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Thursday, Feb. 18, 11:15 a.m., Cissy McDaniel Parker Dean's Conference Room, SZB 238. Building on Thomas Friedman's book "The World is Flat," Dr.

Curt Bonk (Indiana University) offers an intriguing look at ten technology trends which he called educational openers.

When combined, the first letter of each opener spells the acronym "WE-ALL-LEARN." This model helps make sense of the role of various technologies in open education, including open courseware, open-source software, open-access journals, open educational resources and open information communities.

photo / TJ-Blog   Today Mozilla, the open-source software guru, is releasing Firefox 3 at 11am CDT. This isn’t your typical software update — Firefox users tend to be rabid about their love of the browser, and Firefox has been promoting the release of Firefox 3 for several weeks, and its beta has been available for months.

Not only do they have a huge red banner on their website proclaiming “Download Day 2008,” they’re trying to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours.