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Monday, March 08, 2004

College for the Home-Schooled Is Shaping Leaders for the Right. Patrick Henry College, a college primarily for evangelical Christian home-schoolers, is a pipeline into conservative politics. By David D. Kirkpatrick. [New York Times: Education]
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Electronic Reserves and Fair Use - ARL. With recent changes to the U.S. Copyright Law, including the passage of the TEACH Act, there is renewed interest in identifying library best practices in applying fair use to electronic reserves operations. In the late 1990s, electronic reserves wer [Online Learning Update]
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The Psychology Behind Headphones [Slashdot]
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OpenCourseWare and MIT's "intellectual philanthropy". Lisa Currin, MIT's Double-Secret Hidden Agenda, eLearn. March 4, 2004. Currin reviews the background and the scope of MIT's OpenCourseWare, quoting the 'tute's Ann Margulies who expresses the wish that other institutions follow their lead in making educational materials available to a wide audience over the internet. The article reports that MIT may have as much as 2000 courses represented by 2007. Several faculty members relate their experiences with the program, including Prof. Ron Larsen, who with others aims to "create an online forum where practitioners, professors, and students can ask questions and share solutions." (Source: the Kept-Up Academic Librarian) [Open Access News]
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Workforce Connections Open Source Software. I'm passing along this information about Workforce Connections from Seb's Open Research weblog. I've examined the description of Connections and found it interesting and promising as a multipurpose tool, but I've not yet tried the software. JH
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Open source knowledge sharing tools from the US government. This suite looks pretty interesting, and it's very nice to see governments releasing free software. (via Situativity)


Workforce Connections is the first tool of its kind to be licensed by the U.S. government free of charge to public and private sector organizations.
From the FAQ: "What is Workforce Connections[dot accent]? Workforce Connections is a set of Web-based tools that enable content managers, with no programming experience, to dynamically create and manage online content in a secure environment. Workforce Connections; is an open source custom distribution available under a general public license (GPL) by the U.S. Department of Labor, it empowers non-technical individuals to create, acquire, share and control knowledge in real-time. Users can leverage Workforce Connections to build and maintain traditional Web sites, online courses, knowledge repository, online coach, and communities of practice portals."


Apparently, installing it is a techie's job though.

In the same vein: the opensourceCMS directory and exhibition of PHP/MySQL systems. Motto: "try before you install" - what a great idea.

[Seb's Open Research] [EduResources Weblog--Higher Education Resources Online]
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'Brain Pacemakers' Being Tested [Slashdot]
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Brain can switch to 'automatic pilot' during learning [Science Blog]
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The Implications Of Software Commodity? [Slashdot]
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A Motherboard That Doesn't Require An OS [Slashdot]
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