Steve Vosloo has issued a press release announcing Yoza, a open content mobile library. From the press release:
Yoza’s goal is to get young people reading and writing, and in the ‘book-poor’ but ‘cellphone-rich’ context of South Africa, the phone is a viable complement and sometimes alternative to a printed book.
Thanks to Creative Commons for the link.
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A few days ago OEN pointed out an article by Professor Amy Kinsel, who gave a critique of open education. David Wiley has now posted a response. From the post:
I think it’s a terrible shame that our face-to-face courses end after 15 weeks. Just when you’re finally learning everyone’s personalities and preferences, and students are starting to really master the material, it all ends. In a traditional, physically-bound classroom setting, this may be inescapable. But again, if we step back and critically reimagine teaching and learning in the context of modern technology, there is no a priori reason that courses must work in this manner.
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A variety of open access articles:
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Mark Horner has a new post asking for scientists and mathematicians to help edit open textbooks.
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P2PU has posted a syllabus for a course on adopting open textbooks.
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This week Open Education News reached 2,000 posts. We would like to thank those contributors who help make this site what it is today. We also thank those we aggregate from regularly, like Stephen Downes and Peter Suber. OEN is extremely fortunate to have funding from Open Society Institute and the Shuttleworth Foundation. Without them we would not have made it this far. Above all, we thank you, our readers, for making us a part of your lives.
Jason Hoyt has a new post addressed to researchers about open access. From the post:
We could choose to publish in only Open Access. We could choose to reward tenure for Open Data. We could choose to only reward publications or data that are proven to be reused and make either a marked economic or research impact. Instead, we choose to follow a model that promotes prestige as the primary objective…
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Stephen Downes notes that Mozilla and other groups are looking to create a course for journalists and technologists. From the post:
Each week the course will focus on a different topic, and each week the participants will be joined by a different subject-matter expert from the field of news innovation. The weekly course readings, online participation, and a seminar are expected to require roughly 4-6 hours.
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Steve Wheeler has a new post on the “ivory towers” in higher education crumbling. Though some of the links used are slightly dated, its sentiments may resonate with some readers. From the post:
The bottom line is this: If students find that an important text is protected, or even closed off, due to copyright restrictions (or even, perish the thought, pay walls), they will simply go elsewhere.
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Timothy Vollmer has posted an interview with DeLaina Tonks, the Director of the Open High School of Utah. From the post:
We have discovered that the most effective way to ensure standards alignment is to use them as the organizing principle or framework for the course. Teachers can then gather existing OER materials, organize them accordingly and fill in any gaps with teacher created materials. The greatest challenge our curriculum writers face is wading through the available OER and determining which content to use in order to create a cohesive course.
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