oh, that's interesting.

Today, “open content” is the biggest front of innovation in higher education. The movement that started at MIT has spread to more than 200 institutions in 32 countries that have posted courses online at the OpenCourseWare Consortium. But, as Wiley points out, there’s still a big gap between viewing such resources as a homework aid and building a recognized, accredited degree out of a bunch of podcasts and YouTube videos. “Why is it that my kid can’t take robotics at Carnegie Mellon, linear algebra at MIT, law at Stanford? And why can’t we put 130 of those together and make it a degree?” Wiley asks. “There are all these kinds of innovations waiting to happen. A sufficient infrastructure of freely available content is step one in a much longer endgame that transforms everything we know about higher education.”

shirtdress:

Anticipating every news story tonight about DJ AM’s death will include the phrase “Goldstein had just tweeted hours before his death …” made realize I should think twice about what I tweet and put as my fb status.  Especially considering that today I tweeted about that the back of my tongue being itchy.  (it still is!)

“I’d like to give a big round of applause to my band, Sexual Chocolate.”

Great Moments In My Facebook Feed #4

In related news, Noel’s brother Liam announces that he thought Noel had quit a decade ago and then punches him in the face.

Did anybody else (conveniently) forget that Tonya Harding had a sex tape?

Go watch the video and you can thank me later.