Monthly Archives: February 2010

Google Gives Wikimedia $2 Million

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The Wikimedia Foundation is announcing that it has received $2 million from Google. From the announcement:

The two organizations have a long-standing working relationship. Most recently, Google and the Wikimedia Foundation have partnered to support translation of Wikipedia content into key languages with relatively small Wikipedia editions. Google’s Translation Toolkit supports direct online translation of Wikipedia articles, and has been used by Google in Wikipedia translation pilot projects with speakers of Arabic, Hindi, and Swahili.

Also, a 30 minute audio interview with Jimmy Wales.

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P2P U Goes Into Second Phase

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Jane Park at Creative Commons is reporting that Peer-2-Peer University is beginning its second phase. From the post:

Due to high demand, P2PU has doubled its course offerings for the second round.

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Google Book Settlement News 2/19/2010

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Quality Control at Connexions

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Natalie at the Connexions blog has a new post on quality control within Connexions. From the post:

At the conference [recent Connexions conference], I repeatedly heard the wish for more quality content, so that instructors would have more choices to mix and match from. The catch, of course, is that we are committed to being open-source, which means we definitely don’t want to prevent any content from being published.

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OpenCourseWare Consortium Panel Recap

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Michael Rowe has a new post recapping a recent OpenCourseWare Consortium panel. From the post:

Neil Butcher (OER Africa, South Africa): Curricular frameworks must drive the development of OER i.e. content is not the focus, content comes after pedagogy

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Moodle to Differentiate Instruction

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Karen Fasimpaur has a new post on how Moodle can be used to differentiate instruction.

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New Dutch OpenCourseWare Available

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Michael Korcuska has tweeted that a new Dutch OpenCourseWare site is now available.

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Open Education Curriculum Board Bill Passes

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Earlier this month OEN reported that a bill was being considered in the state of Virginia to create an Open Education Curriculum Board. That bill has passed. Thanks to eLobbyist VA for the link.

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Peer Review and Openness

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Terry Anderson has a new post responding to criticisms of peer review (Anderson is editor of the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning). From the post:

I appreciate the informal filtering of friends, who email or tweat ideas or postings they know I will read and the more formal aggregation postings from people like Stephen Downes or the Commonwealth of Learning. But these annotations and references are all from a look in the rear view mirror and very rarely result in improvements to the work.

Stephen Downes responds in the comments section and on his blog.

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Google Book Settlement News 2/18/2010

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  • IPWatchdog on a patent filed by Google concerning copyright enforcement based on location.
  • Techcrunch on why the settlement should matter to the technology sector.

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