Openness on the Internet
Right now I am teaching on an undergraduate course called “Openness on the Internet“. It is a distance course which means that all interaction between me and the students take place online, in our course management system (we use Moodle).
It’s the first time that I am giving this course and I have come to realize that it is really true that you learn when you teach. I knew this stuff before, but now that I’m teaching it something happens and it’s a great feeling to be absorbed in a partly new area of knowledge.
Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig is among the litterature the students are supposed to read. I have also encouraged them to look at the excellent presentation he gave at an Open Source conference in May 2002. The presentation summarizes the message in Free Culture and has a great layout! You can find it here.