Joseph Thibault has a new post noting that Open University has chosen Moodle 2.0 as its next LMS.
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Open University Chooses Moodle 2.0
Posted in Open Education
Tagged higher education, open source, open university, openness, OU
OER Policy Forum
E-Taalim.com has a new post pointing out that an OER policy forum will be held in France next week. From the post:
The UNESCO/COL OER Policy Forum will examine the results of the “Taking OER beyond the OER community” initiative and strategise next steps.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
British Library Releases Bibliographic Data Using CC0
Jane Park has a new post noting that The British Library has released its bibliographic data using CC0. From the post:
The British National Bibliography contains data on publishing activity from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland since 1950.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, creative commons, open content, Open Education, openness, public domain
Why Bother With Openness?
David Wiley has a new post asking why should people bother licensing content with an open license. From the post:
Hopefully Steve will correct me if I’m wrong, but I’d guess that about 25% of the per-course publication costs (not technology infrastructure or external outreach costs – I’m talking about costs directly related to publishing a course) derive specifically from the desire for the final publication to employ an open license.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged cc, CC licenses, creative commons, higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
OER.txt
OCW Search has a new post suggesting an OER.txt file, similar to a robots.txt file. From the post:
There is a convention for web crawlers, aka robots and spiders, that websites can use to communicate to the crawlers which pages they are allowed and not allowed to crawl. This convention is called robots.txt and by convention it must be at the domain’s root.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged commons, creative commons, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
Issue on University Presses
JEP: The Journal of Electronic Publishing has a new issue on the future of university presses.
OPAL Survey
OPAL is conducting a survey on open educational resources and practices.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Open, Royalty-Free Standards
Sir Tim Berners-Lee has written a new article on the need for open, royalty-free standards. From the post:
The URI is the key to universality…The URI allows you to follow any link, regardless of the content it leads to or who publishes that content. Links turn the Web’s content into something of greater value: an interconnected information space.
Commentary and link by Glyn Moody.
The Problems With Creative Commons
Last week Stephen Downes posted on the problems with Creative Commons. David Wiley posted a rebuttal. Joss Winn has a now posted a rebuttal to Wiley. From Winn’s post:
The idea that an institution should introduce a mandate that all teaching and learning materials should be a particular CC license is not progressive in terms of the ownership of private property or the autonomy of the teacher.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, copy right, copyright, creative commons, higher education, ocw, oer, Open Education, openness
Open Access in Africa
Kim West has a new post about open access in Africa. From the post:
Open Access journals allow unrestricted access to this information to anyone, but despite the obvious benefits OA has for low income countries, currently only 1% of journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)come from Africa.
