KarenC at OLNet notes that the Beyond Borders Open Education Conference will be taking place at Oxford Apr. 20, 2010. The conference will discuss many of the issues typical to open education (sustainability, legal, etc.).
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Beyond Borders Open Education Conference
Posted in Open Education
Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, Open Education
Top 10 P2P Trends
Michael Bauwens at P2P Foundation has posted his top 10 P2P trends from 2009. From the post:
I don’t think there is any doubt that there have been great strides forward for open access publishing, open access to government data, and other, multiple initiatives towards more transparency and participation. The new social demands are exerting pressure on institutions, and getting results.
Open Access in Review
Sean Connin has published an overview of open access. From the post:
In fact, many journals are offered only in subscription packages that force an institution to pay for accessory materials which may be of little interest to their community. Ideally, OA publications alleviate these costs and inefficiencies for libraries and their users.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged higher education, library, OATP, OATP.new, open access
Second Round of Obama Administration Open Access Forum
Earlier this month OEN reported that the Obama administration was looking for comments on open access policy. Gavin Baker at Open Access News is reporting that the second phase of that request is now beginning.
Posted in Open Education
Consolidation at Mellon Foundation
David Wiley notes that the Research in Information Technology Program (RIT) in being merged with the Scholarly Communications Program at the Mellon Foundation. From the post:
The RIT Program at Mellon has been a major funder of open source / open education projects we know and care about, like Zotero, Sakai, Kuali, and Folksemantic. When Hewlett funded content development in open education, Mellon funded software development for open education.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged e-learning, higher education, online learning, Open Education, open source
Using OER and OSS Together
Andrea Bernard has published an article on using open educational resources and open source software in higher education. The article is in the Fall 2009 issue of Open and Libraries Class Journal. From the article:
Many campuses are recognizing the importance of the interplay or overlap between OER and OSS as an important feature for providing high quality teaching and educational experiences that prepare students to be knowledge workers in a knowledge society.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged higher education, Open Education, open source, openness
Using Yahoo! Pipes to Redirect to Openness
“Nick” at RepositoryNews.com has posted on using Yahoo! Pipes to merge repository listings. From the post:
…we have been wrestling with intraLibrary for about two years now to develop a blended repository of Leeds Met’s research output (both Open Access full text and citation only) and Teaching & Learning material (both Open Educational Resources/material for federated access only)…
Posted in Open Education
Tagged commons, library, OATP, open access, openness, repository
Head of Moscow Institute of Open Education Wins Prize
Alexei Semenov, Rector of the Moscow Institute of Open Education in Russia, has won the King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa prize from UNESCO. The prize is $25,000. From the announcement:
Under the leadership of Professor Alexei Semenov, the Moscow Institute of Open Education has provided in-service training to about 30,000 teachers annually for the past 16 years. Prof. Semenov has developed exemplary programmes to enable teachers to include ICT in their work, as well as textbooks and teacher guides used widely in the Russian Federation and other countries.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged e-learning, online learning, Open Education, UNESCO
Shuttleworth Foundation on CC BY
Jane Park at Creative Commons has posted an interview with Karien Bezuidenhout, Chief Operating Officer at the Shuttleworth Foundation. From the post:
Well, I think, to begin with, we were open to the commercial angle because in the greater Shuttleworth group we’re the only nonprofit entity. We’ve got venture capitalists that’s part of the group, so commercial pursuit was normal to us, I think that kind of predisposed us to be open to that. I just don’t think that you can separate out education and commercial use so easily.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged cc, CC licenses, copy right, copyright, creative commons, oer, open content, Open Education, openness, shuttleworth
Open Access Publisher Introduces Usage-Based Author Royalties
Gavin Baker notes that the publisher Sciyo has introduced usage-based author royalties. He notes that it would take 23,500 downloads to offset publishing costs.
