This year seems to be about open source software development, access, courseware, repositories, content, with all of it being open to interpretation and re-interpretation at all times. What does the concept of “open” mean as more and more organizations move towards collaborative rather than a competitive models?
This week’s NSDL Whiteboard Report Talkback reports on a […]

A couple of observations as the thousand flowers of online networks continue to bloom.
If there’s any doubt about the scope of the garden visit the “Cornell Info 204 - Networks” blog where Cornell Information Science students are sharing emerging ideas and research about how the social, technological, and natural worlds are connected, and how the […]

This week in NSDL’s blogosphere Professor Jon Kleinberg’s Cornell Information Science 204 gets underway. The blog is a companion to a course that will “cover how the social, technological, and natural worlds are connected, and how the study of networks sheds light on these connections.” The first post displays a visualization of Jesus’ associates and […]

The MacArthur Foundation Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning recently highlighted the topic of Civic Engagement. Editor Lance Bennett introduced the topic on Dec. 4: “What may be most important for politicians, educators, and young people, themselves, is to learn how to use digital media technologies to build civic and political communities that enable young […]

The Pew Internet and American Life Project and the Exploratorium, a San Francisco-based science museum formed a partnership last year to find out how Americans get science news and information with support from the National Science Foundation. The report from a national survey was released on November 20, 2006. Findings were that fully 87% of […]

Where do the questions that lead to knowledge acquisition and application get asked and discussed online? Or do they? Do these questions come up outside of mediated educational contexts? Why?
These are just a few of the questions that Expert Voices developers have. There are missing pieces in the Expert Voices practical and social equation for […]

Check out Annual Meeting photos, and add your comments here here.
Add your thoughts on how education digital libraries might be sustained into the future to NSDL sustainability Annual Meeting panelists ideas. Kevin Guthrie is president of Ithaka, a not-for-profit organization with a mission to accelerate the productive uses of information technologies for the benefit of […]

The NSDL community is speaking of something interesting–and you are invited to share those educational discussions with your communities.
Blog discussions range from scientists who are sharing research tips that tie data collected by Citizen Scientists from all over the country to teaching and learning in “Bringing the Field to the Classroom–Birds”, to in-depth science, technology, […]

Educational technology systems are often designed by people in dry schools or offices with colleagues who have just had lunch. Brad Edmondson reports on why the notion of delivering high quality digital education opportunities to Gulf Coast schools where Dan Reed, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, described rigging up an on-the-fly wireless communications system that […]

In the wikipedia entry explaining commonly-used software release terms there is a clear path from pre-alpha (designers are still determining exactly what functionalities the product should have), to alpha (demonstrates the feasibility and basic structure of the software), to beta (represents the first version of a computer program that implements all features in the initial […]