Brainstorm in Progress

Wittgenstein (from Wikipedia)  I don't know if this is related to climate change or the polar vortex, but the yearly declarati...

William Shakespeare I was at a poetry reading at the library a while back and one of the poets had a poem about how lost in c...

Cable Green (Photo:  Jeffrey Beall ) The tirelessly brilliant and ubiquitous Cable Green sent out today's announcement fr...

Humboldt State University ( Wikipedia ) Our new class is slowly taking shape. The course will be based on our old DE 101 (Distance Ed 10...

U.S. Senator Richard Durbin, Ill.  The cost of new textbooks has increased 82%, three times faster than inflation, over the last deca...

The open source , web-based SALSA ( Styled & Accessible Learning Service Agreements) is a syllabus authoring tool from Utah State Un...

Boyoung Chae and Connie Broughton discuss the Open Course Library for Washington State's    Community and Technical Colleges . "...

Kim Thanos and David Wiley talk about their business, Lumen Learning. "After a decade and $100M US in foundation funding, an incredi...

Photo of Athabasca University (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Rory McGreal of Athabasca University presents on assessment of OER and OER Uni...

Textbook Stack (Photo credit: greenasian ) "The average U.S. college student spends more than $1,000 per year on textbooks and s...

Michael Caulfield discussed how MOOCs are being used.  "The "wrapped MOOC" has gained attention over the past year as a ...

human anatomy (Photo credit: Shira Golding ) These are some possible resources for developing our own textbook and course for anatomy an...

Loans (Photo credit: zingbot ) Daniel De Vise at The Washington Post reported that student loan debt is now at "$870 bill...

I am really excited about Neuro-Cloud. I heard about it in a tweet from Creative Commons this morning and went to take a look. This is a t...

Fredrick Furnivall, OED Editor via Wikipedia I write here a lot about technology and books, but specifically about open educatio...