The Jordan Open Source Association is announcing that ten high schools will be adopting BLOSSOMS curriculum, which is openly licensed. From the post:
BLOSSOMS modules contain multi-segment educational videos to be shown in science and math classes at high school, a teacher in class then presents some interactive educational activities between each BLOSSOMS video segment to the students in class.
Also, an Italian high school is producing its own textbook.
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Tagged CC licenses, commons, K-12, open content, Open Education, openness, policy
Jim Groom has a new post discussing some of the interaction that is occurring on the University of Mary Washington Blogs. From the post:
It’s open education happening on the open web, and it is a by product of a professor and a class creating resources from the work they are already doing in their course.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Mike Linksvayer has a new post on the organization FLOSS Manuals and a new book to be released, titled “Collaborative Futures.” There is also some discussion of license compatibility. From the post:
Initially we thought we’d write much about licenses and other topics much debated by those in the free software and free culture community. After a day of intense discussion of book content and structure, those debates were left in the background as we tackled explaining what kinds of collaboration we intended to write about and speculating about what the future of collaboration holds.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, copy right, copyright, creative commons, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
The web site i, quaid has a new post about the open textbook Practical Open Source Software Engineering book sprint. The book sprint occurred over the weekend. From the post:
As part of the work of giving college/university-level educators the experiences and tools they need to effectively teach participation in free/open source software projects, we’ve been working on a textbook.
Thanks to Open Text Book for the link.
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Tagged higher education, open content, Open Education, open textbook, open textbooks, openness
Tom Caswell has posted an interview with Martha Kanter, U.S. Undersecretary of Education, on open educational resources as part of an OpenCourseWare Consortium newsletter. From the interview:
What better use for OER than making sure that every child, K-12 is going to be college and career ready?
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, K-12, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education
Paul E. Peterson has a new post on the Open High School of Utah. From the post:
Open High might get better even faster if it sacrifices some of its current commitment to open source by simply searching for the best curriculum anywhere. Already, the school pays for their AP courses. I see no reason why other courses might not benefit from accessing a mix of open source and licensed materials. Open source is a great idea, but one needs to remain open to the idea that it does not always produce the very best.
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Tagged e-learning, K-12, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
“Gaz Johnson” has posted slides on what open access means for the Modern Institution.
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Tagged higher education, journal, library, OATP, open access, openness
Jill Laster is reporting that Wikipedia is encouraging video uploads. From the post:
Three nonprofit groups — Miro, Mozilla Drumbeat, and the Open Video Alliance — began a campaign this month with support from the Wikimedia Foundation encouraging users to upload videos onto the Web site. Wikipedia asks that videos be short, under 100MB, and comply with the encyclopedia’s rules.
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Tagged commons, e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, Wikipedia
Steve Harnad has published an article in Prometheus regarding green open access (or the submission of journal articles in an institutional repository). From the article:
This makes their strongest practical implication particularly striking: The 40‐fold benefit/cost ratio of providing Green OA is an order of magnitude greater than all the other potential combinations of alternatives to the status quo analyzed and compared by Houghton et al.
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Tagged commons, higher education, journal, library, OATP, online learning, research
Cable Green has posted a video of Anya Kamenetz discussing alternative education. The Chronicle of Higher Education interviews Kamenetz. From the interview:
A personal learning path is a fancy way of saying that people are going to have choices. It’s already the case that the majority of U.S. college students go to more than one institution during their time getting a bachelor’s degree. And a majority of four-year-college students do at least one internship.
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