20,000 Artistic Images Available for Free Download… and more from academia…

LA County Museum Makes 20,000 Artistic Images Available for Free Download from Open Culture by Kate Rix Here is the link: http://collections.lacma.org/ Harvard Secretly Searched Campus Emails in Internal Investigation from Mashable! by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai   Coursera’s Contractual Elitism   If you wonder why your university hasn?t linked up with Coursera, the massively popular provider … Read more

An academicus/literati roundup: Citizenship after orientalism at Open Democracy, Good practices for university open-access policies, Open Courses and more…

Citizenship after orientalism – an introduction from open Democracy News Analysis – by Engin Isin Introducing this week’s guest theme. Engin Isin holds a Chair in Citizenship and is Professor of Politics in Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University. He has published widely on the politics of … Read more

An Academic roundup: “Connected Learning” from Henry Jenkins/ 55 free Philosophy Courses/ Netwar 2.0 and more…

Henry Jenkins: Connected Learning: Reimagining the Experience of Education in the Information Age This weekend, I am attending the Third Digital Media and Learning Conference, hosted by the MacArthur Foundation, as part of their efforts to help build a field which takes what we have learned about young people’s informal learning, often through the more … Read more