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  • Open Source in Education Post Series on Terra Incognita

    My good friend Ken Udas has asked me to pass along the following:

    I would like to point you to a project that I am helping to coordinate on “The Impact of Open Source Software on Education,” in which a group of colleagues are posting perspectives on OSS in education. The group will make brief posts of their personal perspectives on OSS using Terra Incognita (the Penn State World Campus Blog). Most of the authors have a strong distance, open, and eLearning background. After each posting there will be a period of time during which comments, feedback, and dialog will occur. Eventually the posting, comments/discussion, and a brief summary will be formatted and made available as open educational resources on WikiEducator. During the days following each posting on Terra Incognita, the author will be available to respond to feedback and engage in a group dialogue with you.

    I think that this activity could provide an excellent introduction to OSS in Education for practitioners and is also a way to get a feel for some perspectives from around the globe. We have contributing authors form the US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Kenya, and South Africa currently scheduled.

    If you are interested in learning more about the “The Impact of Open Source Software on Education” series, you can check out the project site at on WikiEducator.

    Or if you just want to check out the first posting it will be made on Terra Incognita on March 12th. An interview with Ruth Sabean, assistant vice provost for educational technology in UCLA’s College of Letters and Science, will kick off the series on March 12. Ruth ran the evaluation process at UCLA that resulted in the selection of the open source application Moodle.

    Parts one and two of the interview with Ruth Sabean are up now and are very interesting reads.

  • Add This Feed to Your RSS Reader

    Friend, colleague, connoisseur of Swedish schnapps, and Executive Director of Penn State World Campus Ken Udas has started a blog. There are two reasons why this is significant. First, Ken often has novel perspectives on his work, and from the early posts it looks like this blog will be no exception. Second, it’s an official blog on a PSU URL. I would like to see more university executives take the plunge this way. Kudos to Ken for leading the way.

    The RSS feed is here.

  • Ken Udas is Moving to Penn State

    I am both sad and delighted to report that friend and colleague Ken Udas will be leaving SUNY to become the next Executive Director of Penn State’s World Campus. Sad because I will miss having him to share triumphs, trials, tribulations, and tragedies with on a daily basis. Delighted because Ken is a stellar professional who deserves to be in a place where he can have the greatest impact on the broader world of online learning. I’m sure that Ken and his new colleagues at PSU will accomplish great things together.

  • Open Source, Cross-Platform Groove for Academia?

    It looks like Penn State is modifying the LimeWire code base to create file sharing with digital rights management (DRM) and authentication built in. They will also add the ability to tie into specific university data repositories as well as adding collaboration tools. Sounds like Groove to me. The project, LionShare, will be ready in the Fall of 2005.