“Andy” has a new post announcing the release of a Moodle FAQ database as an open educational resource.
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Monthly Archives: October 2010
From Sharing to Adopting
David Wiley has a new post lamenting the lack of open educational resources being adopted in comparison to the number being shared. From the post:
A sustained program of giving becomes pretty pointless when it’s clear that no one is willing to receive, regardless of how impressive the scale of would-be giving is.
Also, a post by Paul Stacey on “Not-Invented-Here” syndrome.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness, remix, reuse
Blackboard to Sell Online Courses
Jeff Young is reporting that Blackboard will begin selling online courses for remediation in various subjects. This development may have interesting implications for OpenCourseWare. From the post:
Exactly what courses will be offered and other details have not yet been decided, and officials say they are in the earliest stages of designing the actual product.
Thanks to susangautsch for the link.
Interview With Nicole Allen
Timothy Vollmer has posted an interview with Nicole Allen, a member of Student Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs). Allen has often been quoted in stories covered by OEN. From the interview:
Our goal is to get more open textbooks adopted in place of expensive traditional textbooks, so we think of ourselves as part of the “transition team” for open education. We’re getting more professors to use OER as textbooks, the format they feel most comfortable with, which will pave the way for future exploration of more innovative forms of open course materials. So far, it’s been going well.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged higher education, oer, open content, Open Education, open textbook, open textbooks, openness
Open Access Bibliography
Charles W. Bailey has posted a bibliography of over 1,000 citations related to open access. From the document:
Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography presents over 1,100 selected English-language scholarly works useful in understanding the open access movement’s efforts to provide free access to and unfettered use of scholarly literature.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged commons, higher education, OATP, open access, openness
List of Open eLearning Tools
Tony Karrer has a new post listing open eLearning tools. Thanks to Stephen Downes for the link.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged commons, e-learning, higher education, online learning, open source, openness
Cascading Peer Review
Phil Davis has a new post discussing cascading peer review. From the post:
According to Matt Cockerill, Managing Director of BioMed Central, the future of BMC involves a model of cascading peer-review, where manuscripts rejected by premium titles (like Genome Biology), are transferred to moderate rejection-rate journals (BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Evolutionary Biology, and BMC Genomics), who, in turn, redirect rejected manuscripts down to BMC Research Notes
Posted in Open Education
Tagged higher education, journal, library, OATP, openness, research
YouTube as OER Repository
“ostrichproject” has a new post debating YouTube as an OER repository.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, Open Education, openness
Open Education and Market Forces
Stephen Downes has a new post on his personal blog on open education and market forces. From the post:
Most societies have decided that the management of education is too important to be left to private enterprise, that there would be too many poison pills to swallow, and that society would be irreparably damaged as a result.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged commons, e-learning, higher education, K-12, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, open learning
Response to Shareski Presentation
Dean Shareski recently gave a presentation on, appropriately enough, sharing. Reaction from Alan Levine, Miguel Guhlin, and Stephen Downes. Also, D’Arcy Norman shares a quick thought on why people should share.
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Tagged commons, e-learning, Internet, oer, online learning, open content, openness
