Last month OEN reported that Creative Commons founder Larry Lessig was interviewed by 7th graders. Jane Park at Creative Commons has posted an interview with the teacher who arranged the original interview with Lessig. From the post:
Mr. Mayo and his class have integrated CC licensed works into their daily activities, documenting it all at mrmayo.org.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, copy right, copyright, creative commons, K-12, openness
Cornelius Puschmann has a new post on the German open access petition (reported by OEN). From the post:
My opinion (and not just mine) is that Open Access should be treated as the broad societal issue it really is, not just as a nifty way for libraries to save money or researchers to communicate more effectively.
Thanks to Gavin Baker at Open Access News for the link.
VietNamNet Bridge is reporting that Vietnam’s Education and Training Ministry (MoET) is moving to open source. From the article:
According to the draft, all levels from general schools to universities as well as educational agencies will be encouraged to use open-source software to save copyright fees and curb software copyright infringement.
“laurapasquini” has tweeted about a wiki page on mashing up OER. The wiki provides a workflow, list of tools and relevant URLs.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged commons, google, Google's Settlement, policy, public domain
Wytze Koopal has tweeted about the launch of Free Technology Academy. The courses can viewed and taken freely, but teaching support will only be provided to enrolled students. From the announcement:
The Free Technology Academy opens its doors to students. The registration process for the first 2 courses has already started. The courses currently open are “The concepts of Free Software and Open Standards” and “The GNU/Linux Operating System”. These courses will start on January 25th, 2010.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged ocw, oer, online learning, open access, Open Education, open learning
“Michelle” has a new post recapping a recent talk by Martin Weller titled “OER and a Pedagogy of Abundance.” From the post:
Shared exploration and collaboration works well with the “guide on the side” metaphor, where you have subject expert mentors who help create “paths” through the sea of content, providing an intelligent information filter.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged oer, online learning, Open Education, open-teaching, openness
“Linda” has posted a list of the top 50 OpenCourseWare collections. The rankings are apparently not in order of quality, but to type and geographic location.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education
Vicky Woollaston is reporting that the Open University has reached 10 million downloads on iTunes.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged e-learning, open content, open university, openness, OU
Wayne Mackintosh has announced, via mailing list, that WikiEducator and Connexions will be collaborating for greater interoperability. From the e-mail:
Gee — you gotta love open philanthropy! Let’s make OER remix and interoperability futures happen for education.
Thanks to Brian Lamb for the link.
