Donatella Della Ratta has a new post on Creative Commons in Lebanon. From the post:
The near future also holds another milestone for us; this month will be the launch of the Lebanese CC Community official website as part of the CC site.
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Lebanese Creative Commons
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, creative commons, open content, openness
Elite Colleges and OCW
“Thomas” has a new post discussing higher education, OpenCourseWare and elite colleges. From the post:
Open courseware should provide the sage – but the learning process will still need that orchestrator. My guess is that the elite colleges came to this realization a long time ago.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
BitTorrent and Khan Academy
The BitTorrent Blog is announcing that it will help distribute educational videos by the Khan Academy. From the post:
Today we launched a brand-new app in collaboration with Khan Academy, a renowned not-for-profit organization fulfilling the mission of global education through video classes. We are extremely honored to support their vision.
Thanks to Slashdot for the link.
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Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
More on Open High School of Utah
Open Education News has covered the Open High School of Utah a few times. Tom Vander Ark two new posts (one at the Huffington Post and one at edReformer). From the edReformer post:
Active collaboration takes place in the virtual faculty room, the Teacher Commons. They just integrated the Genius student information system and to ensure that no one or nothing drops through the cracks, the faculty uses Highrise as a case management tool to track interventions and conversations related to individual students.
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Tagged e-learning, K-12, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Promoting Public Domain
Jonathan Gray has a new post on promoting the public domain. From the post:
A few weeks back we ran a small workshop in Berlin for Public Domain Day 2011. It was attended by a mix of artists, scholars, legal experts, technologists, and passers by.
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Tagged commons, open content, Open Education, openness, public domain
Times Higher Education on OER University
Rebecca Attwood has written an article on the OER University. From the article:
The proposal is not about “dismantling” the existing university system but rather “augmenting and adding value to” existing provision.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
UK Ed Policy and Publishers
Ross Gardler has a new post questioning the influence of publishers on UK education policy. From the post:
As a result of the JISCs desire to understand reality, rather than succumb to marketing messages from big companies back in 2003, they have been instrumental in the creation of policies and practices which have started to level the playing field for open source suppliers in our sector.
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Tagged OATP, OATP.new, open access, open content, Open Education, open textbook, openness, policy
Pre-Meeting SCOPE Seminar
WikiEducator is announcing a pre-meeting SCOPE Seminar. The topic will be open educational resources for assessment and credit for students.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
US Gov. Drops SCORM Requirement
Both Stephen Downes and David Wiley note that the U.S. Department of Labor has reversed a recent unpopular decision regarding the $2 billion that would go towards OER and related projects. The Department of Labor is no longer requiring the use of SCORM.
CORRE Model
Vic Jenkins has a new post outlining the CORRE model of converting learning materials into open educational resources. From the post:
A first experience of applying the CORRE model to an existing piece of learning content has been really helpful for highlighting issues and changes that will need to be made to the materials before their release as an Open Educational Resource.
Thanks to Stephen Downes for the link.
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Tagged ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
