David Wiley has a new post discussing data mining at the Open High School of Utah. From the post:
My main research group at BYU is spending most of its time these days on educational data mining and applying / developing visualization techniques (including “dashboards”). We’ve taken to calling the coupling of openness with real data the “peanut butter cup” model, because openness and data really are two great tastes that taste great together.
Several people have noted Big Blue Button webconferencing software. The software is open source and available through Google Code.
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Tagged conference, e-learning, higher education, K-12, online learning, open source, openness
Kent Anderson has a new post criticizing open access proponents for not being open to criticism. From the post:
It’s ironic, isn’t it? The topic is open access, which holds as a fundamental tenet that open access to information is vital to progress, yet these few proponents of open access apparently won’t engage in open dialog.
Tony Hirst has a new post on a proposed Open University Digipedia. From the post:
The Digipedia pilot will be a web resource containing authoritative information on the digital content lifecycle that will be the focus of a community of practice for policy makers and practitioners in the field. The Open University, as a major publisher and licensee of digital content in the not-for-profit sector, has a wealth of institutional knowledge that the investigators can draw on and is well placed to contribute to this community.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Jan Erik Frantsvåg has published an article in First Monday on the role of advertising in open access journals. From the abstract:
A survey was carried out to explore the field, both why journals did not employ advertising, and how advertising was employed. The findings show little uptake of advertising among OA journals, and indicate that there is a lack of understanding of how advertising could best be employed.
Brian Stetler has a new post on the U.S. government crowdsourcing uploads of public domain videos. From the article:
The government’s 10-year broadband plan, to be submitted to Congress this week, will include a vision for Video.gov, a proposed home for video from federal agencies. The proposal is sure to be cheered by people who want the government to put more materials online.
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Tagged commons, oer, open content, openness, policy, public domain
Brian Lamb has a new post on curation as it applies to learning. From the post:
Indeed, if an emerging open educational resources network starts to build something like a shared infrastructure of learning content, the role of somebody working so that learners don’t ‘already know what they are going to get’ becomes all the more vital. The homogenized alternative is too horrifying to contemplate, all too easy to imagine.
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Tagged commons, e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content
Leigh Blackall has a new post wondering whether Wikiversity is in trouble. From the post:
In that discussion Jimmy [Wales] has called on Wikiversity to set up stronger policies for deterring what he sees as “trolls, breaching experiments (experiments designed to test the strength of Wiki policies), and attacks on Wikipedians”.
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Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness, Wikipedia
Philipp Schmidt has a new post listing the winners of Mozilla’s recent Jetpack contest. Jetpack is a framework for building Firefox extensions. From the post:
After 3 months of hacking Jetpacks, debugging code, refining user experiences, and having a good ol’ time with teams from all over the world, the Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge is sadly coming to an end. In the same spirit of sharing and collaboration that has made this project so much fun, we couldn’t decide on just one overall winner, and decided three projects should get a special prize.
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Tagged e-learning, Mozilla, online learning, open source, openness
Michael Feldstein has a new post explaining the Sakai Product Council. From the post:
Convening for the first time at last summer’s Sakai conference, the PC’s function is about 90% coordination and 10% governance. First and foremost, our goal has been to take existing documentation on project standards that came about through previous community efforts, place them in a framework of a project life cycle, work with current project owners to help them apply those standards appropriately to their particular work, and then feed the lessons learned back to the community in the form of better documentation.
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Tagged e-learning, oer, online learning, Open Education, openness
