Open Culture

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By Nishant Shah 02/03/2012 - 10:30am Comments
Last year was a turbulent year for freedom of speech and online expression in India. Early in 2011 we saw the introduction of an Intermediaries Liability amendment to the existing Information Technologies Law in the country, which allowed...
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Nishant Shah  Profile Picture
By Nishant Shah 02/03/2012 - 10:30am Comments
Last year was a turbulent year for freedom of speech and online expression in India. Early in 2011 we saw the introduction of an Intermediaries Liability amendment to the existing Information Technologies Law in the country, which allowed...
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By Liz Losh 02/28/2012 - 7:30am Comments
Like many in the digital media and learning community, I am a fan of the free and open source computer programming language, Processing, which can be easily downloaded at Processing.org.  Processing is an incredibly accessible computer...
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By Howard Rheingold 10/06/2011 - 1:40pm Comments
Mark Surman is in the business of connecting things: people, ideas, everything. A community technology activist for almost 20 years, Mark is currently the executive director of the Mozilla Foundation, with a focus on inventing new ways to...
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By Howard Rheingold 07/26/2012 - 10:20am Comments
One powerful benefit of networked learning is that when you find something interesting, it often leads to someone interesting – and that someone often leads to entire networks of interesting people. Or, as Dr. Alec Couros puts it, “the tools...
Professor Alec Couros: "The Connected Teacher" Blog Image
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By Howard Rheingold 10/06/2011 - 1:40pm Comments
Mark Surman is in the business of connecting things: people, ideas, everything. A community technology activist for almost 20 years, Mark is currently the executive director of the Mozilla Foundation, with a focus on inventing new ways to...
Democratizing Learning Innovation Blog Image
Liz Losh  Profile Picture
By Liz Losh 02/28/2012 - 7:30am Comments
Like many in the digital media and learning community, I am a fan of the free and open source computer programming language, Processing, which can be easily downloaded at Processing.org.  Processing is an incredibly accessible computer...
DIY Programming Blog Image
Howard Rheingold  Profile Picture
By Howard Rheingold 10/06/2011 - 1:40pm Comments
Mark Surman is in the business of connecting things: people, ideas, everything. A community technology activist for almost 20 years, Mark is currently the executive director of the Mozilla Foundation, with a focus on inventing new ways to...
Democratizing Learning Innovation Blog Image
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By Liz Losh 08/06/2012 - 3:00pm Comments
Next year, over a hundred feminist scholars are slated to teach a new kind of online course—the first “MDCLE” or “massively distributed collaborative learning experiment”—tentatively titled “Feminist Dialogues on Technology."  Drawing on...
Bodies in Classrooms: Feminist Dialogues on Technology, Part I Blog Image
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By Liz Losh 08/09/2012 - 11:45am Comments
Professor Anne Balsamo has been collaborating with Professor Alexandra Juhasz and a group of more than one hundred feminist scholars to pilot a new kind of online course devoted to feminist dialogues on technology. Balsamo recently left the...
Learning from Failure: Feminist Dialogues on Technology, Part II Blog Image
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By Howard Rheingold 08/30/2012 - 9:25am Comments
Nearly two years before Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun shook up educational institutions with their massive open online course on artificial intelligence, using videos, blogs, wikis, and online tests, photography educators Jonathan Worth,...
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By Liz Losh 02/28/2012 - 7:30am Comments
Like many in the digital media and learning community, I am a fan of the free and open source computer programming language, Processing, which can be easily downloaded at Processing.org.  Processing is an incredibly accessible computer...
DIY Programming Blog Image
Nishant Shah  Profile Picture
By Nishant Shah 02/03/2012 - 10:30am Comments
Last year was a turbulent year for freedom of speech and online expression in India. Early in 2011 we saw the introduction of an Intermediaries Liability amendment to the existing Information Technologies Law in the country, which allowed...
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By Doug Belshaw 06/19/2012 - 8:40am Comments
I’ve come to realize over the last couple of years just how important the Open Web is for online innovation. It’s a standards-based platform that allows anyone to use relatively low-cost technologies to connect things and people together in new...
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Liz Losh  Profile Picture
By Liz Losh 08/06/2012 - 3:00pm Comments
Next year, over a hundred feminist scholars are slated to teach a new kind of online course—the first “MDCLE” or “massively distributed collaborative learning experiment”—tentatively titled “Feminist Dialogues on Technology."  Drawing on...
Bodies in Classrooms: Feminist Dialogues on Technology, Part I Blog Image
Liz Losh  Profile Picture
By Liz Losh 08/09/2012 - 11:45am Comments
Professor Anne Balsamo has been collaborating with Professor Alexandra Juhasz and a group of more than one hundred feminist scholars to pilot a new kind of online course devoted to feminist dialogues on technology. Balsamo recently left the...
Learning from Failure: Feminist Dialogues on Technology, Part II Blog Image
Liz Losh  Profile Picture
By Liz Losh 02/28/2012 - 7:30am Comments
Like many in the digital media and learning community, I am a fan of the free and open source computer programming language, Processing, which can be easily downloaded at Processing.org.  Processing is an incredibly accessible computer...
DIY Programming Blog Image
Doug Belshaw Profile Picture
By Doug Belshaw 06/19/2012 - 8:40am Comments
I’ve come to realize over the last couple of years just how important the Open Web is for online innovation. It’s a standards-based platform that allows anyone to use relatively low-cost technologies to connect things and people together in new...
On the Importance of Webmaking Blog Image
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By Doug Belshaw 07/23/2012 - 9:00am Comments
I’ve recently started in a new role for the Mozilla Foundation. At least half of my job there is to come up with a framework, a White Paper, around the concept of ‘web literacies’. It’s got me thinking about both parts of that term -- both the...
Web Literacies: What is the 'Web' Anyway? Blog Image
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By Liz Losh 08/06/2012 - 3:00pm Comments
Next year, over a hundred feminist scholars are slated to teach a new kind of online course—the first “MDCLE” or “massively distributed collaborative learning experiment”—tentatively titled “Feminist Dialogues on Technology."  Drawing on...
Bodies in Classrooms: Feminist Dialogues on Technology, Part I Blog Image