Nathan Yergler has a new post with a graphic displaying the components of a Creative Commons license.
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Monthly Archives: January 2011
Visualizing CC Licenses
Posted in Open Education
Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, creative commons, open source, openness
Open Professoriat
Scott Jaschik has written a new article about the “open professoriat”, which is loosely defined as professors who put at least some of their work out in the open. From the post:
Amanda French of the Center for New Media and History argued that Twitter and Facebook will help scholars reach much broader audiences (when promoting their traditional scholarship, published in peer-reviewed journals) than relying on the journals’ own distribution methods.
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Posted in Open Education
Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, open content, openness
OER is the Solution for…
Pieter Kleymeer has a new post discussing what problem open educational resources are supposed to solve:
how does OER production help existing problems in teaching and learning and research? If we are unsure, are the costs of OER production justified? How can one answer that question without a clear understanding of how OER actually benefits the educators, students, and institutions that create and distribute them?
Posted in Open Education
Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
ds106 Assignments
Jim (Rev.) Groom has a new post outlining how he would like assignments to work in the open course ds106. From the post:
The class will have a series of assignments and guidelines that I follow with both my UMW courses as well as the open course. However, the folks in the open course 9and the UMW courses for that matter) need not do the assignments I specify, rather they can choose from one of the many assignments that various people have submitted—or they can choose to create their own and submit that.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, open course, Open Education, openness
Changes to CC Website
John Wilbanks has a new post about changes to the Creative Commons website. From the post:
We’re making these changes because we’ve received feedback — from our community of users, friends, supporters, and more — that the current set of web properties we have here at Creative Commons isn’t working as well as it could.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, copy right, copyright, creative commons, openness
MIT OCW Same as Wikipedia
Computing Education Blog has a new post arguing that visits to MIT OCW are similar to Wikipedia. From the post:
When I see that the average number of visits per visitor is less than 2, my sense is that MIT OCW is still more about looking up a single factoid (like Wikipedia), or trying it once then giving up, rather than a place to return frequently for studying.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, Wikipedia
Open Access at Law Schools
Mary Minow has two posts about open access at law schools. The first post is with Michelle Pearse, Research Librarian for Open Access Initiatives at Harvard Law School Library. The second post is an interview with Richard A. Danner, Senior Associate Dean for Information Services at Duke Law School.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged higher education, journal, library, OATP, open content, open university, openness
Wikipedia at 10 Celebrations
Wikipedia is turning 10 on January 15. A list of celebrations across the world has been posted.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged commons, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness, Wikipedia
OER Technical Interest Group
Lorna’s JISC CETIS blog has a new post announcing the formation of an OER Technical Interest Group. From the post:
In order to provide a focus for the wide range of technical activities that the UK F/HE community is engaging with in the general space of “open educational resources” CETIS are establishing an OER Technical Interest Group.
Thanks to Stephen Downes for the link.
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Tagged commons, higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
Open Access Support by the Nature Publishing Group
Lisa Green has a new post on open access support from the Nature Publishing Group. From the post:
Last month, the company announced that an additional 15 of its journals now offer open access options. And this week, the company announced a brand new online open access journal called Scientific Reports. With this launch, a full 80% of NPG academic and society journals and 50% of all journals the company publishes offer open access options to authors
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Tagged higher education, journal, library, OATP, OATP.new, ocw, oer, open access, open content, Open Education, openness
