TheoLib » Digital Divide http://digilib.bu.edu/blogs/theolib exploring issues in theological librarianship... Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:55:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9-rare en hourly 1 © jwa@bu.edu () jwa@bu.edu() exploring issues in theological librarianship... jwa@bu.edu No no http://digilib.bu.edu/blogs/theolib/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg TheoLib http://digilib.bu.edu/blogs/theolib 144 144 What if Napster stocked textbooks? http://digilib.bu.edu/blogs/theolib/archives/485 http://digilib.bu.edu/blogs/theolib/archives/485#comments Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:27:29 +0000 jwa http://digilib.bu.edu/blogs/theolib/scholarly-publishing/485 Baraniuk’s vision of an open source system for sharing digital texts is consistent with our vision for the History of Missiology web site though admittedly a few steps further down the road. We are trying to provide a body of texts that can support teaching, research, investigation, and conversation about the the beginnings of Christianity in the non western world, the founding of indigenous churches, and early theories of comparative religion. Mission thinkers produced some of the first ethnographic studies of people in primal societies, and histories of encounters between westerners and people from Asia, Africa, and the America. In a course setting, the site provides for the students and professor to engage in conversation through blogs, discussion forums, and chat. Baraniuk has taken the vision a step further to encourage a real mashup of the texts in a way that I find to be a really fascinating possibility.

Naturally, his vision has enormous implication for scholarly publishing…

Engineering professor Richard Baraniuk talks about his vision for Connexions, an open-source system that lets teachers share digital texts and course materials, modify them and give them to their students — all free, thanks to Creative Commons licensing.


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Tags: , , , ]]> http://digilib.bu.edu/blogs/theolib/archives/485/feed 0 Update on the $100 laptop project… http://digilib.bu.edu/blogs/theolib/archives/362 http://digilib.bu.edu/blogs/theolib/archives/362#comments Thu, 06 Apr 2006 13:12:21 +0000 jwa http://digilib.bu.edu/blogs/theolib/?p=362 Wired cover’s Nicholas Negroponte’s address to LinuxWorld.  I still think this is a fascinating project, designed to address the problems of cost and infrastructure…

Wired News: Laptop Detractors Shrugged Off
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who hopes to give $100 laptops to the world’s children dismissed recent criticisms Tuesday and said his project could begin distributing the computers by early next year.

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