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One of the disappointing aspects of the U.S.-Canada-Mexico Trade Agreement (USMCA) was the extension of copyright terms to the life of the author plus 70 years, well beyond the international standard of 50 years. One proposal from a committee studying the implementation of the extension was to require that copyright holders be required to register for it. This, says Michael...

I recall referencing things like the Maine one-to-one laptop program quite a bit when it was first launched. What has happened to initiatives like that? They seem less necessary now that it seems like almost everyone has their own computing device...

I'm not sure how deeply I'll be able to pore into what promised to be a fascinating exploration, but I'm sure some readers will be interested. Even the first few paragraphs of this précis are enough the roil the blood (quoting Fred Dretske, for...

This is a nice overview of the concept of feedback in learning, complete with a set of useful resources at the end. I think the term is being used largely as a synonym for 'assessment', especially at the beginning of the article (which describes 'formative' and 'summative'...

This is the second part of a longer post on the power of communities (part one here) and the gist is that as the pandemic has made clear the failings of a world based on power,...

This is something to keep half an eye on. "Kalaksi is a new way of social network. It adds social features on top of standard RSS feeds. Create 'planets' to act as different timelines, aggregate content from several sources, and publish it all to...

What I want to know is how we came to be in a world where e-books are a lot more expensive than physical books, so much so that the libraries are increasingly unable to afford them? "Librarians sometimes pay hundreds of dollars to circulate one copy of an e-book for a two-year period, a...