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Posted by Dr. Margaret Zeegers on 2009/03/30
I am waiting with bated breath for a book that seems to have gone out of print almost as soon as it has been published: Baez, Fernando (2009)
A universal history of the destruction of books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern Iraq, published by Atlas. I have managed to track one down, and should have it in a week or two, but in the meantime, folk might be interested in the following: another form of book destruction that has a most positive twist. It was sent to me by one of my graduate students, and it’s a video clip about Rice University professor Richard Baraniuk, and his project Connexions. This is his open-source, online education system which cuts out the textbook, allowing teachers to share and modify course materials freely, anywhere in the world. It’s the free bit that is particularly appealing in relation to the dissemination of knowledge currently or previously published in book form. This ‘burning’ refers to digital forms, and it’s an interesting twist on the idea. Folk may get the video on this at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/richard_baraniuk_on_open_source_learning.html
A universal history of the destruction of books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern Iraq, published by Atlas. I have managed to track one down, and should have it in a week or two, but in the meantime, folk might be interested in the following: another form of book destruction that has a most positive twist. It was sent to me by one of my graduate students, and it’s a video clip about Rice University professor Richard Baraniuk, and his project Connexions. This is his open-source, online education system which cuts out the textbook, allowing teachers to share and modify course materials freely, anywhere in the world. It’s the free bit that is particularly appealing in relation to the dissemination of knowledge currently or previously published in book form. This ‘burning’ refers to digital forms, and it’s an interesting twist on the idea. Folk may get the video on this at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/richard_baraniuk_on_open_source_learning.html
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