I am asking you for a big favor in this blog post! You can help me to achieve one of my childhood dreams: I am an enthusiastic teacher and love to share information (as you might have seen by reading my blog) Over the last month I have designed a structure for an online course …
Tag: open education
Web science education and web science mooc
The slides of my talk in the web science education workshop can be found here. The talk was about two things: Our application for the web science mooc (
Teaching Web Science (web architecture and Web ethics) to students
In July 2012 we taught a course for the German National Summer School for high school students. The course consisted of 50 hours over 14 days. Due to some specific settings of the Summer School we had to make a few adjustments to the format of our curriculum and lectures. Still we gathered some good …
Support Simon Turschner's project Vensenya to help children in need
This morning I received an email from Simon Turschner asking me to look at his new project Vensenya. http://www.indiegogo.com/vensenya I did and donated 150 Euro to the project because I think it is just great what Simon plans to do. I know Simon from a summer academie in Guidel 2008 after he received his master …
Big step towards open access by Great Britain and a comment from Neelie Kroes
During my vaccation a lot of stuff has been happened and it was just for today that I came along the following article and discussion: http://royalsociety.org/policy/projects/science-public-enterprise/report/. Yes you read correctly the royal society wants to create open access to all publications financed by the British government. What a big step! Congratulation to all British people …
Google Video on Search Quality Meeting: Spelling for Long Queries by Lars Hellsten
Amazing! Today I had a discussion with a coworker about transparency and the way companies should be more open about what they are doing! And what happens on the same day? One of my favourite webcompanies has decided to publish a short video taken from the weekly search quality meeting! The proposed change by Lars …
Open Access and the Boycott of Elsevier! Let uns not stop here and take the digital revolution one step further!
Believing in open models and supporting ideas of copy left I am more than happy to see the current developement of scientists worldwide publicly making statements of not supporting Elsevier in the future which I will obviously join! You can find the page where scientists make thos statements under: http://thecostofknowledge.com/ And you find much more resources …
Internet educates africa! Open education – a success story!
Obviously education is one of the topics that is important to me. recently I wrote about a teach first project. 6 month ago I was participating in a workshop organized by the Universities of Koblenz. This workshop was for future entrepreneurs teaching them some basics about design thinking and about business plans! Together with two …