Philippe Colombet is announcing a partnership (that is actual partnership, not a buy-out) with the National Library of the Netherlands. From the post:
We’ll be scanning more than 160,000 of its public domain books, and making this collection available globally via Google Books. The library will receive copies of the scans so that they can also be viewed via the library’s website.
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Tagged commons, copy right, copyright, Internet, library, open content, openness, public domain
Doug Clow has posted his interview with Scott Leslie on the “educator as DJ.” From the interview:
Our challenge with ubiquitous access, we bring real value, but not to insist ours is the only view. Here’s a path we’re showing you, but there are tendrils that go off- expose them, show you.
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Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
Brian Lamb has a new post on the state of the wiki in higher education. Since wikis are often used in open education projects, the post may be of interest to readers. From the post:
There is obvious value to wikis as part of an online toolkit, especially for the creation of open content.
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Tagged higher education, Internet, Open Education, openness, Wikipedia
Dalas Verdugo posted on the Vimeo blog announcing the decision to allow CC-licensed material. Grant Crowell posts on the advantages and disadvantages of the decision.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, creative commons, open content, openness
Alan Levine has a new post requesting more stories of educators sharing. From the post;
It’s pretty simple, we are looking for short videos of people telling a story of something un-expected, surprising, or just plain highly coincidental that happened to them just because they shared something openly on the net.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Emma Barnett is reporting that the video-sharing site Vimeo is giving uploaders the option to use a Creative Commons license. From the post:
There are six Creative Commons licences to choose from, which will help artists better define the specific usage rights that allow other to use, distribute and make derivative works from their original videos.
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Tagged e-learning, oer, online learning, open content, openness
Tony Bates has a new post discussing a recent article by John Hilton III on opening courses. From the post:
I think the idea of opening up classes to non-registered students is a good one, but not just making them relatively ‘outside’ participants of a class designed deliberately for face-to-face teaching. Wouldn’t it be more logical to open up classes deliberately designed for distance delivery to non-registered participants, and design them carefully for joint use?
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Tagged higher education, online learning, open content, Open Education, open learning, open-teaching, openness
Mike Masnick has a new post noting that Creative Commons founder Larry Lessig is challenging ASCAP to a debate after the organization made negative comments about Creative Commons. From the post:
So here’s my challenge, ASCAP President Paul Williams: Let’s address our differences the way decent souls do. In a debate. I’m a big fan of yours, and If you’ll grant me the permission, I’d even be willing to sing one of your songs (or not) if you’ll accept my challenge of a debate.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, copy right, copyright, creative commons, open content, openness
KarenC has a new post on OLNet-TESSA Fellowships. From the post:
OLnet is working in partnership with the Teacher Education in Sub Saharan Africa (TESSA – see www.tessafrica.net) project to offer four Fellowships.
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Tagged e-learning, online learning, open content, Open Education, sustainability
Eric Kansa and Sarah Whitcher Kansa have a new post on the project Open Context. From the post:
Open Context is a free, open access resource for the electronic publication of primary field research from archaeology and related disciplines. We developed it to help scholars and students to easily find and reuse field science data and media.
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Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, research
