Richard Poynder has a new post about measuring gold open access. From the post:
In short, the OA movement really needs to abandon its fixation on counting journals and concentrate on papers.
Thanks to Gavin Baker at Open Access News for the link and summary.
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Tagged higher education, journal, library, OATP, open access
Joe Brockmeier has posted on a new license – The Unlicense. The Unlicense is a software license that waives all copyright. From the post:
The Unlicense is a very short (four paragraphs, not counting a link back to the site for the original text) license that states the software is released into the public domain, and that anyone is free to use it for any purpose.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, copy right, copyright, open source, openness
Christian Olson has tweeted about the Innovative Instruction Competition at Brigham Young University. The contest is of note to OEN readers as it requires participants to use an open license. One minute video explanation. Submission requirements. From the Open Content Tutorial:
The purpose of the open content guidelines is to insure that we can share our innovative solutions to difficult instructional problems as widely as possible without violating copyright law.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education
Michael Feldstein has a new post suggesting ways to learn more about Sakai. From the post:
Transparency is a highly underrated virtue that often gets lost in conversations about openness. If you have the theoretical right to influence the direction of an open project, but you can’t practically exercise that right because you don’t know what the heck is going on (never mind why it is going on), then the value of openness to you is diminished greatly.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, online learning, Open Education, open source, openness
Michael Paskevicius has a new post discussing the difference between e-learning and open educational resources. From the post:
OER should not replace e-learning as a term similarly rife with ambiguity. It is tempting to create electronic resources and label them OER, but in fact OER extends well beyond the realm of simply ‘electronic’ resources.
Karen Fasimpaur has a new post on mass collaboration, perception of quality and open educational resources. From the post:
What I would request is this: If you are rejecting the value of open educational resources on the basis of quality, examine the development and quality assurance process involved to see how it measures up.
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Tagged K-12, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, open textbook, open textbooks
Melissa Reeder at Creative Commons is announcing the end of their fund-raising campaign. According to Reeder, Creative Commons has raised $533,898.68. From the post:
While this number is larger than it ever has been before, it is still relatively tiny compared to the scope and breadth of Creative Commons and the number of users and CC licenses (over a quarter of a billion) that currently exist in the world. We’re hoping to see this gap narrow as Creative Commons becomes more self-sustaining, with our users and supporters giving enough back to the organization to support our core operations.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, copy right, copyright, creative commons, openness
“dwasifar” has a new post accusing another website of using their Creative Commons content and refusing to give attribution. From the post:
So I sent him email saying, look, this stuff is CC licensed, all you need to do is add attribution and everything will be fine. After sending that, I starting getting tired of the whole thing. I figured, screw it; these tutorials are meant to help people, and even if he is a jerk, his derivative work is helping spread the information. So I sent him a second email telling him I was letting it go and he had permission to use the work.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, copy right, creative commons, open content, openness
In 2008, the total number of Chinese Quality OpenCourseWare (CQOCW) made available online exceed 1,800 at the national level, 5,000 at the provincial level and 10,000 at the university level. “elpida” has a new post at OLNet on open educational resources in China. From the post:
In 2008, the total number of Chinese Quality OpenCourseWare (CQOCW) made available online exceed 1,800 at the national level, 5,000 at the provincial level and 10,000 at the university level.
Note: The broken link should be fixed now. Sorry for the mistake.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education
Gavin Baker at Open Access News is reporting on an editorial in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. The editorial argues that open access may mean even more pressure on academics to publish. From the post:
The pressure to publish – publish or perish takes on a different meaning – which is implicit in the idea of open access, does not only apply to authors, but also to editors and publishers, and they are subject to this pressure in more than just one sense.
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Tagged higher education, journal, library, OATP, open access
