Timothy Vollmer has a new post noting that the U.S. Federal government has approved $2 billion for development of open educational resources. From the post:
Beth Noveck, professor of law and former U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer and Director of the White House Open Government Initiative, said, “The decision to make the work product of $2 billion in federally funded grants free for others to reuse represents a historic step forward for open education.
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Tagged commons, higher education, ocw, oer, open content, openness, policy
Leslie Chan has a new post discussing instances in which journals withdraw open access. From the post:
…several publishers have withdrawn access to health journals from the academic communities in Bangladesh has come as a wake-up call about the limitations of the HINARI programme.
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Tagged e-learning, OATP, online learning, open access, openness
Stevan Harnad has a new post about the difficulty behind getting authors to make individual copyright agreements for articles published. From the post:
It is the equivalent of trying to combat smoking by trying to persuade smokers to write individually to tobacco companies to ask them to manufacture fewer cigarettes.
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Tagged higher education, journal, library, OATP, open access, openness
Sir John Daniel has a new post on the World Library of Science, which is a joint venture between UNESCO and Nature Publishing Group. From the post:
…the first open online learning resource covering the entire life and physical science curriculum at the secondary and post-secondary level.
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Karen Fasimpaur has a new post about getting ready for her Entrepreneurial Marketing course at P2PU. From the post:
The biggest thing that’s different about P2PU is the idea that there is no “teacher” — we’re all learning together. Very authentic…and fun. I’m stretching my brain to think about how you design for this. Less content, more good questions and tasks to get at individual objectives.
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Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, open course, Open Education, open learning, open-teaching, openness
Alan Levine has a new post respond to Gardner Campbell’s “bags of gold” analogy. From the post:
I find we tend to think of tools, strategies as aiming for one approach to meet a wide range of needs, but we more or less end up aiming for for the lowest technical denominator as to not be “too technical” or worrying about “people cannot do that because it is complex”.
Note: D’Arcy Norman also has a post on the “bags of gold” analogy, but it appears temporarily replaced in blog migration.
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Kathryn Zickuhr and Lee Rainie have published a paper looking at Wikipedia’s past and present. From the post:
In the scope of general online activities, using Wikipedia is more popular than sending instant messages (done by 47% of internet users) or rating a product, service, or person (32%), but is less popular than using social network sites (61%) or watching videos on sites like YouTube (66%).
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Tagged commons, e-learning, oer, online learning, open content, openness, Wikipedia
Tom Caswell has a new post on the affordances of open education. From the post:
What are the desired outcomes of creating and using Open Educational Resources? How can we make it easy for newcomers to engage? Let’s face it, most educators don’t know or care about using RDFa to embed a Creative Commons license, in the same way that most bloggers today don’t know or care about inserting an image using HTML.
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JISC Advance has a new post announcing a webinar on Jan. 26. From the post:
The Academy/JISC OER Programme began in April 2009 with a pilot phase designed to discover issues related to OER release across three areas– institutional, subject communities and individual academics – with a view to informing further work. The second phase began at the end of August 2010 and is currently taking this work forward.
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Richard Poynder has posted an interview with Derk Haank, CEO of Spring Science and Business Media. From the interview:
Librarians need to accept that if they want access to a continually growing database, then costs will need to go up a little bit but not like in the days of the serials crisis. We try to accommodate our customers, but at a certain point, we will hit a wall.
Link and commentary by Barbara Fister.
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Tagged higher education, Internet, journal, library, OATP, open access, openness
