Jane Park at Creative Commons notes that the Data.gov.uk is licensing its data CC BY. From the post:
We at CC are thrilled by this new development and congratulate the UK for this move. Though we are confident that this shift will increase the UK’s capacity to foster reuse, collaboration, and innovation in government and the world…
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, copy right, copyright, creative commons, openness, policy
Jennifer Howard at The Chronicle of Higher Education: Wired Campus is reporting on a proposed sustainability for the repository arXiv. From the post:
It costs Cornell about $400,000 a year to maintain arXiv, according to Anne R. Kenney, university librarian at Cornell. The library’s annual budget runs in the $40- to $50-million range. Some 200 institutions account for about 75 percent of the download traffic on arXiv, and it’s that group that Cornell hopes will pony up first.
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Tagged higher education, journal, library, open content, openness, sustainability
Jon Mott has a new post on supporting both institutions and openness. From the post:
We can embrace openness *and* remain ardent supporters of our institutions. Indeed, institutions of higher learning have been the primary source of intellectual and cultural openness throughout history.
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Tagged higher education, Open Education, openness, policy
Karen Fasimpaur has another post on “open source” textbooks. From the post (quoting the Request for Offer):
A state-developed open-source textbook is the property of the state. The COE shall provide a license to each public school in the state, including a school district, and open enrollment charter school, and a state or local agency educating students in any grade from prekindergarten through high school, to use and reproduce a state-developed open source textbook.
A Kaltura press release is announcing a video extension for Moodle. From the post:
Using the Kaltura video extension for Moodle, teachers can upload and manage rich-media content, such as full lectures in an online course; students can then post video comments, ask questions and create a face-to-face discussion recorded directly from their webcam or other sources.
Thanks to Stephen Downes for the link.
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Tagged e-learning, online learning, open source, openness
Alison Damast at BusinessWeek has written an article on the University of the People. The article provides an update on how things are going since launching. From the article:
Meanwhile, the school is still trying to find the money it needs to keep operating. Reshef has donated $1 million of his money, but the school needs to raise an additional $5 million to keep running. He says he hopes to get the money through grants, foundations, and private donations. Although the school is run mostly by volunteers, it needs to cover the salaries of a small group of student support staff and classroom instructors. Plus, it needs to raise money for an advertising and marketing campaign.
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Tagged e-learning, online learning, open content, Open Education, open learning
BestOnlineMastersDegrees.com has posted 50 tools for finding OpenCourseWare. Thanks to Daniel Hudson for the link.
Kathleen J. Sullivan has written an article on a new program at Stanford that allows students to publish their dissertation digitally. From the article:
Most of the Stanford graduate students who uploaded their dissertations – 47 out of 60 – chose to display their dissertations in their entirety.
Most of the students – 52 out of 60 – selected the “attribution non-commercial” license from Creative Commons.
The article does note that some placed embargoes on the publication, presumably to maintain options for publication in peer-reviewed journals.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, journal, library, OATP.new, online learning, open access, open content
The Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources has a new post pointing out a new documentation module in Connexions. The module covers how to author Connexions content in Microsoft Word.
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Tagged Connexions, e-learning, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Stian Haklev has a new post on a talk given at Indira Gandhi National Open University. From the post:
I focused on three areas: The purposes of OER, the value of openness, and the Peer2Peer University.
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Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
