March 17th, 2008
Blog Roundup 3/17/08: Not About Leprechauns
I love Ireland as much as the next girl, but I will pass on wishing you a happy St. Paddy’s, as it basically celebrates the end of indigenous pagan religion in Ireland (”driving out the snakes” = “driving out/converting the pagans”). I will, however, wish you a happy Bacchanalia, a much older festival that may be one of the reasons that people use gallons of beer to celebrate this religious holiday.
On to the roundup! Story number one is my first introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER), a project of UNESCO that aims to create learning resources open to anyone worldwide, for free. This, of course, could improve educational prospects for refugees, residents of developing countries and the underprivileged everywhere. What an excellent idea.
From the “duh” files, we have this story about college hazing. I’m shocked, *shocked* that this sort of thing still goes on!
Matthew K. Tabor talks about a new entrepreneurship degree program at Ball State with the most nerve-wracking final effffver. You pitch your business plan to a panel of industry experts at the end. They like it, you pass. They don’t, no MBA for you.
Lastly, the Center for College Affordability and Productivity talks briefly about the success of the for-profit education model, before bringing us way down talking about financial aid. Maybe you just want to read the first part.
[...] an amusingly titled piece on the universal appeal of OERs (Open Educational Resources), a topic I rounded up a month or so ago. The problem with them, of course, is the same problem that plagues Wikipedia, to [...]
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