Great Article over at Wired about how PBS is planning on releasing hundreds of Nova interviews as Creative Commons-licensed content. This is great for news for open courseware content creators who want to include this material in their courses. Essentially, the license allows the creator (PBS) to retain full copyright privileges on the content, but allow the public to freely share, distribute, copy and transmit the work.

Well, it’s official. I will be defending my Master’s project on May 9th. This marks the end of a 6-year college career and the beginning of a project that will hopefully help others get on board with the open courseware movement.

If you’re in the greater Lansing area on May 9th, stop by:
134 Comm Arts Building, Studio D at 10:00am.

Education is expensive. Not only is it expensive, but costs at some U.S. universities are skyrocketing at ten to twenty times the current rate of inflation. To give you an example, I’ve been attending Michigan State University since August of 2002 (four years as an undergraduate and two as a grad student). In that six years, tuition for in-state undergraduates has jumped from $179.75 to $277.50 per credit hour. That’s an increase of over 60% in 6 years—obviously our current system is not sustainable.

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