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Flat World Knowledge Releases Customization Platform for Their Textbooks
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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
Social Inclusion Through OER
Gráinne Conole has started a page on Cloudworks to discuss social inclusion through open educational resources.
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Incentives to Use OER
A mindmap has been posted on incentives to use open educational resources.
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Pay Per View Access Model Rejected
Paul Jump has a new post on a recent report about alternate models of journal publishing. From the post:
The report rejects a number of alternative proposals for wider access put forward by publishers. These include offering UK-wide access licences for subscription journals, which it deems too expensive for universities, and “pay-per-view” models, which are considered unlikely to lead to substantial increases in access.
Note: OEN is indebted to the OATP project on Connotea for many of its open access stories.
Access to Scientific Knowledge
George Siemens has a new post on Lawrence Lessig’s recent focus on open access. From the post:
An academic doesn’t get paid to produce an article – at least not directly. She publishes because it’s part of her work and her research. However, once published, access to her work is essentially blocked as only those libraries and universities that have purchased access can make the article available to students.
Related: a post at Discover magazine on how to access scientific papers for free.
Need for Credit in Open Science
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
The Longevity of Content
Glyn Moody has a new post wondering how to preserve content in the long-term. From the post:
Doubtless at some point some sharp entrepreneur will interpret this coming need as an opportunity. Just as you can pay a company to keep your cryogenically-preserved body against the day when a cure will be found for whatever ailment you eventually die of, so there will be companies offering digital immortality for your content.
More on OERGlue
Nottingham University have posted a presentation by Joel Duffin on OERGlue.
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