Terri Bays has a new post summarizing a recent meeting between Hewlett Foundation OER grantees. The Hewlett Foundation has also issued a short press release. From Bays’ post:
In order to achieve scale, Hewlett is looking to develop proof points that can be shown to policy makers as evidence that open educational resources really do help achieve deeper learning. OER Research thus will continue to be a funding priority.
Thanks to Christine Geith for the link.
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Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
Rob Reynolds has a new post on a report about digital textbooks and its projected growth in the next five years. Openness is mentioned briefly, but what the remainder of the report means for open education is left up to the reader. From the post:
The availability of more textbook content in digital format will lead to greater customer demand for customized content, as well as to a proliferation of digital product models by publishers using the same content – chapters, key concepts, topic bundles, etc. This demand for content disaggregation will translate into new revenue models.
Thanks to Shawn J. Miller for the link.
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Tagged e-learning, online learning, open textbook, open textbooks
Sheila Webber has a series of posts providing notes on the Beyond Borders conference at Oxford University. From one of the posts:
the usually-identified culprits (lack of bandwidth, electricity, computers and software) are not really such problems any more. Instead he [Tim Unwin] found challenges were: changes in personnel (when sustained leadership & commitment was needed); funding mechanism diversity; time commitments; and failure to understand “meanings” (e.g. ICT4D is not just about kit).
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Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
The OA Librarian has posted a press release from the Alliance for Taxpayer Access concerning the Federal Research Public Access Act. From the post:
The proposed bill would build on the success of the first U.S. mandate for public access to the published results of publicly funded research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and require federal agencies with annual extramural research budgets of $100 million or more to provide the public with online access to research manuscripts stemming from funded research no later than six months after publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
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Tagged copy right, copyright, higher education, OATP, open access, open content, policy
The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers is announcing its ongoing disagreement with JISC regarding its open access findings. From the post:
We believe this [JISC's findings] seriously understates the contribution of the publishing industry to UK research and makes misleading and incorrect claims about the potential cost benefits of open access.
Commentary and link provided by Stephen Downes.
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Tagged commons, higher education, OATP, open access, openness, research
Stephen Downes notes that the open course on the future of education has begun.
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Tagged e-learning, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Last month OEN reported on the TEDxNYED event in which open education was one of the themes. The videos from that event are now available on YouTube. Thanks to David Wiley for the link.
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Tagged conference, e-learning, higher education, K-12, online learning, Open Education
Wesley Fryer has posted a podcast discussing open educational resources. The podcast is about an hour long.
Erik Duval has a new post with slides showing how to access the repository Ariadne through Moodle. From the post:
Basically, the bridge allows Moodle users to search for Ariadne (and thus GLOBE) content from within their Moodle course.
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Tagged e-learning, oer, online learning, open content, open source, openness
Katie Hafner has written an article about OpenCourseWare and OER for the New York Times. From the article:
If the mission of the university is the creation of knowledge (via research) and the dissemination of knowledge (via teaching and publishing), then it stands to reason that giving that knowledge away fits neatly with that mission.
Thanks to Marina Gorbis for the link.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
