Richard Poynder has a lengthy interview with Jeff Rothenberg on digital preservation. From the interview:
So far as retro-digitisation is concerned, the Report points out that funding is limited and “the quantity of non-digitised material is huge”.
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Tagged commons, e-learning, higher education, Internet, library, oer, online learning, open content, openness, sustainability
“uocunescochair” is announcing a new project to locate and share open educational resources. From the post:
Our goal is to provide an operative, accessible and supported Open Repository to centralize and make available all key OER documents on OER.
Thanks to Stephen Downes for the link.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, Open Education, openness
WikiEducator has begun a page discuss remixing experiments on its site. Thanks to Wayne Mackintosh for the link.
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Tagged creative commons, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness, remix, Wikieducator
Joseph Thibault has a new post addressing the question: “Where are the Good Moodle Courses?” From the post:
Certainly the quality of all courses is not based solely on the quality of the content (as made available through a Moodle backup file).
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, moodle, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Charles Profitt has posted his slides on “Free and Open in Education.”
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Tagged creative commons, e-learning, higher education, online learning, open source, openness
Michael Nielson has a new post about moving towards “open science.” From the post:
The most critical issue however is rapid deployment of expertise to specific problems. To apply a distributed rapid innovation model we need the means to rapidly identify the very limited number of people with appropriate expertise to solve the problem at hand.
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Tagged higher education, open science, openness, research
Keith Hampson has a new post responding to Brian Lamb and Jim Groom’s recent EDUCAUSE Review article on edupunk. From the post:
Open education has taken on a overly simplistic and highly political quality during the past year.
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Tagged e-learning, online learning, Open Education, open learning, openness, policy
Though summer is mostly done, Jonathan Opp gives a list of books relating to openness. From the post:
Some books are new. Some are recent favorites. All offer examples of how the open source way is being employed in areas beyond technology.
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Tagged oer, open content, Open Education, open source, openness
Felipe Ortega has a new post pondering a business model for Creative Commons. From the post:
What does Creative Commons offer? Legal assessment? No. Added-value services to track free content? No. They just offer legal tools to share knowledge adequately. In other words: the licenses. That’s it. Is it valuable? Well, yes of course! Could they do it better? I really think so.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, creative commons, oer, Open Education, sustainability
Jan Philipp Schmidt has a new post on running open courses. From the post:
More students sound like more work, less opportunity to engage with each individual student, and the practicalities of facilitating a diverse group of participants using online technologies seems daunting as well. It turns out that those who try it are often surprised that it’s much more rewarding and easier than they thought.
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Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, open content, open course, Open Education, openness
