JISC Digitisation Programme has a new post asking about the value of digitization for the humanities. From the post:
And besides the statistical reasons for continuing with digitisation, there are more nuanced, qualitative reasons. By ceasing such activities, we risk creating an ossified and very imbalanced canon of what has been digitised – new research interests remain marginalised in the absence of access to source material.
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Timothy Vollmer has posted an interview with Nick Shockey,Director of the Right to Research Coalition (R2RC). From the post:
“Paying $30 for access to one article is expensive even for many researchers in the U.S.,” says Nick, “but when you realize that $30 is an entire average month’s wage in Malawi, you can see the huge disparities in access faced by huge swaths of people around the world.”
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Tagged e-learning, Internet, journal, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
Alan Levine has a new post about finding MOOCs and teaching locally. From the post:
Is there a list? a Directory? Is it moving to fast to know them all in your head? That would be a good sign to me.
More thoughts and commentary on US Government new plan for open educational resources in college.
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Many posts, tweets and other forms of online buzz surrounding the US Government approval of $2 billion for open curriculum for online schools.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, Open Education, openness, policy
Marc Perry has posted an interview with Taylor Walsh, who conducted research into the history and effectiveness of OpenCourseWare. From the interview:
What’s most striking to me is how difficult these projects have found it to gauge the impact of an open and free resource. They’re really carving out new territory.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, openness
Matt Liebenson has a new post noting two cases, one in Belgium and one Israel, that found in favor of Creative Commons licenses. From the post:
These cases together highlight some important fundamentals about how CC licenses operate. First and foremost, our licenses operate in conjunction with copyright, not in lieu of copyright. This means that if the terms of the CC license you have applied to your music or other creative work are violated, as the judge concluded in the Belgian case, the result is copyright infringement and nothing less.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, creative commons, openness, policy
Doug Johnson has a new post on supporting Wikipedia. From the post:
Even very young students can and should be learning to consider the accuracy and potential bias of information sources.
Link and commentary by Stephen Downes.
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Tagged oer, open content, Open Education, openness, Wikipedia
Tony Hirst has a new post on the site GetTheData.org a website reminiscent of Stack Overflow.
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Tagged commons, e-learning, online learning, open data, open source, openness
Three posts cover discussion at a recent JISC OER meeting: DELILA Project Blog, OpenSpires and Alejandro Armellini.
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