Giuseppe Valiante is reporting on proposed legislation in Canada and how it might affect college students. From the article:
Critics say the proposed rules could force teachers to pay royalties for using hyperlinks to online articles in e-mails. They also say the changes could force students and teachers to pay for using material that is currently exempt from royalty.
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Tagged commons, e-learning, fair use, higher education, Internet, online learning, policy, public domain
Cathy Anderson tweets about Educah, a web site run by a student who is posting tutorials about whatever he/she is learning. From the “About” page:
Educah is not affiliated with any one college or university. The beauty of the idea is that it doesn’t have to be. All info I post on this site will site appropriate sources, or explain concepts that are free knowledge, like Gaussian elimination. Any examples used to reinforce material will be of my own creation, and not from any textbook/test/quiz what have you.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Victor Yu has posted an interview with Dan Colman, founder of Open Culture. From the post:
…as I cautioned on Open Culture last week, there’s more to getting a rounded education than simply watching lectures.
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Tagged commons, e-learning, higher education, open access, open content, Open Education, openness
George Siemens has a new post reflecting on his experience with open courses. From the post:
In theory, we will be building on the right foundation if we shift our financial investment in education from creating content, and turn it to the learning process (fostering, guiding, directing, interacting).
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, open course, Open Education, openness
Reuven Carlyle has posted a perspective by Amy Kinsel, a professor of History at Shoreline Community College. From the post:
Yet high-quality open-source textbooks don’t exist in many disciplines, particularly in politically-contentious fields like History. Until pedagogically-sound open-source texts are available in our disciplines, faculty like me will continue to assign commercially-published textbooks.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Amy Vernon has posted an interview with staff at Curriki. Thanks to MeFromTree for the link.
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Tagged curriki, K-12, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education
Scott Jaschik is reporting that Rice University Press is shutting down next month. Connexions will remain operational. From the post:
Many supporters of academic publishing had high hopes for the Rice project, which was launched in 2006 with the goal of merging the quality and rigor of scholarly peer review with the convenience and low cost of digital publishing.
Thanks to Publisher Guide for the link.
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Tagged higher education, library, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
Stacey Alexander has posted slides and accompanying audio for a presentation on openness in higher education.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, open accreditation, open content, Open Education, openness, policy
Amber has a new post on some of the questions facing the UK OER programme. From the post:
…the Key Lessons of the evaluation and synthesis report states: “There is a clear model emerging of resources being deposited in a local repository (institutional or subject centre) where trust and community engagement can be built, then surfaced through syndication to general open repositories such as JorumOpen, Merlot, and to third-party sites such as iTunesU, YouTube, flickr, scribd, slideshare”
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, JISC, ocw, oer, online learning
Ruth Suehle has a new post about a way for people to contribute to open source development. From the post:
OpenHatch is a place for developers who want to be involved in open source but don’t know where to start.
