Christine Geith has a new post on the impact of OpenCourseWare at Michigan State University. From the post:
MSU was among the first U.S. land-grant universities to join the OpenCourseWare Consortium . Our first ten open courses included online non-credit programs in land policy and equine management. From this beginning, we took the OpenCourseWare model and applied it to food safety to rapidly create, localize, and implement critical food safety training in developing countries.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, openness
George Siemens has a new post giving a “thought experiment” about Connectivism. From the post:
I’ve been grappling with a thought experiment that might help to clarify differences and provide a platform with which to think about learning and knowledge.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, Internet, online learning, open content, openness
Anna Gruszczynska has a new post giving some reflections about open educational resources. From the post:
…a recurrent theme is that of OERs being a potential time-sink. As one of our partners commented, his OER explorations initially felt like wasting time, especially when it came to wading through a multitude of resources available through OER repositories. It took him quite a long while to get comfortable enough and trust that the initial outlay of time will in the end.
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Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
Lisa Katayama has a new post introducing Mike Carroll, one of the Creative Commons board members. From the post:
Still, Carroll says, there are challenges ahead. “We are offering tools as a solution to a problem that not everyone knows they have.”
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, creative commons, open content, openness
Wayne Mackintosh has a new post on the WikiEducator Google Group discussing OER’s “Valley of Death.” From the post:
If we are serious about getting out of OERs “valley of death ” we must shift our thinking from sharing for learning, to learning to SHARE.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness, Wikieducator
Scott Leslie has posted a list of twelve posts from OLDaily from 2010. From the post:
Stephen pretty much does not need an introduction in our field; OLDaily is, by my reckoning, still pretty much the “paper of record” in the edu-blogosphere and I have a hard time thinking of any other individual who has had such an impact on the direction and thinking of educational technology as him over the past decade.
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Mike Linksvayer has a new post on laws that are introducing rights similar to copyright. From the post:
Examples include sui generis database rights only applicable in Europe, proposals for special broadcast rights, which would give broadcasters a new set of exclusive rights merely for having broadcasted material, and a potential proposal for a new press publisher right to control use of non-copyrighted snippets of press material as well as specific headline wordings, for example.
Also, a short interview of Mark Surman of the Mozilla Foundation.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, copy right, copyright, creative commons, open content, openness
Barbara Illowsky has posted slides of a presentation titled “How Open Licensing Improves Textbooks and Careers”.
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Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, open textbook, open textbooks, openness
Rod Page has a new post on how to determine whether an article is openly available or not. From the post:
Some journals are entirely Open Access, so for these journals the first problem (is it Open Access?) is trivial, but a large number of journals have a mixed publishing model, some articles are Open Access, some aren’t.
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Tagged higher education, journal, library, OATP, open access, openness
Katarina Lovrecic has a new post explaining why the University of Michigan library chose CC0. From the post:
John Wilkin, a librarian at the University of Michigan whose library recently dropped 700,000 books into the public domain with the CC Zero license, has made an interesting comment on this act. He compared bibliographic records made available all over the internet to so many flower seeds in the wind. We need to be careful not to end up with a “dispersed and diluted” action.
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Tagged higher education, Internet, library, ocw, oer, open content, openness
