George Siemens has a new post on critiques of the EduFutures open course. From the post:
As a rule, I try to surface conflict and critique that relates to the education technology field and in particular, my own work. Critique and dissent, in spite of the sting, are great learning opportunities.
Dave Cormier also addresses the critiques.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged e-learning, online learning, Open Education, open learning, open-teaching
ResourceShelf has a new post on how to receive e-mail alerts from Google Scholar.
Moodle News has a new post providing a short list of where open Moodle courses might be found.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, Open Education
John Morgan has posted an article on a recent letter of support from some higher education institutions. From the post:
…provosts and presidents from 27 public and private research universities have written an open letter, released by Harvard University provost Steven Hyman, in support of the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA).
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Scott Leslie has a new post on his OLNet fellowship on OER reuse. From the post:
So my proposal is to research the myriad different ways this kind of usage tracking can be implemented specifically in the context of OER (with a high sensitivity to finding approaches conducive to freedom and not any sense of ‘restriction’), select one and implement it in my real world repository.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education
Ethan Zuckerman has a new post on the implications of openness. From the post:
It’s peculiar that higher ed has been less effected by openness than other information-rich industries. (Entertainment, for instance, has been wholly transformed.) The frontier for openness in higher education is open educational resources, which can be customized, localized, translated and generally transformed in ways that are useful for different audiences.
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Tagged higher education, oer, open access, open content, Open Education, openness
The Study of Open Access Publishing (SOAP) has posted a survey through Surveymonkey. The survey is supposed to take about 10-15 minutes to complete.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged higher education, OATP, open access, openness, research
Barbara Fister has a new post analyzing a recent letter by publishers opposing upcoming open access legislation. From the post:
Does the group think anyone will fall for these scare tactics again? I grant that administering the peer review process is not without cost, but there’s a lot of open access research that is just as rigorously peer reviewed as the publications of these societies.
Heather Morrison, The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, also has a related post.
The National Science Foundation is announcing that it will soon begin requiring a data management plan with each grant. From the announcement:
“This is the first step in what will be a more comprehensive approach to data policy,” added Cora Marrett, NSF acting deputy director. “It will address the need for data from publicly-funded research to be made public.”
Posted in Open Education
Tagged higher education, open content, open data, openness, research
Gráinne Conole has post an invitation to participate in a consultation on open educational resources. From the invitation:
We have collected 58 case studies of OER initiatives and from these abstracted a set of associated Open Educational Practices (OEPs). Open Educational Practices are defined as the set of activities and support around the creation, use and repurposing of Open Educational Resources.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education
