The Guardian has a new post on the need for attribution in open science. From the post:
Basically, scientists are only as good as their ideas, and even though ideas may be ephemeral, the credit for those ideas is not. Credit gets jobs, keeps jobs, gets funding, attracts students and bestows respect and international standing in the community.
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Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, open science, openness, research
Nottingham University have posted a presentation by Joel Duffin on OERGlue.
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We received a press release reminding us that the OpenCourseWare Consortium will be held May 4-6 in Boston.
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Andreas Meiszner has posted a book on “The Why and How of Open Education”.
The Open Book Alliance has a new post stating they are still concerned about the Google Book Settlement. From the post:
The aggregation of data on what people are reading is a significant break with the centuries-old American tradition of vigorous protections of reader privacy.
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Tagged commons, open content, Open Education, openness, public domain
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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Tagged K-12, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
Kirsty Pitkin has a new post providing an overview of what happened at OER Hack Day. There are several videos posted as well. From the post:
The OER Hack Day event was jointly organised by JISC CETIS and DevCSI. Participants came from a variety of backgrounds and levels of technical expertise, and included academics, learning technologists, repository managers, developers, and librarians from UK institutions such as Harper Adams, Oxford, Nottingham, East Riding College, the Open University, and other organisations such as Creative Commons, the Learning Registry, Open Michigan, and TechDis.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Audrey Watters has a new post on the 10 ways OpenCourseWare has “freed” education. From the post:
The decision by the MIT faculty in 2001 to allow anyone to use their course content was a seminal move, one that had a profound effect on democratizing education.
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Sir John Daniel has a new post on whether educators are willing to share. From the post:
The possibilities of opening up universities on new dimensions became clear a decade ago when the Internet burst into the public consciousness in the dot.com frenzy at the turn of the millennium.
Thanks to Stephen Downes for the link.
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Stephen Downes and David Wiley are participating in debate regarding the commercial use of open educational resources.
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