Elliott Bledsoe has a new post noting that a Belgian court has chosen to recognize Creative Commons licenses.
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Belgian Court Recognizes CC Licenses
Posted in Open Education
Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, copy right, copyright, creative commons, open content, openness
OCW Benefits
Steve Carson has a new post giving an example of how MIT OCW helps an MIT student. From the post:
Once he became aware of what OCW had to offer, Peterson also used the site to catch up on a missed calculus class using videos from 18.01.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged e-learning, mit ocw, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Brazilian Librarians Concerned About Access to Knowledge
Mike Masnick has a new post about a recent conference of Brazilian librarians. At the conference librarians expressed concern about access to knowledge.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged higher education, journal, library, open content, Open Education, openness, research
Reinventing the Vaka
Stephen Downes has a new post about an OER debate titled “Why reinvent the Vaka – Use OER”.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education
Ohio Textbook Webinar
Cable Green is announcing a webinar regarding Ohio’s textbook initiative, which includes openness.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged ocw, oer, online learning, Open Education, open textbook, open textbooks, webinar
Introduction to Hal Abelson
Lisa Katayama has posted an introduction to Hal Abelson, one of the board members for Creative Commons. From the post:
One of the greatest challenges facing CC, Abelson points out, is parsing the complex, non-intuitive legal language of copyright into something that everyone can use and relate to.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged cc, CC licenses, copy right, copyright, creative commons, Open Education, openness
Offering Open Content Through iTunes U
Dian Schaffhauser is reporting that -Oxford University, Rice University, and Open University are offering free, and sometimes open, books through iTunes U.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged commons, copy right, copyright, e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, openness, public domain
Future of Open Content
Campus Technology has posted a panel discussion with Josh Baron (Sakai Foundation), Brad Felix (Flat World Knowledge) and Michael Feldstein (blogger). From the discussion:
I’m intrigued by what you describe in terms of a commercial ecosystem growing up specifically around open educational resources.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, open source, open textbook, open textbooks
Open Access Mandates for October 2010
Peter Suber has collected a list of open access mandate updates.
Open Educational Practices
Steve Wheeler has a new post on open educational practices. The post includes video. From the post:
It’s not going to be easy to change a model where knowledge has become a commodity though. Too many powerful people and organisations stand to lose a lot if everything becomes ‘free’ and open. But things are changing slowly.
Thanks to onlinecoursesmn for the link.
Posted in Open Education
