Stian Haklev has a new post about using open educational resources within a multicultural classroom. From the post:
…in the case of University of Toronto, I argued that students should be encouraged to include resources in their mother tongues when doing research for papers (and indeed other languages that they might happen to speak), and the existence of Open Access journals can play an important role here – because not every university can afford to subscribe to databases of foreign journals.
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Timothy Vollmer has a new post about open education policy in Maine. From the interview:
The success of Maine and others’ OER projects is not assured. Dwindling budgets will remain an ongoing challenge, and while there’s been some recognition of OER in policy initiatives such as the National Education Technology Plan, Jeff and Bob question whether current budget woes will derail national and state efforts for change.
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Tagged e-learning, K-12, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Daniel Doubrovkine has a new post discussing open sourcing projects at corporations. From the post:
A common mistake in pitching open source projects is to hope for external contributors. Those could potentially add hundreds of man-hours to your project, adding features and bug-fixing it.
The reality is grim. Out of our four open source projects, only one saw substantial external contribution. It was helpful to hope for the best, but plan for the worst.
Jim Groom will begin a course on digital storytelling in January. Anyone is welcome to participate, the only requirement is that they register their blog with the open course site.
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“openmatt” is announcing that the School of Webcraft will begin classes again in January. From the post:
The School of Webcraft offered 15 classes last semester; the goal for the January semester is to double that number to 30. And to offer more classes in languages other than English.
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Jan Erik Frantsvåg has published an article on the size of open access publishers. From the abstract:
In this article I first explore reasons to be sceptical to a situation with a large number of small publishers. Then I go through the numbers from the Directory of Open Access Journals, also discussing problems inherent in the material.
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Ruth Suehle has a new post noting that Mozilla Drumbeat is compiling information about the recent Drumbeat Festival. From the post:
A substantial, 100-150 page document, to be released in January 2011, will address these questions and capture this moment in enticing words, infographics and photos. Participants in the first Mozilla Drumbeat Festival in Barcelona are invited to contribute, but the scope of the document will widen to encompass the broader future-of-learning community.
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Tagged drumbeat, higher education, Mozilla, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, open source, openness
The Owlfred Chronicles offers their list of what they consider to be the “strongest” OCW sites. From the post:
This by no means a comprehensive list (just for starters, we’re ignoring well-developed programs in Japan, France, and a variety of Spanish-language schools because of the language barrier)…
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Vic Jenkins has a new post discussing lessons learned from OpenEd 2010. From the post:
According to Rory McGreal there are 3.4 billion mobile devices in use, and the majority of people accessing the internet do so via mobile devices. Yet much OER content, from simple Word documents to complex Flash-authored learning objects, are either inaccessible or poorly optimised for mobile devices.
Many thanks to Stephen Downes for the link.
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Christine Geith tweets that papers from the Taking OER Beyond the Community forum are now available.
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