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New Bookreader at Internet Archive
Posted in Open Education
Tagged commons, e-learning, Internet, oer, online learning, open content, openness, public domain
Taking OER Beyond the OER Community Forum
Jane Marshall has a new post summarizing the Taking Open Education Resources Beyond the OER Community forum. From the post:
Barbara Chow, Education Programme Director of the Hewlett Foundation, said this was “a very propitious moment” for OER. “The global economic crisis has put pressure on education budgets and we have seen a lot of interest growing in the world because of that.”
Posted in Open Education
Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, Open Education, openness
Creative Commons Contribution to the Arts
Tal Niv has a new post discussing Creative Commons contribution to the Arts. From the post:
This is why in addition to developing novelty measures and to understanding how CC contributes institutionally to innovation, the project continues under the assumption that all else being equal, having more art is better, having more art contributors is better, having more consumption of art is better, having better art is better and extended quality in creativity and consumption is better.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, copy right, copyright, creative commons, openness
What Open Data Means
Melanie Chernoff has a new post that appears both at Opensource.com and Open Knowledge Forum. From the post:
I…would like to address my personal pet peeve about the dilution of the term open data.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged commons, open content, open data, openness, public domain
Lessons from the Open Source Movement for OER
Andreas Meiszner has posted his dissertation, titled “The Emergence of Free / Open Courses – Lessons from the Open Source Movement”. From the abstract:
This work investigates the nature of Free/Open Education with a particular focus at a course level. Initiatives such as MIT’s OpenCourseWare marked the start of the Open Educational Resource (OER) movement, a movement largely strategically driven at institutional levels. More recently one can observe however a further development within the educational domain that might be broadly characterized as ‘Open Courses’. These attempts, unlike the OER case, seem to be mainly driven at the individual educators’ level, but not be strategically addressed at the institutional level.
Thanks to Antonella Esposito for the link.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, open learning, open-teaching, openness
Videos on MOOCs
Stephen Downes has posted links to videos by Dave Cormier about Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).
Posted in Open Education
Tagged e-learning, mooc, online learning, open content, open learning, open-teaching, openness
Student-Created Open Textbook
Kenneth Leroy Busbee has a new post pointing to a student-created open textbook about word processing. From the post:
As a class project it encompasses service learning, team work, Open Educational Resources (OER) and writing across the curriculum exposures to their collegiate experiences.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged e-learning, higher education, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, open textbook, open textbooks, openness
Reminder: OCWC Call for Papers
A reminder that OCW Consortium 2011 Global Conference proposals are due by Dec. 15.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, OCWC, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Athabasca U Opts Out of Copyright Fee
Howard Knopf notes that Athabasca University has opted out of a copyright fee, due to a substantial increase in cost this year. From the Athabasca’s press release:
“We cannot afford such an exorbitant increase, nor do we want to pass it on to our students,” said Dr. Rory McGreal, Associate Vice-president of Research. “And the idea that the Copyright Board is considering an order to pay Access Copyright an advance in order to cover their exorbitant salaries and to pay for their legal actions against us is outrageous.”
Making OER Visible
Amber Thomas has a new post about making open educational resources “visible and findable”. From the post:
Whether you are using iTunesU or an institutional e-prints repository or a homegrown solution, make sure you know how it exposes its content to the web so that you can optimise it for discovery.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged commons, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
