WikiEducator is announcing a project amongst “OER Foundation, the OpenCourseWare Consortium, Creative Commoners and OER practitioners.” From the project page:
The project focuses on the unique needs and context of the education sector and will provide educationally relevant advice on the implications of licensing choices with regards to promoting reuse, aggregation and sustainable growth…
Posted in Open Education
Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, open licensing, openness
Rebecca Fernandez has a new post asking a provocative question: “Can hierarchy and sharing exist?” From the post:
I’d love to tell you that the answer to my original question is “yes, they can co-exist.” But I’m not so sure that’s possible.
D’Arcy Norman has posted a video titled “Everything is a Remix.” The video addresses music specifically, but it could be applicable to open education.
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Tagged commons, copy right, copyright, open content, openness, public domain
George Siemens has a new post on his thoughts about open courses. From the post:
Give it a few more years and you’ll be able to access “click-button” hosted open courses, stripping away the technical constraints that currently exist.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, mooc, online learning, open courses, open learning, open-teaching, openness
Stian Haklev has now posted his MA thesis on open educational resources in China. From the post:
This is what I have been working on for the past two years. It’s been an incredibly interesting, and at times very frustrating journey. Almost nothing of what I believed at the outset, turned out to be the case, and I had to update my research questions many times.
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Tagged commons, e-learning, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
Steve Kolowich is reporting on open source lecture capturing Matterhorn 1.0. From the post:
Matterhorn, by contrast, is free — nominally, at least. Developed over 16 months by an international alliance of institutions with foundation grants, and released several weeks ago, Matterhorn was designed as an alternative to proprietary, out-of-the-box lecture capture products, whose yearly licensing fees can be in the tens of thousands of dollars.
Thanks to Stephen Downes for the link.
GlobalHigherEd has a new post arguing that college ranking data should be open. From the post:
Keep it mind that the data is provided for free, though in the end it is a cost primarily borne by the taxpayer (for most universities are public). It is the taxpayer that pays the majority of the administrators’ salaries to enable them to compile the data and submit it to the rankers.
Jane Park has a new post announcing that the Creative Commons Case Studies Wiki has been cleaned up. From the post:
Through the CC wiki, we attempted to capture the diversity of CC creators and content by building a resource that inspires new works and informs free culture.
Information World Review has a new post on a keynote from Steve Harnad on open access. From the post:
The professor from the University of Southampton’s School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS), will be reporting on metrics to evaluate the impact of peer-reviewed research papers, at two conferences in Europe in ten days.
Thanks to Science Intelligence and InfoPros for the link.
Ruth Suehle has a new post discussing marketing efforts among open source/content projects. From the post:
Marketing is typically done in a room of people who are removed from those who develop the things they’re marketing. Open marketing (not obscured marketing!) is about turning that paradigm upside-down and doing marketing as openly as development.
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Tagged ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, open marketing, openness, sustainability
