Open Minds, Open Opportunities

Open Education, Open Minds

Over the past few decades, advances in science and technology have produced a seemingly endless stream of new data, ideas, and knowledge, challenging scientists and educators alike to keep abreast of the latest concepts and discoveries in their fields. Adding to the wealth of new information posted online every day, more and more historical documents, books, and educational materials are being ...

Open Minds and Open Learning in the ‘cosmopolitan’ Internet

The promise of technology, in particular of the internet, was that access to information would become demography blind. But for all of the successes the global web of information has demonstrated to us, has it really achieved its potential as a vehicle for overcoming the divide between the ‘undereducated’ and the ‘overqualified,’ that is between the generations, or indeed between any of the soc...

Opportunities for Open Source eLearning

E-Learning is often conceived as a single product. In reality, however, the market offering is very heterogeneous with a large product variety. Think of learning management systems, virtual classrooms, authorware, test and assessment tools, simulators, and many more. Each of these e-learning applications is available from multiple vendors and middlemen. Next to more than 250 providers of commer...

Open source, open minds?: An investigation into attitudes towards open source library management systems in UK higher education libraries

Hard Heads and Open Minds: A Reply to Panksepp (2003)

In the authors’ original article (M. S. Blumberg & G. Sokoloff, 2001), they provided evidence that the ultrasonic vocalizations of infant rats are acoustic by-products of a physiological maneuver. In J. Panksepp’s (2003) comment, he sidestepped the authors’ empirical findings and focused on his concern that their perspective might prevent progress toward his ultimate goal of understanding the n...