Author: karen

The 2009 Consolidated Appropriations Act signed by Obama this week includes a provision that makes permanent the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy. This policy requires NIH-funded research to put electronic copies of their peer-reviewed research into a

I am excited to be presenting two sessions on open content at NECC in DC this summer: Open-Licensed Content: The Missing Piece Monday, 6/29/2009, 8:30am–9:30am (BYOL) Open Educational Resources: Share, Remix, Learn Tuesday, 6/30/2009, 12:30pm–1:30pm in Open Source Lab Other

I have long ranted about the massive amount of money that is spent in K-12 for textbooks that are ineffective. In the many of the most engaging classrooms I visit, those textbooks are on a shelf in the back of

I was very gratified to have about 200 people attend my session on Open Ed at NCCE in Portland, OR. Clearly, there is a lot of interest in this important area. As often the case at ed tech conferences, I

I hate the words “royalty free.” Most sites who advertise this way are not free at all. Despite this, droves of people flock to them to get clip art, photos, and music. The hard-to-discover ways these sites make money range