MOOCs as Open Systems?

 Posted by on Monday, December 24, 2012

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I finally came across an interesting post on MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) by Clay Shirky. His main point is that the development of MOOCs is like the development of Open Software, and this openess will…

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Clay Shirky TED Talk on Open Source Democracy

 Posted by on Saturday, September 29, 2012

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Clay Shirky, author of the book Cognitive Surplus, delivers a TED talk on how the open source movement is built on a new model of community co-ordination and speculates on the possible implications for democracy.

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