Heather Morrison has a new post arguing that libraries could save 70% if all journal articles were open access. From the post:
At the PLoS average article processing fee of $1,649 U.S. per article, or BMC average article processing charge of $1,560 U.S., libraries worldwide could fund full open access to the world’s estimated 1.5 million scholarly peer-reviewed journal articles produced every year at less than 30% of current annual global academic library journal expenditures.
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Tagged higher education, journal, library, OATP, open access, openness
Dave Malicke has a new post on getting faculty buy-in for open educational resources. From the post:
So how can we continue pushing forward without sweeping policy changes that encourage the creation and dissemination of OER and how do we break through the mental blocks people build up against OER? Easy. Pleasant persistence.
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Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
Alec Couros has a new post about mentors within his open course. From the post:
I have spent much time contemplating the teaching & learning possibilities of having 120+ volunteers to assist about 17 students (possibly up to 19 before registration is done) and the approximate 6:1 ratio this provides.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open course, openness
Fabiana Kubke tweets about a list of webinars for Open Access Week link posted at WikiEducator.
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Tagged higher education, OATP, open access, open content, openness
Scott Leslie reminds readers that Mozilla Drumbeat will be taking place about the same time as the Open Education Conference 2010. From the post:
As much as I have a strong connection with the Open Ed conference, I must admit I’m pretty stoked about the prospects for the Drumbeat Festival, which promises to be a bit more hands-on and more focused on open *learning* – not just OER or Open Education as envisioned by formal institutions.
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Tagged e-learning, Internet, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, open source, openness
Joi Ito has announced that Esther Wojcicki is the new Vice Chair at Creative Commons in charge of learning. From the post:
“Creative Commons continues to make tremendous strides in enabling openness and innovation in learning,” Wojcicki said. “I’m very happy to focus my experience and expertise on ensuring that high-quality educational materials are made easily and freely available to everyone in the world.”
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, creative commons, ocw, oer, Open Education
Erik Duval has a new post on a mobile application is he working on that will enable users to find research more easily. From the post:
If you participate in research events yourself, then you know that it can often be quite a hectic experience: you’re listening to the speaker, looking at the slides, reading the paper, googling some of the things being mentioned, taking notes, etc.
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Tagged commons, conference, open content, Open Education, openness, research
Timothy Vollmer has posted an interview with Patrick Andrew, Associate Director (Learning & Teaching) at the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University. From the interview:
The power of OER lies in its openness; this gives it great flexibility so that material that we might release in the Moodle based OpenLearn environment can be used on WordPress or Slideshare or YouTube or whatever. What we do at the moment certainly is helping people–oftentimes some of the most disadvantaged–learn.
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Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
Chris Grams has a new post on why he believes organizing along open source principles is important. From the post:
Let me be honest. I’ve never run into a perfect model of the open source way in practice (if you have, please point it out to me!).
George Siemens has posted audio of a conversation between himself, Stephen Downes and Viplav Baxi. Also, Tony Hirst on open course accreditation.
