Joss Winn has a new post describing open educational resources as a “waste product” of education. From the post:
Why do we need business models for sharing when it could be a by-product of established academic practice? Why do we care so much about big and little OER existing side-by-side? Is it because institutions and their funders see OER as a source of value?
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
The 2011 EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative annual meeting is complete. Several of the presentations related to openness. These presentations include:
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Liz Dwyer has a new post suggesting a way to submit question to US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. From the post:
For a shot at Secretary Duncan answering your burning education question, simply head to the SparkAction! contest page and post your query. The public will then vote American Idol-style on which questions they like the best—so make sure you’re ready to have everyone you know in real life, plus all your Facebook friends, vote for your question.
Thanks to Maria Popova for the link.
Heather Ford has a new post on struggles of Wikipedia and its future. From the post:
Much has been said of the future of Wikipedia. Some have prophesied that the online encyclopaedia will fail due to increasing spam. Others have said that, as large parts of the world go online, Wikipedia might see a wave of new editors as countries from Zambia to Indonesia begin to fill in Wikipedia’s blank spots.
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Tagged e-learning, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness, Wikipedia
Yesterday OEN reported that the Khan Academy is distributing its resources through BitTorrent. Gregory Ferenstein has a new post on the possible ethical conflict Google faces. From the post:
Google’s blacklisting of file-sharing networks and Homeland Security seizures of the BitTorrent just became a lot more complicated: Khan Academy, producer of the wildly popular open access YouTube courses, is now distributing content over the BitTorrent Network.
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Tagged commons, e-learning, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Stuart Shieber has a new post discussing controversy regarding the publishing of dissertations online. From the post:
By way of background, Dr. Groetsch was basically concerned that the online availability of his dissertation from Rutgers’ open-access repository RUcore would affect his later ability to publish a book based on the dissertation.
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Seb Schmoller has a new tweet pointing to the OPAL portal. OPAL is a project relating to measuring and improving Open Educational Resources.
Dan Colman has a new post giving an update on NYU OCW. From the post:
Last summer, NYU announced that it will join the open courseware movement by making free courses available online, all in video. Fast forward several months, and you can now see the first fruits of NYU’s labor.
Thanks to Stephen Downes for the link.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
David Doria has a new post on higher education and open source. From the post:
Programming skills are typically what one would think of as the most important factor in the success of an open source project. However, arguably more important but often overlooked, is the social and community interaction that takes place.
Thanks to Carlos Brys for the link.
S. Ramesh has a new post on open source tools for data mining. From the post:
But the faculty members and students in many of the colleges are finding it difficult to get access to data mining tools to learn and practice, as many of the software are proprietary. However, there are a quite a few good open source data mining tools are available, which can be downloaded and used free of cost.
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