Jim Groom has a new post expressing concern that open education is too entrenched in the current model of higher education. From the post:
…frankly I’m tired of arguing and fighting with digital humanists and OER folks. Let them do their thing, there is no crime in that and there are great things happening in both fields I’m sure. What is clear to me is that I need to find another way…
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Jane Park has a new post summarizing Open Access Week 2010 events. From the post:
Taking place the same week everywhere, Open Access Week brings together people from all ends of the academic and research communities at various worldwide conferences, workshops, and other events to “continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.”
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, OATP, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Cameron Parkins has a new post with the CEO of self-publishing platform Lulu, Bob Young. From the post:
Lulu’s mission is nothing less than to accelerate the transfer of knowledge from one generation of humans to the next. We are doing this by empowering authors of all stripes to bring their knowledge and expertise to their markets without having to ask permission of anyone.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, creative commons, e-learning, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Anita de Waard has posted a paper on the publishing scientific research without journals. From the paper:
Papers, in their current format, are disjunct from experimental artifacts; they contain images that have been loosely derived from the research data, but there is no way for a reader to click on an image and see the spreadsheets, the calculations, the image bank or processing steps that went into producing that image.
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Tagged higher education, journal, library, OATP, OATP.new, open content, openness, research
Brian Lamb has a new post presenting short poem, or coda, for openness.
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Tagged commons, e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, open data, Open Education, openness
“bdra” has a new post on the OSTRICH project. From the post:
After the successful completion of the OTTER project at Leicester, which released 430 credits’ worth of Open Educational Resources (OERs) during the pilot phase of the OER programme, the JISC and HE Academy-funded OSTRICH project (UKOER Phase 2, cascade strand), got off to a flying start.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education
Christine Geith tweets about the new WikiResearcher project.
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Tagged commons, higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness, research, wikiresearcher
Last week OEN reported that Creative Commons released Public Domain Mark, a way of marking content as being in the public domain. Mike Masnick has a new post concerned about needing a public domain mark. From the post:
While I’m always happy to see more ways to educate people about the public domain, it is a little sad, when you think about it, that this is needed at all.
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Tagged commons, Internet, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness, public domain
Brian Lamb has a new post on sustaining culture through openness. From the post:
I would like open educators to see people in the wider world not just as learners gratefully consuming our generously-provided open educational resources, but as partners in a broader cultural enterprise, and an invaluable source of untapped knowledge and expertise.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, open culture, Open Education, open source
Alan Levine has a new post on the longevity of repositories in comparison to maintaining their own personal web space. From the post:
I’m rather proud that the one and only “R” like thing I created, the Maricopa Learning eXchange, launched in 2010, is actually still running there at http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/mlx.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
