Martin Weller has a new post on a recent report about OER that was packaged well. From the post:
ith almost no shame I am going to mention affordances – a nice glossy book affords you picking it up and looking through it, it extends an invite to you.
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Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education
Timothy Vollmer has posted an interview with Linda Wallinger and Lan Neugent, both of whom work for the state of Virginia and have done work on open textbooks. From the interview:
Traditional textbooks have served us well, especially for me as a beginning teacher, because the textbook was the curriculum. The concept of looking at different ways to deliver textbooks could be as simple as putting it online or making it able to be viewed on an iPad or similar device.
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Tagged e-learning, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, open textbook, open textbooks
Stephen Downes has posted video of a panel discussion on open educational resources.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, copy right, copyright, oer, Open Education
Mohammad Hanief Bhat has published a review of open access repositories. From the article:
The body of work on different facets of OA repositories is enormous. The literature review reveals that issues include OA advocacy, apprehensions, author attitudes, operations, deployment, and copyright and preservation issues.
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Tagged higher education, journal, library, OATP, open access
Jane Park has a new post pointing out that the Australian government is using CC BY. From the post:
Earlier this month, the Australian federal government issued an official response to the Government 2.0 Taskforce report which recommended, among other things, that Australian Public Sector Information (PSI) should be released under CC BY as default.
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Tagged copy right, copyright, open content, openness, policy
Ivy Anderson has posted “model” language for author’s rights in library content licenses. From the post:
Authors of scholarly work also increasingly wish to retain significant rights in the work that they produce rather than transferring all such rights to an external publisher.
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Tagged higher education, journal, library, OATP, open access, policy
Cathy Anderson has a new post exploring what openness means to various organizations. From the post:
Open Education Resources, Open Knowledge, Open Textbooks, Open Access, Open Source, Open Courseware, these are all terms that define the revolution in how we access information, who has access, and what we access. This revolution was driving by the technology that underpins the Internet and provides ubiquitous access to the world’s knowledge, information and resources.
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Tagged commons, e-learning, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
Last week MIT OCW released short announcement that it would be moving to Plone, an open source content management system. Plone was also the platform for eduCommons. From the post:
Moving 1,981 courses along with all associated PDFs, images and other resources is going to take some time. For the next few weeks, you won’t see any new courses on OCW, and we won’t have a new feature in this space.
Thanks to Dylan Jay for the link.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, open source
Melissa Reeder has a new post announcing “catalyst grants” from Creative Commons. From the post:
We are investing up to $100,000 (via grants ranging from $1,000-$10,000) to provide seed funding to projects around the world devoted to increasing access and openness.
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Tagged copy right, copyright, creative commons, e-learning, grant, oer, online learning, Open Education, openness
Stephen Downes triggered back-and-forth posting between himself and David Wiley regarding the Noncommercial clause of the Creative Commons license. Links as follows: Downes’ initial post, Wiley’s follow-up 1, Wiley’s follow-up 2.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, copy right, copyright, creative commons, ocw, oer, Open Education, public domain
