Joel West has a new post “contrasting open standards, open source, and open innovation.” From the post:
Thus to pay the bills, there has to be value capture somewhere: everything has some level of openness and some level of proprietary–ness1.
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Tagged Internet, open content, open source, open standards, openness
George Siemens has a new post giving a “thought experiment” about Connectivism. From the post:
I’ve been grappling with a thought experiment that might help to clarify differences and provide a platform with which to think about learning and knowledge.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, Internet, online learning, open content, openness
Scott Leslie has posted a list of twelve posts from OLDaily from 2010. From the post:
Stephen pretty much does not need an introduction in our field; OLDaily is, by my reckoning, still pretty much the “paper of record” in the edu-blogosphere and I have a hard time thinking of any other individual who has had such an impact on the direction and thinking of educational technology as him over the past decade.
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Tagged e-learning, Internet, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Katarina Lovrecic has a new post explaining why the University of Michigan library chose CC0. From the post:
John Wilkin, a librarian at the University of Michigan whose library recently dropped 700,000 books into the public domain with the CC Zero license, has made an interesting comment on this act. He compared bibliographic records made available all over the internet to so many flower seeds in the wind. We need to be careful not to end up with a “dispersed and diluted” action.
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Tagged higher education, Internet, library, ocw, oer, open content, openness
The blog for the Internet Archive is announcing a new book reading software.
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Tagged commons, e-learning, Internet, oer, online learning, open content, openness, public domain
Daniel Doubrovkine has a new post discussing open sourcing projects at corporations. From the post:
A common mistake in pitching open source projects is to hope for external contributors. Those could potentially add hundreds of man-hours to your project, adding features and bug-fixing it.
The reality is grim. Out of our four open source projects, only one saw substantial external contribution. It was helpful to hope for the best, but plan for the worst.
JEP: The Journal of Electronic Publishing has a new issue on the future of university presses.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee has written a new article on the need for open, royalty-free standards. From the post:
The URI is the key to universality…The URI allows you to follow any link, regardless of the content it leads to or who publishes that content. Links turn the Web’s content into something of greater value: an interconnected information space.
Commentary and link by Glyn Moody.
Kim West has a new post about open access in Africa. From the post:
Open Access journals allow unrestricted access to this information to anyone, but despite the obvious benefits OA has for low income countries, currently only 1% of journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)come from Africa.
Andy McGregor has a new post about the advantages of open bibliographic metadata for libraries. From the post:
At JISC we think there are some intriguing benefits from taking the open approach to bibliographic metadata. We think it will maximise the possibilities for reusing the metadata to develop new and innovative services for librarians, researchers, students and teachers.
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Tagged higher education, Internet, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
