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Ran into a bunch of interesting online workshops.
As part of its 2005-2006 Intellectual Property in Academia Online Workshop Series, the Center for Intellectual Property (CIP) at University of Maryland University College is offering two online workshops.
DRM in Higher Education, January 23 - February 3, 2006
Moderated by Kimberly Kelley, Ph.D., and by Clifford Lynch, Ph.D.
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Some great stuff over the past few weeks:
Classics:

War and Peace by Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

Culture, Science and History

Notes on Nursing by Florence Nightingale
Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 by Various [there's a [...]

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The Beeb has just launched their new Open News Archive.
Included amongst the initial offering of around 80 online reports will be footage from important events like the fall of the Berlin Wall, Beijing’s Tiananmen Square protest, the Poll Tax riots, the Piper Alpha disaster and Nelson Mandela’s release.

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A few weeks back Wesley Fryer pointed us to Doug Johnson’s “Teaching Students Right from Wrong in the Digital Age: A Technology Ethics Primer” (PDF.) I’ve read the PDF twice now and haven’t quite been able to figure out what to say about it. My immediate thought was that there was something sensationalistic [...]

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Wesley Fryer brings up some good points regarding web tools and open source adoption in education in his recent ‘Open Source Tipping Point‘ post. Adoption of web and open source tools is certainly increasing in both business and education but I’m not sure when the tipping point will come—particularly in education.
There are lots of companies [...]

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