<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On 22 Jun 2007, at 1:53 PM, Antoine van Gelder wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/21/business/smallbusiness/21edge.html?ei=5070&em=&en=30368db593d684da&ex=1182571200&pagewanted=all">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/21/business/smallbusiness/21edge.html?ei=5070&em=&en=30368db593d684da&ex=1182571200&pagewanted=all</A></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Bah! 'reply all' is an archaic and almost entirely deprecated usenet convention. :-)<DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Check this out. The outline is kind of bare, but the concept is infinitely better than the $60bn industry alleged above (:<DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://drupaled.openacademic.org">http://drupaled.openacademic.org</A>/</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It's kind of a cross authentication and integration platform for Drupal, Moodle and Wikimedia. How kewl is that?!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>(<A href="http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_3/keats/index.html">http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_3/keats/index.html</A>)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">"Perhaps most important, we need to come to terms with the fact that we are at a tipping-point in higher education, one that will lead us to "education 3.0," defined in part as "social networking outside traditional boundaries of discipline, institution, nation," "loose institutional affiliations and relations; [and the] entry of new institutions that provide higher education services."</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">(</SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.academiccommons.org/commons/essay/distance-learning-listening">http://www.academiccommons.org/commons/essay/distance-learning-listening</A>)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://freecourseware.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=blog&action=viewsingle&postid=init_1875_1176897746&userid=1">http://freecourseware.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=blog&action=viewsingle&postid=init_1875_1176897746&userid=1</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://lawspace.law.uct.ac.za:8080/dspace/handle/2165/237">http://lawspace.law.uct.ac.za:8080/dspace/handle/2165/237</A> is a long pdf on fair use exceptions in SA. Written in 1978 it appears to make sufficient allowance for the copying of text books (or sections thereof) for educational purposes. Like, say, emulating Kenya digitizing their entire syllabus but (not!) distributing it via handheld WorldSpace receivers with school base stations providing the asynchronous semi-simplex bidirectional 'communication': </DIV><DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><A href="http://www.eduvision.or.ke/home/home.html">http://www.eduvision.or.ke/home/home.html</A> . . . <BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I'm not particularly sorry if my AAADD (Age Acquired Attention Deficit Disorder) has you wondering if any of the above may have particular meaning or relevance to OLPC; as the probable answer is no. However, in mitigation, it's symptomatic of the schizophrenic dis-coordinated infancy days of Open Courseware ideology and commercially Enhanced Digital Learning.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Anyway, I have yet to be convinced that there is a major difference between classes that will be offered on XOs... and in vanilla client/server environments. Ideological core dumps appreciated.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Irie blessings,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-</DIV><DIV>Jeff Brown </DIV><DIV>wildcoast.com</DIV><DIV>074-101 5170</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>8< -- </DIV><DIV>Do not believe in miracles -- rely on them.</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>