Shawn Adderly is reporting on efforts by Google and the Internet Archive to digitize content at the University of Illinois. From the post:
On average, about 500 pages per hour are scanned using two scribe book scanner machines owned by the Internet Archive, which equates to about 15 to 20 volumes being digitized per day.
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Tagged commons, copy right, copyright, higher education, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Rebecca Fernandez has a new post comparing openness to various kinds of Chinese food. From the post:
It’s certainly hard to deny the value of a development model that’s produced innovations like the Philly Cheesesteak egg roll and pastrami fried rice.
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Tagged copy right, copyright, e-learning, oer, online learning, open content, openness
Steve Wheeler has a new post noting that Brian Lamb will be speaking at an Open Educational Resources Symposium in London on July 23. From the post:
Lamb, the Manager of Emerging Technologies and Digital Content at the University of British Columbia’s Office of Learning Technology, is one of the keynote speakers at the symposium alongside Mary Lou Forward, Executive Director of the OpenCourseWare Consortium.
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Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, Open Education, openness
Alan Levine has a new post questioning the need for acronyms like PLNs (Personal Learning Networks) and OER. From the post:
Let me clear that in the case of these Personal Learning Things as well as Open Education Resources, I am total agreement, and support to the concepts they aim to circumscribe…But to me they are things we name that do not really exist.
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Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, open-teaching, openness
Teemu Leinonen has a new post comparing the top articles among Wikipedias of different languages. From the post:
The most hypnotic new thing I found during the WikiSym/Wikimania is probably the Wikipedia article traffic statistics.
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Tagged e-learning, oer, online learning, open content, openness, Wikipedia
Remedios Melero has announced MELIBEA on a SPARC mailing list. MELIBEA is a directory of open access policies. From the post:
As a directory, it describes the existing policies. As a validator, it subjects them to qualitative and quantitative analysis based on fulfilment of a set of indicators…
Note that there are some security certificate issues with the SPARC posting. I am not clear why.
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Tagged higher education, journal, library, OATP, open access, openness, policy
Janneke Adema has a new post on how the public domain is perceived by “digital natives.” From the post:
there is a lack of emphasis on the fact that you can do things with the public domain, the public domain is not only about consuming. The government for instance focuses mostly on the negative aspects, on the “problem of the internet” on the bad things you can do with the internet.
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Tagged higher education, open content, Open Education, openness, policy, public domain
Jonathan Opp has a new post about the “gift economy.” From the post:
Open source communities are often compared to gift economies. You participate. You solve shared problems. Others do the same.
In many ways, you give to get.
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Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, Open Education, openness, sustainability
Glyn Moody has a new post noting that some of Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky’s work is now freely available. Apparently some of the films have been removed because of copyright issues. This example open culture highlights the benefits and struggles of making something open.
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Tagged copy right, copyright, e-learning, online learning, open content, public domain
Mike Linksvayer has a new post announcing that the research institution CERN will be supporting Creative Commons. The amount is unspecified.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, copy right, copyright, creative commons, openness, public domain
