Nathan Yergler is announcing a new page on the Creative Commons wiki about the best practices for OER discoverability. From the post:
Last summer, CC, supported by Open Society Institute, organized a meeting of individuals working with OER repositories and tools to discuss the state of search and discovery for OER. There are many efforts under way looking at this issue, and the purpose of the meeting was to examine how these efforts can be made interoperable.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, creative commons, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education
Peter Schmidt has posted an article reviewing open access publishing, including advantages and disadvantages. From the post:
By offering outlets to scholars who might have difficulty getting their work into established print journals, says Leslie Chan, a senior lecturer in new-media studies at the University of Toronto at Scarborough and associate director of Bioline International, “you are sort of leveling the playing field, letting the content of the research speak for itself.”
Thanks to Alison McNab for the link.
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Tagged higher education, journal, library, OATP, research
Greg DeKoenigsberg has a new post responding to comments made by Mark Guzdial, who argues that open source is hurting computer education. From DeKoenigsberg’s post:
Even though the code is free for anyone to hack on, it can be difficult and intimidating to become an actual contributor to an open source project. Open source projects can benefit greatly from knocking down these barriers, and most have a lot of work to do in this regard.
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Tagged commons, e-learning, higher education, K-12, online learning, open source
Shalin Lihitkar has posted a paper reviewing institutional repositories in India. From the post:
Total 33 Institutional Repositories (IR) was selected and browsed for the present paper. The data related to the institutional repositories have been collected from their respective websites, institutions’ websites and other secondary sources (Opendoar and ROAR website).
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, Internet, journal, library, online learning, openness
Mike Masnick at Techdirt is reporting that the public interest group Public Knowledge has published a statement regarding copyright reform. From the post:
I think it’s great that Public Knowledge is pushing this (with the assistance, apparently, of the Stanford Cyberlaw Clinic and the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at the UC Berkeley School of Law), though of course the chances of this actually getting anywhere seem slim.
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Tagged copy right, copyright, fair use, Open Education, policy, public domain
Michael Erb at the News and Sentinel is reporting that West Virginia University at Parksburg will be offering open textbooks. From the article:
According to the college’s program plan, the project aims to provide “low-cost, open-source textbooks developed by faculty for students in WVU Parkersburg’s first-year experience courses as well as developmental courses in mathematics and English/writing.”
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Tagged higher education, open content, Open Education, open textbook, open textbooks
Marc Perry at The Chronicle of Higher Education is reporting that students are encountering faculty resistance to OpenCourseWare. From the article:
In talking with nearly a dozen professors, Mr. Phinney has heard their concern about violating copyright by making materials available online, about having to censor their remarks, about whether filming lectures will stifle discussion or drive students to skip class, and about running afoul of departmental politics.
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Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, open learning, openness
Jane McEntegart has a new post reporting that Sony Ericsson’s new social platform will allow users to license content they publish through the service with a Creative Commons license. From the post:
AllAboutSymbian reports that at launch, Creations will consist of the web publishing cloud infrastructure and a set of PC and phone based tools to enable community members to modify the content.
Commentary by Steve O’Hear at TechCrunch.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, content, copy right, copyright, creative commons, Internet, open content
David Worth has tweeted about the a new open educational resources directory from the University of Cape Town.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Karen Fasimpaur has a new post on how to auto-create Moodle glossaries. From the post:
Moodle glossaries are great, and there are so many ways to use them. Content can include everything from vocabulary to FAQs to fact-of-the-day to picture story starters.
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Tagged e-learning, online learning, open content, open source
