The International Council for Open and Distance Education has published a report from its conference in September. From the report:
The acceptance of ODL[Open and Distance Learning] worldwide is hampered by a lack of both political will and consistent advocacy
and support.
Thanks to Christine Geith for the link.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education
Michael Patrick Rutter has a new post introducing the Open Access movement. From the post:
One problem, explains Martha “Marce” Wooster, head of SEAS’s Gordon McKay Library, is the lack of any “algorithm a librarian can use to determine what journals to keep or cut,” whether based on price or need for access.
Thanks to the OA Tracking Project for the link.
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Tagged higher education, journal, library, OATP, open access, open content, openness, research
Alan Levine has a new post discussing the need to share by default. From the post:
Frankly, if all a site does is trot out creative commons like little stickers pasted on for decoration, its like one of those “save the planet” bumper stickers hanging on the bumper of a Hummer.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, copy right, copyright, creative commons, open content, openness
Sean Takats has a new post discussing Zotero, a citation service, and its link to open access. From the post:
Zotero has also always been fully com mit ted to open ness from the per spec tive of a provider of con tent, not just a con sum ing plat form. We don’t place any restric tions on how users employ their data — after all it belongs to them — pro gram mat i cally or oth er wise.
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Tagged higher education, OATP, open access, open source, openness
“Nicole” has a new post discussing the need to stay passionate about education, especially open education.
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Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education
The OCW Consortium is announcing a webinar on Open Education and Policy on Nov. 18.
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Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, policy
Anya Kamenetz has a new post about open education and its use of open educational resources. From the post:
A surprising attendee at the OpenEd conference whom I met at the cocktail party last night was Brian Ouellette, a Vice President at Kaplan University.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Uk Indymedia has a new post that is critical of the Open University for partnering with Google. From the post:
Students and staff data are hosted by Google and managed by the OU under European Data Protection and US Safe Harbor legislation. There are significant differences, however, between commercial companies’ and educational establishments’ approaches to privacy and copyright issues.
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Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness, OU
Steven Verjans has a new post discussing a recent meeting of the OPAL project that addressed “open educational practices.” From the post:
I felt that there was a consensus amongst the participants that OEP is broader than just practices involving OER, and that it relates to ‘openness of teaching practice, learning envronment and educational resources’
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Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, open learning, open-teaching, openness
Leigh Blackall has posted slides from a recent presentation about open education at the University of Canberra.
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