Monthly Archives: April 2010

Matching Values to Copyright

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Larry Lessig has published an article through EDUCAUSE on copyright in education. From the article:

I want to talk about the ecology of creativity in education. What does it look like? What is its business model? What is the ethos of this ecology of creativity? We all write scholarly articles, and we want others to copy and distribute them as broadly as possible. And we don’t get paid when people copy. Educators’ business model is distribution freely. Restrictive distribution is inconsistent with that business model.

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Auto-Captioning For Open Educational Resources

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Tom Caswell has a new post on what advances in auto-captioning mean for open educational resources. From the post:

…it is clear to me that with the explosion of online videos and related rich media, video auto-captioning is a major step forward for the web.

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Pandora’s Box and Open Education

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Michael Feldstein has a new post comparing the disruptions in higher education to Pandora’s box. From the post:

No. I want to be Pandora. I want to do something. I want to open the box. But opening the box is only where the story starts. I see a lot of enthusiasm for changing the education system, and that is good.

Link and commentary by Stephen Downes.

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JISC Higher Ed OER Grant

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JISC is announcing a call for proposals relating to OER for “Higher Education (HE) Institutions funded by HEFCE and Academy Subject Centres.” Proposals are due by June 24.

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Analytics For Open Educational Resources

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David Wiley has a new post asking for analytics software to measure open educational resources. From the post:

For the next two or three years, I think the intersection between openness and data mining / analytics may be the single most interesting space in our field…

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OER Workshop in Brazil

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The OER-Br Project, in partnership with UNESCO, the Ministry of Education, the House of Digital Culture, the OER-Br Community, is organizing a series of workshops in Brazil during April 2010, funded by the Open Society Institute.

Two workshops are planned. On 26th of April, in Brasilia and on 27th of April, in Sao Paulo. You can find here the agenda for the 26th of April workshop. Registration is free and open, and simultaneous translation will be provided.

You can register and check more at the UNESCO “The Impact of ICT in Education” International Conference website.

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Ning Moves to Pay Model

Posted on April 16, 2010 by | 1 Comment

The build-your-own-social-network service Ning has announced it will move to a pay model. Commentary by George Siemens, D’Arcy Norman and Techcrunch. From Norman’s post:

That’s the risk of using a third-party-hosted service. It can disappear or change, and there’s not a thing you can do about it.

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Khan Academy Goes CC BY-SA

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David Wiley has a new post expressing frustration that the Khan Academy, an OER repository, did not have a clear license. Shortly after Wiley’s post the Khan Academy added the CC BY-SA license. From the post:

Khan Academy is a truly amazing educational website. It’s loaded with over 1,000 videos on a wide variety of topics in math, science, and finance. And while all the videos on the site were made by one guy working in his spare time (until just a few months ago), the KA site purportedly receives as much traffic as MIT OCW.

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Copyright Tariff For Canadian Students

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George Siemens has a new post pointing out a proposed tariff for Canadian students. From the post:

As noted in the article, this planned fee would be applied regardless of use of resources. For example, if I’m a student at a Canadian university and all of the resources I use are open source, I would still have to pay the fee.

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Fixing Copyright’s Image Problem

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Jonathan Bailey has a new post on how copyright needs to fix its “public relations problem.” From the post:

…at least from the perception of someone casually surfing the Web, copyright has turned into a war against consumers and is all but an act of tyranny.

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