Comments on: Why I signed the Cape Town declaration http://www.jpedia.org/wp/archives/51 JP's work on the new internet, business, and society. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:13:49 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tiago Alves http://www.jpedia.org/wp/archives/51/comment-page-1#comment-25 Tiago Alves Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:30:28 +0000 http://jpedia.org/wp/archives/51#comment-25 Hi JP, I like the idea of having all course material available online and open to the world community. That would really help poor students from around the world access content that they would never have access to otherwise. Regarding the text books, I agree 100%. That is why I always bought the soft cover, international version of my text books. They were supposedly illegal in the US but they cost me 50% less! :-) Hi JP, I like the idea of having all course material available online and open to the world community. That would really help poor students from around the world access content that they would never have access to otherwise.

Regarding the text books, I agree 100%. That is why I always bought the soft cover, international version of my text books. They were supposedly illegal in the US but they cost me 50% less! :-)

]]> By: Pat Hoaglin http://www.jpedia.org/wp/archives/51/comment-page-1#comment-24 Pat Hoaglin Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:46:56 +0000 http://jpedia.org/wp/archives/51#comment-24 Hey JP, I think open education is definitely going to take over the current teaching formats in the near future. There is a really great example in Wikinomics of how this is beginning to take shape at MIT. Students from around the world can access the university's complete course materials online without having to pay tuition fees. "'MIT OpenCourseWare supports MIT's mission to advance knowledge and education, and serve the world in the 21st century.'" (Wikinomics, 23). Hopefully USF can begin to build its own open course information to support both USF students and aspiring intellectuals around the world. MIT OpenCourseWare: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm Hey JP,

I think open education is definitely going to take over the current teaching formats in the near future. There is a really great example in Wikinomics of how this is beginning to take shape at MIT. Students from around the world can access the university’s complete course materials online without having to pay tuition fees. “‘MIT OpenCourseWare supports MIT’s mission to advance knowledge and education, and serve the world in the 21st century.’” (Wikinomics, 23). Hopefully USF can begin to build its own open course information to support both USF students and aspiring intellectuals around the world.

MIT OpenCourseWare:

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

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