Alex Kozak has a new post providing an update on the search engine DiscoverEd. From the post:
It’s time consuming and difficult to sift through search results for resources that have certain properties you might be interested in, like being appropriate for 9th graders, being under a CC license that allows you to modify the resource and share changes, or being written in English or Spanish, for example. As you throw up your hands in dismay, you might think “Can’t someone do this for me?!”
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Tagged cc, commons, creative commons, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education
Jennifer Howard is reporting that academic journal publisher Spring has launched its own open access journals under the umbrella SpringerOpen. From the article:
…all SpringerOpen journals will be published under a Creative Commons Attribution license, which allows reuse of articles as long as the authors are given credit.
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The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya has posted a video of George Siemens discussing socializing open learning.
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Tagged e-learning, ocw, online learning, open content, open-teaching, openness
Pippa Buchanan has a new post requesting course organizers for P2PU’s School of Webcraft. From the post:
This coming September we’ll be launching our first cycle of six week courses including Introduction to HTML5 and Building Social with the Open Web. We still have space for a few more courses, so whether you can teach a class for novice web developers, or run a workshop for web developers managing thousands of user accounts, we’d love to have you involved.
Thanks to John Robertson for the link.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open accreditation, open content, Open Education, open learning, open-teaching, openness
Lisa M. Krieger has a new article noting, among other things, that U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is praising open educational resources. From the post:
Duncan praised the efforts of Foothill faculty members to use free or low-cost Web-based “open educational resources” as substitutes for costly college textbooks.
Thanks to CCCOER for the link.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, open textbook, open textbooks
Brian Frank has a new post on “learning to be open by default.” From the post:
We need to create examples that are open-by-default from start to finish: assume that everybody can listen, actively provide opportunities for people to do so, actually adapt to new information as it comes in, learn continuously in dynamic social contexts…
Several blogs have noted that the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is asking for money to protect against Creative Commons. A roundup of just a few of the posts: Techdirt, Zeropaid, Chuqui 3.0, Slashdot.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, copy right, copyright, creative commons, openness, policy
Meena Hwang has a new post listing upcoming OpenCourseWare Consortium webinars.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education
Glyn Moody has a new post criticizing the Open University for being too close to Microsoft. From the post:
After all, free software not only already totally dominates areas like supercomputers, the Internet and embedded systems, but is also rapidly gaining market share in key sectors like mobile, so it would obviously make sense to offer plenty of opportunities for students to study and work with the operating system of the future, as well as that of the past.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, online learning, Open Education, open source, openness
elpida has a new post about “sharing learning designs.” From the post:
In spite of high expectations and the support given by prestigious funding and educational institutions, OERs have not been adopted widely by teachers and learners in practice. In the meantime, educational structures are also becoming increasingly complex, multi-dimensional and non-linear requiring experts but also novices to quickly gain different levels of understanding and skills.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
