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Thoughts on Information for Change II
Posted on Monday, June 16th, 2008 by Mark Horner

Today I attended the Information for Change II workshop held at the Cape Town Book Fair. It is still a little unclear exactly how I came to be there, apart from driving I mean. Bill Carman and Steve Song arranged it so that I got to present a poster on our latest pet idea, the [...]

Tags: musing, print on demand, publishing industry
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128 physical manifestations of disease …
Posted on Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 by Mark Horner

Ok, the title is probably not worded very precisely but it’s in the right ballpark. During the meeting today, one of the people from the University of Michigan mentioned that there are only 128 symptoms (is this the right word) a patient can present, it was a talk about health faculties sharing OERs. This had [...]

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Who should make OERs?
Posted on Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 by Mark Horner

I just wanted to capture a concern and some thoughts around it. Today I heard it said in a meeting that available OERs are of low quality, irrespective of their cost. This was used to justify the statement that we should not expect OERs to be cheap, we should focus on their quality even if [...]

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