Joss Winn has a new post discussing how open education can help sustainability in higher education. From the post:
The main message about sustainability that I tried to push across in the presentation is that for OER and Open Education in general to be sustainable, we need sustainable societies and a sustainable planet.
Link found via Brian Lamb’s Delicious account. That’s right, Brian, I’m watching.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged e-learning, higher education, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness, sustainability
Steve Hitchcock has a new post on EPrints Bazaar, which was debuted at the Repository Fringe meeting. From the post:
A new app store, EPrints Bazaar, that enables users to install repository apps and plugins with a single click, made its debut to great acclaim at the latest Repository Fringe meeting in Edinburgh.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged commons, higher education, OATP, open access, repository
Mark Bush has tweeted a link to slides about evaluating the benefits of open educational resources.
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Tagged higher education, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
David Wiley has a new post announcing that the Open High School of Utah has published its 9th grade curriculum openly. From the post:
The OHSU OCW collection is unique because a large portion of the materials shared in OHSU OCW are pre-existing OER, created by other institutions and aggregated by OHSU for use in supporting student learning.
More coverage at Opensource.com.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged CC licenses, creative commons, e-learning, K-12, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Alan Levine (website currently down, but keep trying) has a new post on why he like the CC BY-NC license. Alec Couros also posted within the last week about that license. John Reiser writes about an unexpected use of one of his CC-licensed photos. From the post:
Am I upset that an anti-rail group used my picture for their own use? Not really. The Internet is founded on sharing information. I would be a hypocrite if I was bothered by it.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, copy right, copyright, creative commons, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
Steve Kolowich has written an article on students being required to edit Wikipedia for class. From the post:
In recent years, academics seem to have gotten used to Wikipedia being around (and have perhaps recognized its efforts to keep out bad information), and much of the discussion has shifted to how it can be applied constructively.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged commons, higher education, oer, open content, Open Education, Wikipedia
Mark Guzdial has a new post questioning whether learning can occur in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). From the post:
But did anybody learn?
Response and link provided by Stephen Downes.
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The OCW Consortium has tweeted that a webinar on open licenses will be taking place Sept. 9.
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Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, open licenses, open licensing, openness
John Hawks has a new post asking why publishers can’t be cut out of research dissemination. From the post:
The main problem is that authors must surrender their copyright to a cartel of publishers in order to see their scientific work reviewed by peers.
Dan Colman points out that NASA has released a large number of photos to Flickr Commons. Thanks to Stephen Downes for the link.
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Tagged commons, copy right, copyright, open content, policy, public domain
