JISC has a new post announcing OER hackday. From the announcement:
We are inviting developers and ‘users’ to work together in a unique event where teams of people will work with OER resources, systems and services. Events like these are sometimes called ‘Hack Days’. We will be encouraging developers to talk about the systems and resources they have created and how they can be discovered, disaggregated, presented, remixed and tracked.
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Brandon Muramatsu send us a note indicating that the Twitter account 10YearsOCW will be posting tweets looking back on 10 years of OpenCourseWare. The hastag #10YearsOCW is also being used.
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C-SAP Open Cascade Project blog has a new post on open educational resources in multilingual contexts. From the post:
Some of the discussion on non-English OERs centres on the accessibility and relevance of OER materials in non-Western settings, with concerns being raised about the risk of New Colonialism in OER, with the materials bearing implicit educational values of the West/global North.
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K. Jane Burpee has a new post introducing Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN). From the post:
…a collaborative initiative in Open Access publishing for humanities and social sciences monographs. It aims to develop and implement a sustainable Open Access publication model for academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
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Tagged e-learning, OATP, ocw, online learning, open access, Open Education, openness
Leslie Carr has a new post on the sixth star of open data. From the post:
In my previous posting I proposed the idea of the 5 stars of open access. There is of course one feature that the original “taxonomy” misses out completely – repositories! Not just “my favourite repository platform”, but the idea of persistent, curated storage.
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Tagged open access, open content, open data, Open Education, openness
“Serendipty35″ has a new post about open content at the Open High School of Utah. From the post:
If the only benefit you hear touted for using any open content is cost savings, then I question the effort. Whether it is selecting an open textbook for your class or puttingan entire school together, you would need to show that the coursework is up to date and relevant.
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Tagged e-learning, K-12, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Higher Ed Live has posted a new episode about open online learning.
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The European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning is announcing a special issue on creativity and OER. Note: The date for submissions has passed.
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Dean Giustini has a new post pointing to the Open Medicine Live Wiki. From the post:
Knowledge is dynamic and a wiki is a publishing tool that truly reflects that. Our hope is that this manuscript will evolve as our knowledge evolves and, ultimately, be improved by contributions directly from our readers to our authors.
The March 2011 SPARC Open Access Newsletter is now available.
