Karen Fasimpaur has a new post on changing K-12 culture to suppor open education and openness. From the post:
And while it strikes many of us that the open movement could inspire and inform the reforms that K-12 education desperately needs, the question of how to reconcile these two very different cultures looms. The habits, preferences, and even vocabulary of these cultures are completely different.
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Stephen Downes notes that Sugar Labs will be using open educational resources in program related to One Laptop Per Child.
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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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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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Tagged commons, higher education, K-12, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
John Spencer has a new post on how he saves money with Calibre and LibreOffice.
David Wiley has a new post announcing the open textbook calculator. From the post:
Today we’ve released the first version of a calculator that provides an interactive way to explore the best case scenario under a very specific assumption – that you want to provide a printed book to every student.
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“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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Miguel Guhlin has a new post pointing out that courses at the Open High School of Utah are available in Moodle. From the post:
So, it should come as no surprise that online learning opportunities will start popping up. While I don’t think “do it yourself” a la Moodle is the way state legislators imagine, you can sense people moving in that direction, no?
Thanks to Stephen Downes for the link.
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Kate Rix has a new post about remixing Scholastic textbooks. These textbooks are not open, and copyright does not appear to be addressed in the post. From the post:
“The long-term transformation is not books going online,” says Mary Skafidas, a marketing executive at McGraw-Hill. “It’s the creation of different tools, a step beyond digital prose. We have gone beyond that to create simulations, math disguised as video games, and whole digital worlds.
Thanks to Judy Baker for the link.
Cory Doctorow has a new post pointing out new legislation in Canada aimed at creating permissions and restrictions for educators. From the post:
Under the new exemption proposed in C-32, teachers would join journalists and critics as one of the protected groups who can make brief quotes (provided such quotes don’t comprise a “significant” portion of the work) for a narrow set of purposes.
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