Kathy Kowalenko has a new post the IEEE’s plan towards open access. From the post:
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Monthly Archives: March 2011
IEEE Five-Point OA Plan
Posted in Open Education
Tagged higher education, OATP, open access, openness, research
OER and the “Aggregation Question”
Amber Thomas has a new post on open educational resources and the “aggregation question”. From the post:
I’m interested in the pragmatic approaches to digital infrastructure: who needs to does what, who pays the people developing the infrastructure, and what incentives are there for people to join in. I think these can usefully be asked about whether/how to aggregate “OERs”.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
Commercial Textbook Reliability
Geoff Cain has a new post on commercial textbook reliability. From the post:
In my experience as a former manager for a commercial textbook publisher, their motivation was to bring a textbook to the market as quickly as possible, not ensure the quality.
Thanks to Mark R. Nelson for the link.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged open content, Open Education, open textbook, open textbooks, openness
Using CC for Software
Nick Freear has a new post on why Creative Commons licenses shouldn’t be used for software. From the post:
The short answer is, if you use a Creative Commons License your software probably won’t be free software/ open source software, and therefore won’t be re-usable by others including developers (which is what you want right?)
Posted in Open Education
Tagged cc, CC licenses, copy right, copyright, creative commons, open content, open source, openness
CC HQ Moves
Jennifer Yip makes a quick note of Creative Commons headquarters new physical location.
OpenStudy
Tony Bates has a short post introducing OpenStudy. From the post:
The concept is quite simple – choose a topic, post a question and join other online learners.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
OER and Personal Learning
Stephen Downes has posted links to his presentation “The Role of Open Educational Resources in Personal Learning”.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Librarians React to Google Settlement Rejection
Josh Hadro has a new post discussing the Google Book Settlement rejection from the perspectives of librarians. From the post:
What librarians can look forward to instead: a renewed commitment from library advocates to make more content accessible to scholars and to the general public, whether via an alternative settlement agreement or legislative recourse.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged copy right, copyright, Google's Settlement, Internet, library, openness, policy, public domain
OERbit
Pieter Klymeer has a new post announcing OERbit, a platform for publishing OER. From the post:
Open.Michigan upgraded its website to a Drupal-based system. After some bug-fixing, optimizing, and generalizing, we are now releasing the code to the public under an open-source license.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged commons, e-learning, higher education, Internet, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Interview with Paul Stacey
Timothy Vollmer has posted an interview with Paul Stacey, Director of Communications at BCcampus. From the post:
Stacey speculates that while government Ministries have yet to be convinced that making all their publicly funded educational resources open to the world is in the best interests of its citizens, he predicts that this will eventually prove to be the case.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
