educational use of the Web, libraries, educational technology, and information management

Nov 26, 2001

Chronicle of Higher Education: " The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has begun the pilot phase of its closely watched plan to create detailed Web pages for nearly all of its courses and develop courseware tools that other institutions could use free."

Universities should resist e-imperialism: "There is a further dimension. Effective e-learning depends on the protection of intellectual property - or, to be more direct, a recognition that knowledge is a commodity to be bought and sold. But universities find it hard to accept that knowledge is a commodity. The best research and the best teaching depend on knowledge being "free". E-learning extends to teaching the awkward dilemmas universities have already encountered in the commercialisation of research." Is the author saying that knowledge is inherently a commodity and that the university just doesn't recognize that basic truth or that e-learning as currently practiced relies on the commodification of knowledge and, hence, the university will not be able to compete effectively in the e-learning business? (at least, as it will be practiced in the "real world"?) Or something else....[Link from Serious Instructional Technology]

Oct Dec

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