- The Google Books blog shares its experience digitizing Latin American works with the University of Texas.
- Alix Vance writes on Google Books Terms of Service and how they may be designed to blunt Microsoft efforts.
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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Google Book Settlement News 2/11/2010
Posted in Open Education
Tagged fair use, google, Google's Settlement, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, policy, public domain
Moodlerooms Raises $450,000
TechJournal South is reporting that Moodlerooms, a learning management system based on Moodle, has raised $450,000.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged e-learning, higher education, moodle, online learning, open source
Flat World Knowledge Updates Website
Flat World Knowledge, an open textbook publisher, has launched a revision of their website. Thanks to YupGrade for the link.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged oer, open content, Open Education, open textbook, open textbooks
Open Educational Resources Center for California Launches
Several bloggers and tweeters has pointed out the launch of Open Educational Resources Center for California. The site is portal to OER repositories and information. The Chronicle of Higher Education has a post with more information.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged commons, e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Commencement From DIY U
“dpacheco” has a new post on informal learning and the future of education. From the post:
Everyone explores, virtually and actually. Everyone contributes something unique. Everyone learns. This is the essence of the DIY U idea. It takes us back to the basics—the universitas (guild) and the collegium (community). People everywhere will have a greater ability to create their own learning communities and experiences within and outside institutions. This is happening now and will inevitably happen even more in the future.
Note: As noted in the comments, the user “dpacheco” posted the excerpt, but the author is Anya Kamenetz. OEN regrets the miscommunication.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open accreditation, open content, Open Education, open-teaching
Behold, a Search Engine for CC-Licensed Flickr Photos
The Behold search engine allows visitors to find Flickr photos using a Creative Commons license. The interface is straightforward, though testing showed that some search results were fully copyrighted. Flickr itself has its own search engine for CC licensed material.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged CC licenses, copy right, copyright, creative commons, oer, open content, openness
India Leading in Open Education?
Elpida Makriyanni has a new post asking whether India can be a leader in open education. From the post:
Despite these challenges, India has one of the largest higher education systems in the world, with 311 universities, 15,600 colleges and 2.5 million graduates on an annual basis. In addition, universities in India are increasingly embracing online learning as a means to enhance access to quality higher education opportunities.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, open learning
Reasons to Love Open Educational Resources
Jim Fruchterman has a new post on why he loves open educational resources. From the post:
Before you go all worried on me, I want to assure you that MIT is not going to go out of business anytime soon. Or the big textbook publishers. But, for those people who can’t afford these educational resources opportunities (or get into MIT, for that matter), these options create a new floor for what every person on this planet can have for free.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, Open Education, open learning, openness
The Next Tool for Interactive Educational Software
Doug Holton has a new post in which he explores various tools and programming languages that have been used for education applications. Holton considers what the next best tool might be. From the post:
Since Oracle bought out Sun, and there is no support nor any planned support for java on the android and iphone platforms, it appears the only open source alternative for the future of RIA apps may be HTML5.
Commentary by Stephen Downes.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged commons, e-learning, higher education, K-12, online learning, open source, openness
Examining Peer Review
Cameron Neylon has written a post on the problems of peer review. From the post:
Whatever value it might have we largely throw away. Few journals make referee’s reports available, virtually none track the changes made in response to referee’s comments enabling a reader to make their own judgement as to whether a paper was improved or made worse. Referees get no public credit for good work, and no public opprobrium for poor or even malicious work. And in most cases a paper rejected from one journal starts completely afresh when submitted to a new journal, the work of the previous referees simply thrown out of the window.
Commentary and link provided by Glyn Moody.
