Henny Swan has a new post on funding the Open Web Alliance Project. From the post:
By creating a curriculum and web craft degree backed by both industry and educators, the Open Web Education Alliance (OWEA) hopes to help produce the graduates that employers need to build slick, usable, accessible and profitable websites.
Thanks to Sylvia Egger for the link.
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John Robertson has a new post on a upcoming CETIS OER Gathering. From the post:
To help structure the day and make sure that the concentrated event is able to focus on what participants are most interested in and the questions the community has in this area, we’d like some feedback from participants and other interested parties.
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Michelle Thorne has a new post on Creative Commons adoption in Australia. From the post:
The Australian licenses already have their first significant adopter, the Australian Parliament.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, copy right, copyright, creative commons, open content
Mike Linksvayer has a new post on P2PU’s efforts to pay for infrastructure. From the post:
It’s absolutely worth looking at Creative Commons licenses as products that serve customers, and without doubt any organization that turns inwards, ignoring what its customers desire from its products is doomed. This isn’t what Creative Commons does
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Lisa Harris et al. have published an article in the most recent edition of In Education. From the article:
The paper will present recommendations for change within higher education to help ensure that universities can remain relevant and add value to learners and employers in the digital age.
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Pieter Kleymeer is announcing the availability of an Open Education Coordinator position. From the post:
Open.Michigan seeks an Open Education Coordinator to engage the campus and its peer institutions on open education and to cultivate a robust community of practitioners in this area, from content producers to instructors to librarians to researchers and beyond. This individual will build a network of like-minded educators on campus, share knowledge and resources with this group, and bring critical needs assessment back to the Open.Michigan and U-M staff in order to improve infrastructure and support for open education activities.
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Tony Hirst has a new post outlining his Open Web Fellowship Proposal. From the post:
The proposal – Uncourse Edu – is just an extension of what it is I spend much of my time doing anyway, as well as an attempt to advocate the approach through living it: trying to see what some of the future consequences of emerging tech might be, and demonstrating them (albeit often in way that feels too technical to most) in a loosely educational context.
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Sir John Daniel has a new post on promoting OER with policy makers. From the post:
The challenge now is to make the wider educational community aware of OERs and their potential for improving the quality and cost-effectiveness of teaching and learning.
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Kristopher Nelson has a new post arguing that Law.gov should be open. From the post:
As an academic legal researcher currently disconnected from a law school, any access to a broader swath of legal information and materials is a win for me personally.
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Tagged commons, open content, openness, policy, public domain
David Wescott has a new post on the need for scientists to share data. From the post:
Scientists share data. It’s what they do. They collect data, analyze it, and then publish it. That’s essentially the entire job. Telling a scientist to stop sharing data is like telling a Red Sox fan to stop chanting “Yankees Suck.” Social media has helped scientists share data faster and more effectively than ever before.
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