A couple of education-related posts caught my eye in recent days:
- Aggregator as Textbook. Will Richardson talks about the concept of bringing together the wealth of information on the ‘net and what that means for individual learning. His post is a great, practical look at using RSS.
- ’Open Universities’ Try to Bring College to Masses. Jennifer Woodward Maderazo, pitch-hitting for Mark Glaser, takes a look at a couple of free, online educational initiatives and finds them not ready for prime time yet. See the comments for a long list, and journalists and journalists-to-be should all be aware of NewsU.
- Professor Says Textbooks Are Too Expensive, Quits Using Them. I’ve thought that since, several years ago, in a fit of empathy, I walked into the bookstore, put down most of $200 and walked out with the two textbooks I had assigned to my students. Fortunately, most of the classes I now teach allow me to work with free resources off the net, and not textbooks.
