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Interview
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Date: October
6, 2005 4:35 PM
From: Jonathan Finkelstein |
A podcast conversation with Phillip Long of MIT on open source and community-owned initiatives, including: The Sakai Project, MIT OpenCourseWare, and the Horizon Report. Recorded at the NMC regional conference.
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Phillip Long
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At the regional conference of the New Media Consortium held at Yale University last week, I sat down with Phillip Long, Senior Strategist for Academic Computing at MIT. He has been a driving force behind numerous high-profile and meaningful education initiatives, and in this 15 minute excerpt of conversation, we get an update and some perspectives on a few of them, including: |
- The Sakai Project: community source software development effort to design, build and deploy a new Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE) for higher education.
- The Open Courseware Initiative at MIT: an initiative by MIT to move all of its course syllabi and instructional materials online for free use by anyone.
- The Horizon
Project: an
annual report published by NMC highlighting current and predicted trends
in the use of technology in learning (Phil is the chair of the 2006 project
advisory board)
Here is the audio excerpt of our podcast conversation [approx. 15 minutes]:
These projects all constitute important
elements of a strengthening culture of sharing and collaboration among institutions
of learning. In particular, all of these initiatives involve the joint creation
of what I think of as "intellectual common property" that exists
for the benefit of all and is freely available to the community as a whole.
My conversation with Phil followed a very animated panel discussion on the Sakai Project, during which Phil joined Victor Edmonds, University of California, Berkeley, and Chuck Powell, Yale University. All-three institutions represented on the panel are in varying stages of piloting Sakai. Come next fall, Berkeley will be moving exclusively to the open source course management system and-will cease supporting commercial CMS systems on campus. Yale currently has over 250 courses on Sakai, and counting. MIT has about 65-70% of its courses in their own Stellar course management system, but have a number of courses piloting Sakai; MIT is one of the leading partners in the Sakai initiative.
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-- Jonathan Finkelstein
Executive Producer
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Interview
with Michael Roy about Academic Commons |
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Date: October
6, 2005 5:36 PM
From: Jonathan Finkelstein |
An audio podcast interview with Michael Roy, founding editor of Academic Commons, and director
of Academic Computing Services and Digital
Projects at Wesleyan University in Middletown,
Connecticut. Roy discusses the goals
of the Academic Commons and LoLa Exchange
sites.
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Academic Commons seeks "to form a community of faculty, academic technologists, librarians, administrators, and other academic professionals who will help create a comprehensive web resource focused on liberal arts education." Featuring peer-reviewed content, articles, and learning objects, the site focuses on the needs of liberal arts education professionals.
The first edition of the Academic Commons Quarterly launched in August 2005 and can be found at:
http://www.academiccommons.org/august2005/
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Michael Roy.
Photo from Wesleyan University web site
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Michael Roy joined members
of the editorial team of Academic Commons to present a session
about the initiative at the New
Media Consortium regional conference
held at Yale University last week. I sat down with Michael
the day before, and captured a segment of our conversation to
share with you. I am a member of the Academic Commons Board,
and was pleased to finally have a chance to talk with Michael
in person.
In our recorded podcast discussion, Michael talked
about Academic Commons, their review process, and the LoLa (Learning
Object Leaning Activity) Exchange. He also explained how
the learning object repository for peer-reviewed liberal arts
materials is related to MERLOT, which also houses learning objects
for free use by educators. In this recording, Michael also
discussed "The Image Project", which is a survey of
liberal arts colleges to gather examples of the use of digital
images within teaching and research institutions.
Here is the excerpt of our conversation [approx.
9 minutes]:
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