John Fontaine has a new post expressing concern about bias in open textbooks. From the post:
I’m afraid, very afraid for the future of OERs and I have no idea what to do about a problem I see looming.
Thanks to Stephen Downes for the link.
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Jane Park has a new post announcing that Esther Wojcicki, one of the Creative Commons board members, will be speaking at the Global Education Project. The talk will be broadcast via Elluminate.
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Antonella Esposito has tweeted the availability of Open Education Conference 2010 papers.
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The 2010 National Education Plan has been released an mentions OER on page 56.
Martin Weller has a new post explaining his unorthodox presentation about OER. From the post:
My talk had the hypothesis that by considering OERs as big and little, it provided a lens on a number of issues around OERs
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Open Nottingham has a new post about tracking open educational resources. From the post:
When I did the F symbol blog post a while back, I did something cunning with the image itself. Rather than just being your standard run-of-the-mill image, it was instead a ninja image, filled with ninja like skills.
Thanks to SkillsforScientists for the link.
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Lisa Katayama has posted an interview with Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, about Creative Commons. From the interview:
I have always been a fan of CC’s approach as a “middle way.” For a long time, we were stuck in a debate about copyright that focused only on two categories of people: the creators who want to maintain their work under traditional copyright, and the “pirates” who want to steal that work and undermine it.
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Katherine Long has a new article on the state of Washington’s open textbook initiative. From the article:
The open-source textbook drive is part of a larger state effort, called the Open Course Library, to assemble all curriculum materials — including the course syllabus, videos, lecture notes and exams — for the 81 most popular courses
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Brian Lamb has a new post reflecting on Open Education Conference 2010 and the Mozilla Drumbeat festival. From the post:
Which speaks to a more important problem. Great ‘content’ is one thing — and the ‘content’ of this conference was great — but in isolation content is lifeless and does not do its part to energize something that feels like learning.
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Eric Duval shares his slides from Open Ed Conference 2010. Thanks to Willem vanValkenburg for the link.
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