“cel4145″ has a new post on open textbook sustainability. From the post:
While open textbook authors could argue the importance of their work by demonstrating impact (e.g., how widely a text is used), additional ethos will be gained by publishing in academic presses, journals, or otherwise peer-reviewed publications, or even through well-respected commercial publishers.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged oer, open content, Open Education, open textbook, open textbooks, openness
Stephen Downes announces the beginning of the open couse PLENK 2010. From the post:
We officially start our course, Personal Learning Environments, Networks and Knowledge, on Monday, and as always it means a flurry of new resources.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged e-learning, online learning, open content, open course, Open Education, open learning, open-teaching, openness
Andreas Meiszner has posted slides on a presentation about open educational services.
Timothy Vollmer has a new post summarizing instances when the U.S. Department of Education mentions open educational resources.
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Tagged higher education, K-12, oer, open content, Open Education, openness, policy
Timothy Vollmer has a new post addressing the question: Do Open Educational Resources increase efficiency? From the post:
OER can increase efficiency when materials are published under a license that permits the creation of derivative works (all Creative Commons licenses that do not contain the NoDerivaties (ND) condition allow this).
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Stephen Downes notes that an open seminar on the “.edu Bust?” has just begun. From the “About” page:
For those who haven’t participated in this sort of thing before, it’s designed to be very flexible. Feel free to choose which resources to read and not read. This site includes a discussion forum and a place for blogs, but if you blog somewhere else, by all means blog there, or post to twitter, or tag resources in delicious or diigo, or whatever works for you.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Nina Paley has a new post discussing whether the NC clause in some Creative Commons licenses is a good idea. From the post:
Venerable author Cory Doctorow and I engaged in a friendly email debate this Summer, with the intention of sharing it to illuminate some issues confronting Free Culture and Creative Commons licenses.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, copy right, copyright, creative commons, openness, public domain
Douglas Walker has a new post listing 50 OCW courses on teaching with technology.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education
Glyn Moody has a new post discussing Civic Commons. From the post:
Government entities at all levels face substantial and similiar IT challenges, but today, each must take them on independently. Why can’t they share their technology, eliminating redundancy, fostering innovation, and cutting costs?
David Kernohan has posted a new video portraying a sort of apocalyptic scenario for the future of open educational resources. From the post:
Predicting the future is not the kind of thing I generally enjoy. I feel that I understand the present and the recent past so poorly that anything I could come up with is based more a hunch than the result of any proper analysis of trends and patterns. Unlike other future gazers, I admit this,
Thanks to Annalisa Manca.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open learning, openness
