Michelle Thorne has a new post announcing that Creative Commons is looking for a venue for to host CC 2011 Global Meeting. From the post:
To this end, CC has posted a request for proposals inviting interested organizations to apply to co-host the next global CC meeting, ideally co-located with another relevant event.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, conference, copy right, copyright, creative commons
Timothy Vollmer has a new post announcing partnership between IEEE and Connexions to produce open content relating to engineering. From the post:
The materials allow engineering instructors to mix and match to build customized courses, textbooks and study guides, and are useful for practicing engineers for their own education and career growth.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, copy right, copyright, creative commons, higher education, ocw, oer, open content, openness
Paul Stacey has a new post discussing the “negative spaces” around Open Education Conference 2010. From the post:
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Tagged conference, higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
Heidi Ellis has a new post discussing the use of open source in the classroom from a professor’s perspective. From the post:
One very real danger of student participation in open source software development is that students will learn from the community, gain from the community, and then not provide anything back to that community. This violates the open source way and could easily break up open source/academic collaborations.
Thanks to Open Trends for the link.
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Tagged higher education, open content, Open Education, open source, openness
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness, remix
John Spencer has a new post arguing that schools should embrace open source to prevent lock-in. From the post:
Quite simply examination vendors should be barred from being text book suppliers. Not only do they have an unfair advantage over their commercial rivals they completely undermine the use of free materials as the predominant source of school-knowledge.
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Tagged higher education, K-12, open content, Open Education, open source, open textbook, open textbooks, openness
Alan Levine has a new post sharing another “amazing story of openness”.
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Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Stian Håklev has a new post about OpenCourseWare in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. This post is part of an ongoing series about OCW efforts in Asia. From the post:
In this post, I will introduce the development of OpenCourseWare projects in three Asian countries that are close to China both geographically and culturally. I will later use these examples to show why it was easy for foreigners to misunderstand the developments within China.
Thanks to Nelson Piedra for the link.
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Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Tony Bates has notes that the European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning (EURODL) has issued a call for papers about creativity and OER.
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Tagged creativity, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
Paul Jump is reporting on SAGE Open, which offer an open access publishing venue for articles in the social sciences and humanities.
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Tagged higher education, library, OATP, openness, research
