The University of Europe: accessible to all

The Guardian by Mandy Garner | Jan. 20, 2009 (Special Report)

Universities in Europe are looking to embrace a new form of learning, called open content, which could blow away the division between university students and the rest of the population.

In the UK, the Joint Information Systems Committee (Jisc) and the Higher Education Academy are launching a £5.7m pilot scheme to investigate the impact of open content and to look at issues of how to contextualise existing online material so anyone can make sense ... Full Story »

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by Stephen Selman - Jan. 22, 2009

While the concept of open content is nothing new, the idea of higher education embracing this on a large scale is very interesting. Hearing some more theory on the mechanics of such a project would have been interesting.