Glyn Moody has a new post on how the WikiPremed MCAT sustains itself. From the post:
What’s interesting here is that once again it’s analogue goods that bring in the money, while the digital side does the marketing – a pattern that is emerging in many sectors.
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Tagged education, higher education, ocw, online learning, open content, openness
“psmythe” has posted a short overview of open textbooks. From the post:
Despite the successes in closing the traditional digital divide (access to computer hardware), a new digital divide is opening for a small minority, in terms of their ability to access knowledge (Green & Hannon 2007)
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Tagged commons, oer, open content, Open Education, open textbook, open textbooks, openness
Brandon Muramatsu has posted slides from a recent presentation on automatic lecture transcription.
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Tagged e-learning, online learning, open content, Open Education
Alex Kozak has a new post on the Association of American Publishers against open textbooks. From the post:
The AAP falsely claims that inflation is a main factor in the rise of textbook costs. In fact, according to the Government Accountability Office, the costs of textbooks have increased by twice the rate of inflation.
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Tagged higher education, K-12, oer, open content, open textbook, open textbooks
Antonio Vantaggiato has a new post responding to recent criticism of Moodle (reported by OEN). From the post:
First, when talking about one technology or tool, we must not forget there is always a power struggle behind. If you criticize Moodle, for instance, are you perhaps helping out Blackboard? Yes you are, even if you’re not aware.
Thanks to Stephen Downes for the link. Also, a Moodle for iPhone demo.
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Tagged commons, higher education, Open Education, open source, openness
Chris Grams has a new post on the open manner in which the Wikimedia Foundation conducts its strategic planning. From the post:
I’ve seen strategic planning, but I have never seen strategic planning like this before. Open, transparent discussion. Broad collaboration. Deep analysis, insight, and research from the people who care most and are closest to the issues and challenges being addressed—meritocracy in action.
Matt Jukes has a new post on openness and scholarship activity. From the post:
There are alot of parallels between this activity and many of the ideals of openness that JISC supports across our work. It certainly seems to be close to both the Open Access and Open Education agendas.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, OATP, online learning, open content, Open Education, open university, openness, OU
The Open University has posted a short video celebrating 40 years of television programming.
Judy Baker has tweeted that Adobe has launched OER portals for K-12 and higher education.
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Tagged e-learning, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Mike Linksvayer has a new post providing current statistics on Creative Commons in Flickr. From the post:
With over 10-fold growth, use of all licenses have increased greatly. However, the distribution has also changed, though slowly. Four years ago 78% of CC-licensed images on Flickr were not pre-cleared for commercial use. This has declined by close to 5 percentage points.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, creative commons, open content, Open Education, openness
