Amber Thomas has a new post asking what is valuable in openly licensed resources. From the post:
Some formats have implicit constraints on re-use. Or as Tony Hirst puts it, PDFs are implicitly available on a no derivatives & share-alike basis: they are intended to be read but not edited.
Thanks to Stephen Downes for the link.
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Dave White has a new post asking “Who is Using Open Educational Resource?” From the post:
As anyone who has cruised the blog posts around OER will know there is a never-ending debate about the value-cost ratio of openly licensing educational resources much of which hangs on an expectation of repurposing/remixing. Up to now there has been little research on the potential value of OER as distinct from stuff-on-the-web from the perspective of the users/re-users/remixers.
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Tony has a new post compiling articles that suggest an emphasis on users of open educational resources, not producers. Thanks to SCORE Project for the link.
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Creative Commons tweets a link to “Supplemental Priorities for Discretionary Grant Programs”, which indicates that OER is one of those priorities.
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elearningpapers has issued a call for papers about open educational practices. Thanks to Paulo Simões for the link.
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“Cath” has a new post recapping E-Learning Forum 2010, particularly regarding open educational resources.
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Travis Kaya is reporting on the Right to Research Coalition. From the article:
The Right to Research Coalition, which says it represents student groups comprising 5.5 million members in the United States and several other countries, unveiled a Web site and blog in October to educate and connect students about open-access publishing, and increase pressure on publishers and scholars to make their work freely available online.
Timothy Vollmer has a new post about Creative Commons filing a comment with the U.S. Department of Commerce. From the post:
Creative Commons has filed comments in the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Inquiry on Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Internet Economy. The Department received nearly 900 submissions over the comment period, which ended December 10.
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Anya Kamenetz has a new post about Mozilla Drumbeat, learning, freedom and the web. From the post:
This is open source–a new way under the sun of organizing creative work with broad participation, all enabled by transparency. And in its maturity, a movement has grown out of this work, a worldwide alliance of people dedicated to keeping a part of the web transparent, held in common, and freely remixable by individuals.
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Gary Hall has a new post on the limits of openness. From the post:
The requirement to have visibility, to show up in the metrics, to be measurable, nowadays encourages researchers to publish a lot and frequently. So much so that the peer-reviewed academic journal article has been positioned by some as having now assumed ‘a single central value, not that of bringing something new to the field but that of assessing the person’s research, with a view to hiring, promotion, funding, and, more and more, avoiding termination.’
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