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Herrera, Linda; Peters, Michael A. – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2011
The year 2010 was named the Year of Social Media, a technology of communication and for creating and exchanging "User Generated Content". The year 2010 also marked the start of the Arab revolts where, in Tunisia and Egypt, social media served as a critical platform for expressing dissent, organizing, and providing citizen media accounts…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Education, Social Networks, Internet
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Peters, Michael A. – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2009
Openness as a complex code word for a variety of digital trends and movements has emerged as an alternative mode of "social production" based on the growing and overlapping complexities of open source, open access, open archiving, open publishing, and open science. This paper argues that the openness movement with its reinforcing structure of…
Descriptors: Open Education, Global Approach, Research Universities, Open Universities