Tony Hirst has a new post on Course Detective, a search engine for finding OER (and other course listings) in the UK. From the post:
If you want to search across all university prospectuses, what do you do? Suffer, that’s what…
Until now…
Neeru Khosla has posted a presentation by Dr. Louise Waters on using OER in urban high schools. From the post:
Great as the potential for each of these open-source products, to me none of them, per se, represents the real power of open-source. The real power is the synergy open source makes possible. We call this process Collaborative Innovation and we believe it represents the true transformative potential of the open source movement.
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Peter Robinson posted last week on generating tools to connect OER repositories and projects. From the post:
A range of tools were created in a fast and furious coding and writing bash with colleagues from other OER projects around the UK.
Thanks to Zak Mensah for the link.
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Calvin Reid has a new post noting that Random House, a prominent publisher, has invested in Flat World Knowledge.
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Bryn Mawr has issued a press release indicating that they have received a $250,000 for OER in the classroom. From the press release:
The proposal calls for the integration of open-source courseware modules available through the Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative (CMU OLI) into traditional classroom-based STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) courses within a liberal-arts-college…
Inside Higher Ed has more on the initiative generally.
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The Guardian has posted an editorial praising “academic” wikipedians. From the post:
…try to access contemporary scholarship with the actual web and you get tangled up.
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Denis Saulnier shares what he has learned about open education through a course at MIT. From the post:
The course is taught by Vijay Kumar, Senior Associate Dean and Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Office of Educational Innovation and Technology (bio) and Brandon Muramatsu, Senior IT Consultant in the same MIT office.
Note: The course is actually taught through Harvard’s Continuing Education Division. OEN regrets the error.
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Jim Groom has a new post on ds106.tv, an Internet broadcast for the open course ds106. From the post:
During karaoke Friday I had this idea to do a nightly news cast wherein I talk about a particular element of ds106, have call-in guests, interview students, etc.
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The cloudworks page continues to aggregate tweets and other related bits of conversation from a recent meeting of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation regarding OER.
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R. John Robertson has a new post on web 2.0, standards and openness. From the post:
In part driven by community-based standards development, there is a trend in the development of standards and specifications to work in ways that are more lightweight and to develop standards more efficiently. This may simplify the development of educational standards but educational specific standards increasingly need to demonstrate the value that they add over standards that are more generic.
Note: This post is part of a series on education-specific technical standards. These posts appear to provide an excellent overview of the topic.
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