Sean Coughlan is reporting that the Open University will be getting funding from the U.S. From the post:
The $750,000 (£458,000) pilot project will help students in 10 US colleges – and will be extended if successful.
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OU to Get US Funding
Posted in Open Education
Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Open Citation
Cicely Wilson has a new post on citations and open access. From the post:
In light of this, the authors studied articles in three University of Georgia law journals to see if a correlation existed between open access and article citation, finding that, “Open access availability offers a consistent citation advantage, especially during the years immediately following publication.”
SLOAN-C OER Panel
There will be an OER panel as part of the SLOAN-C Symposium in July.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
Openness is Inevitable?
Glyn Moody has a new post discussing why openness is inevitable. From the post:
Opening up a technology allows others to contribute innovations that individual companies might never have devised on their own, or at least much more quickly. By sharing the benefits, the task of pushing forward a project is divided among the participants – the more people that use and contribute, the faster and deeper the development.
C3T Federal Grant Program
Creative Commons has a new post announcing that it has received grant money to assist in the C3T Federal Grant Program. From the post:
Creative Commons is pleased to announce we have been awarded a grant from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to provide support to successful applicants of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (C3T) grant program with our partnering organizations Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative (OLI), CAST, and the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC).
Posted in Open Education
Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Flat World Knowledge Graphic Textbooks
Calvin Reid has a new post looking at Flat World Knowledge’s Graphic textbooks. From the post:
After introducing the college world to graphic textbooks with his Atlas Black management series, Texas Tech University management professor Jeremy Short returns with two new textbook/comics titles: Tales of Garcon: the Franchise Players and University Life: A College Survival Story, his latest efforts using comics to create textbooks for college level students.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged e-learning, higher education, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
DiscoverEd Dead
Nathan Yergler has a new post announcing that the Creative Commons project, DiscoverEd, is dead. From the post:
Creative Commons is discontinuing development to focus our resources and expertise where they can have maximum impact. We do not have the resources needed to run DiscoverEd at web scale, but would love to see someone take that on.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged creative commons, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
Open Peer Review
Jennifer Howard has a new post on a recent grant given to explore the concept of open peer review. From the post:
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has given New York University Press and MediaCommons a $50,000 grant to take a closer look at open, or peer-to-peer (P2P), review, the press announced today.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged OATP, OATP.new, oer, open content, Open Education, open peer review, openness
UKOLN Seminar
Brian Kelly has a new post on the upcoming UKOLN Seminar. From the post:
UKOLN’s seminar programme continues on Thursday 14 April 2011. Vic Jenkins and Alex Lydiate of the e-Learning team in LTEO (Learning & Teaching Enhancement Office) with [sic] describe the JISC-funded OSTRICH (OER Sustainability through Teaching & Research Innovation Cascading across HEIs) project.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged conference, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness, ukoln
Wylio
Jonathan Bailey has a new post on Wylio, a tool to for formatting and giving attribution for CC-licensed photos on Flickr. From the post:
While there are thousands upon thousands of images available for easy reuse under Creative Commons Licenses in Flickr, properly attributing those images is time-consuming and can be very confusing.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, copyright, creative commons, openness
