Aurelia J. Schultz has a new post announcing summer internships at Creative Commons. From the post:
Students have the opportunity to work with CC staff and international volunteers on various real-time projects. Assigned tasks and projects will vary depending on the intern’s skill & experience, as well as organization needs.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, copyright, creative commons, openness
“bdra” has a new post about open educational resources and students in Kabul. From the post:
Afghanistan may be war-ravaged and beset by all the infrastructural problems typical of developing countries, but this group of academics and students is focused on building an empowering education system for its people, and they believe that OERs have a role to play.
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Tagged e-learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Mary Grush has a new post with Trent Batson of executive director of the Association for Authentic, Experiential, and Evidence-based Learning (AAEEBL), and MERLOT Executive Director Gerry Hanley for some updates. From the interview:
[The important issue] is not that you have course content either in books or from other, web-based sources, but who is doing the search for the resource.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Jane Park has a new post announcing a course on receiving funding for Creative Commons projects. From the post:
As with all P2PU courses, the course is free to take. Though only 15 active participants will be accepted into the course, the entire course, material, and other information, including the proposals which you write in the course, will be open for anyone to follow on the P2PU platform under the CC BY-SA license.
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Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Megan Driscoll has posted an interview with Emily Puckett Rodgers, from Open.Michigan. From the interview:
As publishers of OER, Open.Michigan makes available materials that emerge from all aspects of the learning environment at the University of Michigan, whether they are associated with a specific course or not. We often consult with faculty or staff at the University of Michigan to determine how to apply open licenses to their websites, projects and resources.
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Tagged commons, e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
“alanwylie” has posted slides by Rory McGreal regarding issues with open educational resources.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Michael Geist has a new post on current developments within open education as it appears from Canada. From the post:
For Canadian educators, the challenge will be to supplement the freely available materials with Canadian context. Some Canadian universities have already jumped on the bandwagon…
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Charlie Lowe has a new post discussing the differences between emergence and community-based OER development. From the post:
While I don’t disagree with teachers releasing curricular resources they create as OER, I do question whether or not it’s a good use of resources to fund and develop opencourseware initiatives where educators are often working alone to create OER. Based on what open source development has demonstrated, we might better grow the commons if we prioritize community-based development.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
David Wiley has a new post comparing the distribution of open educational resources and toothbrushes. From the post:
If after five years 50 million people have visited the site or downloaded OER, but can’t say anything comprehensive about the impact of their program on learning (besides the odd thank you email received from program beneficiaries and self-report data), what value can we say the program has added to the world?
Reaction from Stephen Downes.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Brian Proffitt has a new post asking what you would do with the domain Open.org. From the post:
The domain name was recently acquired by Linux Fund from the City of Salem, Oregon for an undisclosed amount. Salem’s public library was using the domain for a kids-to-Internet program entitled the Oregon Public Education Network. The Linux Fund purchased the domain at public auction
Also covered by Slashdot.
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Tagged open content, Open Education, open source, openness
