Jimmy Wales has published an article through Forbes India about the spread of information in languages besides English. From the article:
World wide, the number of people speaking English is actually quite small; but for a long time, the people who spoke English and the people who had computers were basically the same people.
Now, the economics have shifted dramatically away from top-down content toward community-created content.
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George Siemens has a new post on Einztein, a website which helps visitors find OER and connect with others using OER. From the post:
More and more of these companies will appear in the near future offering a combination of aggregation of open content, a central place to discover courses, tools to run aggregate courses, discussion forums for learners, and general course management tools (enrolling, sharing with other profs, grading, etc.).
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Jane Park has a new post announcing that Joi Ito, CEO of Creative Commons, will be teaching a journalism course at P2PU. From the post:
If interested, please contact thepeople [at] p2pu.org. To participate in the course remotely via P2PU, you can sign up to apply at www.p2pu.org/journalism. Sign-up is open now and the course will begin on Friday, 4 June.
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Tagged creative commons, oer, open content, Open Education, open learning, open-teaching, openness
DMU Learning Exchanges has a new post on moving towards the democratic university. From the post:
The beauty of these projects, accepting difficulties in licensing, copyright, establishing authorship, overcoming entrenched political positions, and finding ways to engage those with limited power to speak, is their mutuality and their focus on respect, devolved authority and responsibility for governance, creation and sharing.
Thanks to Helen Keegan for the link.
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EDUCAUSE has posted an article on the seven things you should know about open educational resources. From the article:
The resources required to develop high-quality learning materials and activities for a full complement of courses can be prohibitive for many institutions and instructors. By distributing the costs over a larger number of users, OER brings a greater range of tools within reach of more users.
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Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, Open Education
Audrey Watters has a new post reporting on a “course-scheduling tool” called CloudCourse. From the post:
CloudCourse also features approval processes, wait list management, as well as room and user profile information and can be further customized to sync the data with other internal systems.
Thanks to John Paul Montano for the link.
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Gráinne Conole has posted on moving open eduction from a focus on resources to practice. From the post:
…taking someone else’s OER, understanding it, deconstructing it and then recontexualising it is a complex cognitive process.
Thanks to Ulrika Jonson for the link.
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Last week OEN posted on an open letter to the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) to open their research. CGIAR has now posted a response. From the post:
While there are pathways that focus very strongly on open access principles, the scope is not just confined to publications, but a wider set of knowledge assets as well, and how they can be made more available, accessible and applicable. Achieving this objective will take more than just focusing on publishing in open access journals. We need to make concerted efforts to ensure research reaches those who need it.
Glyn Moody has a new post in which he discusses publishers reluctance to support a WIPO treaty. One clause within the treaty would allow the visually impaired greater latitude in converting books to a format that is useable for them. From the post:
You would have thought, then, that the publishers would have been only to happy to grant such a minor, and very tightly-worded exception to people whose lives could be rendered richer and more satisfying by being able a vast range of literature currently unavailable to them.
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Tagged copy right, copyright, open content, open textbook, open textbooks
The International Council for Open and Distance Learning has posted about a future workshop on creating an open university in Nepal. From the post:
A workshop entitled Open and Distance Education in Nepal, to be held 28 May in Houston, Texas, USA, as a part of the NRNA’s 4th Regional Conference, has been organized to bring together prominent academics and institutional thinkers to deliberate the academic, management, and business aspects of creating the OUN [Open University of Nepal].
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