I haven’t chosen a specific project for the FLC. I’m already involved in FOSS outreach, several FOSS projects, and several OER repositories. I could use one of them as the basis for a project. For example: for FOSS learning activities, install & configure several MediaWiki plugins, and create more & better links between materials. for POGIL activities for CS, update …

In “Open Pedagogy: Connection, Community, & Transparency”, Tom Woodward responds to questions from Mary Grush about open pedagogy, open planning, open products, and open post hoc. Woodward describes open pedagogy as “a blend of strategies, technologies, and networked communities that make the process and products of education more transparent, understandable, and available to all the people involved”. In “OER: Bigger …

On Motherboard, Daniel Oberhaus recently write “Nearly All of Wikipedia is Written by Just 1 Percent of Its Editors“. The post describes results from the book Structural Differentiation in Social Media by Sorin Matei and Brian Britt. Oberhaus notes that Wikipedia has 43M articles in 285 languages and is the 5th most popular website in the world, and that “all …

On Thu Oct 26 I attended a panel discussion at Lehigh University titled: Sci-Hub the Disruptor: Piracy and Publishing in Academia as part of Open Access Week. According to the Wikipedia on Sci-Hub: Sci-Hub is a website with over 62 million academic papers and articles available for direct download.[2] It bypasses publisher paywalls by allowing access through educational institution proxies. …