Glyn Moody has a new post on “the end of copyright’s social contract”. From the post:
Looks like the social contract can now be torn up: even without that copyright monopoly – and remember, monopolies are bad things – artists are still creating.
A judge in New York ruled against the Google Book settlement. Coverage from Forbes, Wall Street Journal and New York Times.
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Tony Hirst has a new post on custom course search engines. From the post:
If the desire for OU courses to make increased use of third party materials and open educational resources is realised, we are likely to see a shift in the pedagogy to one that is more resource based. This project seeks to explore the extent to which custom search engines tuned to particular courses may be used to support the discovery of appropriate resources published on the public web, and as indexed by Google, on any given course.
Hirst also has a post on conducting an “uncourse” while learning a subject.
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Paul Jump has published an article on green OA as “electronic buckets”. From the post:
…repositories are essentially “electronic buckets” with no quality control. He also expressed doubts that the academy would be able to successfully introduce peer review to such repositories, partly because it would be difficult to attract reviewers who had no “brand allegiance” to the repositories.
Link and commentary by Leslie Carr.
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Tagged higher education, Internet, OATP, open access, research
Algot Runeman has a new post on the quality of OER and OER as a “religion”. From the post:
I am not suggesting that a respected institution lend its name to shoddy work. I am proposing that the OER “movement” is still young. It absolutely NEEDS masses of contributors. OER isn’t business as usual with a few experts delivering the authorized “word” to the rest of us.
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Lise Mansell has a new post on engaging staff in open educational resources. From the post:
On the 16th March the Ripple partners gathered at Oxford Brookes University to participate in the fourth workshop.
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Santally Mohammed Issack has published a case study of OER use at the University of Mauritius. From the post:
This paper presents a case study of how OERs have been included in a sustainable and innovative teaching and learning model in three online courses at Diploma, Bachelor and Masters Level. It shows how the inclusion of OERs helped maintain a good quality level, sustain a viable economic model with reduction of tuition fees for learners, increase access and achieve the intended learning outcomes without any negative impact on the learners’ experience.
Note: This story originally did not contain a link to the article. It has been updated to provide that link.
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Open Nottingham, learning technology has a pair of posts (one and two) regarding reuse of open educational resources. From the post:
In searching for evidence of reuse, the focus understandably has been on OER. Given the significant funding provided, it’s only natural to want to see a return on the investment. There remains much debate around tracking reuse technologically. However, this raises tricky questions around data protection and trickier problems of tracking use beyond the initial download.
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Stephen Downes has a new post discussing the Ontario Online Institute (OOI) and five key questions about the project. From the post:
Though the provision of accessible online and distance learning is often depicted as though it were a charity[8] it is in fact an efficient and effective economic development strategy.
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Brandon Muramatsu sent us a quick announcement indicating that the OpenCourseWare Consortium Conference 2011 registration is now available.
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