Russell Stannard has a new post on how open educational resources can help a higher education institution raise its profile. From the post:
It is not as simple as just releasing OER on to the web or in a repository. The real work begins when you try to promote and disseminate the resources.
Thanks for Mick Norman for the link.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education
Plain_Gillian has a new post on defining OER. From the post:
…an OER must be an easily available, freely usable and customizable object or asset which can be used formally or informally to learn.
Thanks to Bruno Weiblen for the link.
The blog Open Access Archevangelism has a new post on deposit mandates vs. permission mandates. From the post:
There was then (and there still is now, two years later), no evidence at all that mandating permission would be more effective in generating Open Access than mandating deposit.
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Tagged higher education, journal, library, OATP, open access, openness
Jill Laster has a new post on OCW Search, an new search engine for OER. From the post:
Polling on the Web site, which went online this week, will determine what courses to add next; those at Stanford University are in the lead, and Mr. Far plans to add them in the next few days.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education
George Siemens has a new post, as part of the open course in education futures, explaining what an open decentralized course means to him. From the post:
Instead of creating a course with readings/content structured fully in advance and with discussions and topics centralized in a learning management system, open decentralized courses allow learners to participate in any forum and format they prefer.
Thanks to Edtech Feeds for the link.
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Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
As a quick note, you can see links in the open access tracking project (OATP) on Tumblr. OEN has used OATP as a valuable resource for open access news.
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Tagged higher education, Internet, journal, library, OATP, OATP.new, open access
Shafeen Charania has a new post about moving to an open accreditation service for education. From the post:
As these “alternate” candidates prove their worth in the market (likely at lower starting salaries as well), I think there will be a groundswell at both ends – hiring managers/recruiters becoming more open-minded, and students becoming more savvy.
Thanks to Marinka Voorhout for the link.
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Tagged e-learning, online learning, open accreditation, open content, Open Education, openness
The Curriki Blog has a new post outlining the topics discussed in a workshop on OER in Istanbul on April 19. From the post:
What I loved about the event was that panelists and audience members had an opportunity to really dig into the challenges OERs present, as well as to come up with a body of policy recommendations that will be submitted to the European Union regarding OERs and the public domain.
Thanks to karsiliksizcek_ for the link.
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Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
Leigh Blackall has a new post giving his thoughts the recent InnovationACT IP panel. From the post:
I was encouraged by someone in the audience asking about the role Creative Commons had in all of it, but dismayed by the general responses from the panel.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, copy right, copyright, creative commons, higher education, open content, openness
Yesterday OEN reported on positive comments by Bill Gates regarding MIT OCW. Additional coverage by The Chronicle of Higher Education and MIT News. A YouTube video of the comments themselves is now available.
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Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
