Posts in Conference Sessions

March 15th, 2010 in 21st Century Learning, Conference Sessions

SXSW 2010 — Universities in the “Free” Era

SXSW 2010 — Universities in the “Free” Era. MIT, Yale, Stanford, and others put lectures online. Chris Anderson argues that all university lectures should be free. From Academic Earth to TED, it’s free. So what is the value-add of a university education? What models of higher education will survive? How will universities leverage the social web to reinvent themselves Read Article

March 13th, 2010 in Conference Sessions

SXSW 2010 — Beauty in Web Design

Notes from SXSW 2010 — Beauty in Web Design. Great web design is all around us, but can we go beyond ‘cool’, ‘usable’ and ‘fun’ to create something truly beautiful? This session examines our changing attitudes to beauty, art and meaning, and why the web is ideally suited to become a vehicle for true beauty in the Information Age Read Article

February 25th, 2010 in Conference Sessions

TOC — DRM Digital Content and the User Experience — Lessons Learned from the Music Industry

Notes on DRM and lessons from the music industry from the O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference, February 22-24 Read Article

February 23rd, 2010 in Conference Sessions

TOC — Consumers in the Cloud – Google and Digital Books

Notes on a presentation by Google’s Abe Murray on Google Editions at the O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference, February 22-24, Read Article

February 23rd, 2010 in Conference Sessions

TOC: The Future of Digital Textbooks

These are notes from this morning’s session on the The Future of Digital Textbooks at the O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference (February 22-24, 2010) Read Article