The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand has issued a press release. From the press release:
Leading distance education provider the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand has signed an agreement to work with one of the world’s largest education organisations the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) in India.
Johan Bengtsson has a new post on getting scientists to contribute to Wikipedia. From the post:
…I do not think that the main obstacle to get researchers to edit Wikipedia articles is reluctance to doing so because Wikipedia is “inconsistent with traditional academic scholarship”, though that might be a partial explanation. What I think is the major problem is the time-reward tradeoff.
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Tagged higher education, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
Steve Kolowich has a new post about Taylor Walsh’s new book, Unlocking the Gates. From the interview:
On the other hand, absent the measures inherent to actual, degree-granting programs, there is no way to tell how much actual learning these expensive projects are creating.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness, policy
“bdra” has a new post on an open educational resources workshop in Afghanistan. From the post:
he workshop is part of an ongoing series of networking activities between universities in the UK, Afghanistan and Pakistan, as part of a project called DELPHE (Development Partnerships in Higher Education)…
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Peter Robinson has a new post on search engine optimization for open educational resources. From the post:
…marketing through high visibility channels seems key but some of the basics on web visibility are worth stating – good clearly titled content on a valid academic URL will always be valued highly by the Google system particularly if linked to by other acadmic sites.
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Education-Portal.com has posted an interview with Steve Carson, President of the OCW Consortium. From the post:
Our audience comprises 9 percent educators, 42 percent enrolled students and 43 percent independent learners (6 percent other). Around 60 percent of the total audience comes from outside the U.S., and visitors literally come from every country and territory on the planet.
More reaction to the news that Canvas, a LMS by Instructure, is going open source.
Anna Gruszczynska has a new post on the Open Cascade project, which is looking at promoting open educational resources. From the Post:
Looking at the documents available from the other cascade projects, it seems that the common denominator is a model of diagnosis followed by prescription. That is, most projects start by identifying the OER-readiness of their partner institutions, with the aim of creating a tailored support package, which addresses sector/discipline/institution-specific issues.
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Mike Linksvayer has a new post on Creative Commons and databases. From the post:
With the exception of strongly recommending CC0 (public domain) for scientific data, Creative Commons has been relatively quiet about use of our licenses for data and databases.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, creative commons, open content, openness
Slashdot has a new post on the Google Art Project, which allows visitors to see works of art from museums in the US and Europe.
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