{"id":1459,"date":"2009-06-12T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T21:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2010-08-15T20:21:43","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T01:21:43","slug":"revisiting-the-free-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/commentary\/revisiting-the-free-university","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting the Free University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webliminal.com\/images\/sidepics\/sp152.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 22px; margin-right: 22px;\" src=\"http:\/\/webliminal.com\/images\/sidepics\/cwdata\/sp152.jpg\" alt=\"Water trees and  Shadows \" align=\"left\" \/><\/a> When I was a graduate student at a large university in the east in the early 1970&#8217;s, Thinking we were reinventing the world we had the experience of starting food co-ops, going to a free store &#8211; take or leave what you want with no charge, and developing or participating in the free university. The later was a new concept to me.  An organized offering of courses &#8211; mostly ones that met for one or a few times, available to anyone who registered or signed up for the courses. Registration was necessary to enforce a limit on the number of people who attended and to develop a database of information about the participants.<\/p>\n<p>As I was doing some research on open courseware podcasts,\u00c2\u00a0 recollections of the\u00c2\u00a0 free university returned.\u00c2\u00a0 Open courseware seems to be a natural development of the freedom we want and the technology now available. MIT OpenCourseWare being the premier example of the notion of free courses supported by the technology for distribution.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s lots more to say, but that&#8217;s it for now.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a graduate student at a large university in the east in the early 1970&#8217;s, Thinking we were reinventing the world we had the experience of starting food co-ops, going to a free store &#8211; take or leave what you want with no charge, and developing or participating in the free university. The [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,705,12],"tags":[436,435,227],"class_list":["post-1459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-searching-and-researching","category-teaching","tag-free-university","tag-open-courseware","tag-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1461,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions\/1461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}