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School of Webcraft Job Opening
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Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
OCWC Issues Awards
The OpenCourseWare Consortium has issued a press release announcing winners of Awards of OCW Excellence (ACE). From the press release:
The winners include the University of Sumatera Utara OpenCourseWare, the University of Michigan OERbit and the Universidad de Alicante OpenCourseWare.
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Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education
CSCL Intro
Stian Haklev has a new post introducing CSCL, an open online course. From the post:
We have been planning this course for a very long time, and to see people sign up, begin to blog, engage with the readings (and each other), tweet, comment on the P2PU site etc, is very exciting and rewarding!
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, open course, Open Education, openness
Defining Open Education
The website Techsual has a new post giving their own definition of open education. From the post:
I feel like people who are already professionals in their fields and already blogging, writing tutorials and making videos should be the teachers of the future. I think they’re the most qualified.
Thanks to superawesomenrd for the link.
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Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
Alternatives to Google Book Settlement
Pamela Samuelson has published an article exploring possible alternatives to the now failed Google Book Settlement. From the post:
This article explores a number of component parts of a legislative package that might accomplish many of the good things that the proposed settlement promised without the downsides that would have attended judicial approval of it.
Open Education Video Overview
YouTube user “educationopened” has posted a short one and a half minute video introducing open education. Thanks to yvideotweets for the link.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Flat World Knowledge Releases Customization Platform for Their Textbooks
Flat World Knowledge has issued a press release announcing a “Make It Your Own” textbook customization platform.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged commons, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
OCW Efforts in Higher Ed
Mark Jaycox has a new post providing an overview of recent OCW efforts in higher education. From the post:
The Open University plans to develop free, open courseware that will aide students in meeting prerequisite math courses. The program, called “Bridge to Success” (B2S), will use high-quality open educational material, like MIT’s Open Courseware, to combine multimedia content with traditional pre-algebra concepts.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
Linking Research Papers to OER
Nick Sheppard has a new post on linking research papers to open educational resources. From the post:
With such an approach, is there perhaps an opportunity to tie research and OER more closely together at an institutional level (if this isn’t politically naive!) and contribute to research led teaching?
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Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness, research
Incentives to Use OER
A mindmap has been posted on incentives to use open educational resources.
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