Karin Fischer and Ian Wilhelm are reporting on a recent panel discussion regarding the future of higher education. From the article:
On the first point, he said, higher education has always been international, but in the future, there will be a growing number of universities or consortia of universities that compete on a worldwide level for students and faculty.
Also covered by Inside Higher Ed.
Posted in Open Education
Cynthia Harvey has a new post on 50 open source tools for education that rival their proprietary counterparts. From the post:
The educational community has discovered open source tools in a big way. Analysts predict that schools will spend up to $489.9 million on support and services for open source software by 2012, and that only includes charges related to operating systems and learning management systems.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged commons, K-12, Open Education, open source, openness
Philip Davis has a new post on PLoS and its high impact factor. From the post:
Last week PLoS ONE received its first impact factor — a stunning 4.351. This puts the open access journal in the top 25th percentile of ISI’s “Biology” category, a group of journals that sports a median impact factor of just 1.370.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged higher education, journal, library, open content, openness, research
Sarah Morgano has a new post about her experience at the Digital University Conference. From the post:
I have to admit that prior to my attendance of the Digital University Conference on April 21, 2010, my understanding of “open access” was essentially non-existent. After attending the afternoon panel, A Digital Future?, my grasp of open access and academic publishing started coming into clearer focus.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged higher education, OATP, open access, Open Education, openness
Paul Wood is reporting that the University of Illinois has received a grant for open textbooks. From the article:
The Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs has been awarded a $150,000 grant to establish an initiative that provides open-source textbook access for Illinois students.
Thanks to the Illinois Press Book Blog for the link.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged commons, e-learning, oer, open content, open textbook, open textbooks, policy
Dave Cormier has a new post on community as curriculum. From the post:
We are the learning. We learn from each other, through each other, from each other’s learning, from our ideas, our shared and unshared contexts and, maybe more importantly, we learn to continue to do this…
Thanks to Åse Lundblad for the link.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged commons, e-learning, online learning, open content, Open Education, open learning, open-teaching
Last week OEN reported on a PLoS iPad application. The developer, Tom Brow, has a new post giving more information about the app. From the post:
I’ll get to my point, which is that open access publishers — particularly ones who work with CC-BY and RSS — make it terrifically easy to realize one’s own notion of how articles ought to be read.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged commons, higher education, OATP, open access, open content
Steve Wheeler has a new post on giving content away for free. From the post:
Look, as altruistic as it may seem to give away all your content, ideas, lecture notes, videos, slides and even articles and books, for those who actually opt to do so, there are also excellent rewards.
Thanks to Clare Fenwick for the link.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged commons, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
Jason Fitzpatrick is reporting that Flickr is now allowing users to offer their photos for license. While Flickr has permitted users to license their photos on the site with a Creative Commons license for some time, this new option to retain copyright but accept purchases may change the dynamic of the site. From the post:
When someone requests to license your photo a Getty editor will contact you and help you arrange the terms of the license and the fee.
Thanks to Stephen Downes for the link.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged CC licenses, commons, copy right, copyright, oer, open content, openness, public domain
Neil Butcher with OER Africa has posted an “OER Dossier,” an introduction to OER for higher education institutions. From the document:
Although some people confidently predict the demise of all old forms of information production because of shortlived social trends, it is more likely there will be winners and losers, with many publishers and other similar agencies reinventing themselves, continuing to provide valuable products and services, and running successful businesses.
Thanks to Olaf Elch for the link.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, creative commons, e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education
