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• Notre Dame OCW on iTunes U

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 143
  Julie Hail Flory at Notre Dame is announcing that their OCW is now available on iTunes U. From the announcement: Notre Dame on iTunes U contains more than 600 free, downloadable audio and video files representing academics, research, campus life, faith and service, as well as a variety of offerings from Notre Dame ...
  2 days ago

• Money Awarded For Open Textbooks Assisting Persons With Disabilities

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 143
  TechAggregator.com is reporting that the company Benetech has received $100,000 from the U.S. Federal government to create open textbooks for persons with disabilities. From the post: The math and science textbooks are freely distributable under a Creative Commons license. The textbooks, which have been approved ...
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• OER and Educational Development

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 143
  Dave Cormier has posted on OER and educational development. Cormier questions the usefulness of OER repositories. From the article: Being open need not be complicated, it doesn’t need to be organized, nor does it even need to be funded. It has to respond to a need that exists. Simple solutions may require a 10% ...
  4 days ago

• OCWC Newsletter November 2009

  
  OCW Blog — Authority: 402
  OCWC Global 2010: Educational Policy and OCW The 2010 Annual OCWC Global Meeting will take place in Hanoi, Vietnam. Vietnam OCW has presented itself as a unique government-run initiative and is having a great impact on education in Vietnam. The conference website will be ready in early December at ...
  5 days ago

• Future OCW Webinars

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 143
  Meena Hwang has a new post listing upcoming OCW webinars.
  5 days ago

• MIT Linear Algebra, Lecture 1: The Geometry of Linear Equations

  
  good coders code, great reuse — Authority: 509
  This is going to be my summary of the freely available * Linear Algebra course from MIT. I watched the lectures of this course in the summer of 2008. This was not the first time I learned linear algebra. I had already had two terms of linear algebra when I studied physics back in 2004. But it was not enough for a ...
  6 days ago

• Innovative OER Projects Presentation

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 143
  Stian Haklev has posted a recording of his presentation on “innovative” OER projects. From the post: …I decided to focus more on why these different projects were set up, what their purpose is, who runs them, and how they are sustained financially. Note: YouTube is listed among the repositories, though it ...
  6 days ago

• Recap of P2P U Workshop

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 143
  Jane Park has posted, on the blog “Opinions of Open,” a recap of a Peer-to-Peer University meeting in Berlin. From the post: I think in the end that is the crux of P2PU, that it’s made up of and run by volunteers–people who are willing to risk their time and effort to realize a vision that may not be ...
  6 days ago

• Upcoming Webinars

  
  OCW Blog — Authority: 402
  The next OCWC webinar will be held on December 3rd at 10AM EST. We have Larry Cooperman, Director of the University of California, Irvine OpenCourseWare project, giving a talk on how to increase visibility of an OCW project. The UC Irvine has implemented a “hub-and-spoke” system of OCW distribution. Search engine ...
  6 days ago

• CC Chair Responds to NY Times Article

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 143
  Last week the New York Times ran an article on teachers selling educational resources online. Mike Linksvayer has pointed to response at The Huffington Post from the Board Chair of Creative Commons, Esther Wojcicki. From Wojcicki’s post: Professor McDonald need not worry because most teachers tend to share ...
  1 week ago

• Free Technology Academy

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 143
  Wytze Koopal has tweeted about the launch of Free Technology Academy. The courses can viewed and taken freely, but teaching support will only be provided to enrolled students. From the announcement : The Free Technology Academy opens its doors to students. The registration process for the first 2 courses has ...
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• 50 Best OpenCourseWare Collections

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 143
  “Linda” has posted a list of the top 50 OpenCourseWare collections. The rankings are apparently not in order of quality, but to type and geographic location.
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• Plan for WikiEducator/Connexions Interoperability Announced

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 143
  Wayne Mackintosh has announced, via mailing list , that WikiEducator and Connexions will be collaborating for greater interoperability. From the e-mail: Gee — you gotta love open philanthropy! Let’s make OER remix and interoperability futures happen for education. Thanks to Brian Lamb for the link.
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• Defining Open

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 143
  David Wiley has a new post attempting to define open. Wiley argues that openness is a continuum, not a binary concept. From the post: A door can be wide open, completely shut, or open part way. So can a window. So can a faucet. So can your eyes. Our commonsense, every day experience teaches us that “open” is ...
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• Agile OER Workflow

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 143
  David Porter has posted a diagram done by Lisa Rogers showing an “agile” OER workflow. From Porter’s post: While searching using “simple, easy, agile” and other adjectives to describe “OER workflow,” I finally got a hit that made sense. Thanks to Stephen Downes for the link.
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• Openness in the Digital Divide

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 143
  Andy Lane has published a new article in the recent issue of The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL) . Lane reviews social, cultural and other factors that inhibit people from taking advantage of openness. From the abstract: …while in principle there may be greater degrees of ...
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• Future of OER

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 143
  FOSSLC has posted video of Rory McGreal (Associate Vice President, Research at Athabasca University) speaking on the future of open educational resources.
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• Free Resources are Not Always Open Resources

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 143
  Last week OEN reported on an article at Newsweek about OER. Karen Fasimpaur has a new post criticizing the article for covering free resources that are not open. From the post: While the article does talk about MIT’s OpenCourseWare and a couple other open projects, it is really about free online courses. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Quad-Interface Blu-Ray Burner Surfaces at 12x Speed

  
  ModCool — Authority: 159
  OWC has introduced a quad-interface Blu-ray burner that uses a Pioneer BDR-205 . You will never be short of options with the Mercury Pro 12x Blu-ray burner as it supports four different interfaces: FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB 2.0 and eSATA. It ships with a cable each four all the interfaces that it supports. It ...
  3 weeks ago

• OER: Promise and Pitfalls

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 143
  The Commonwealth of Learning has a new post on the “the promise and the pitfalls” of open educational resources. From the article: One of the criticisms of OERs is around the issue of “information imperialism” – there is concern that OERs are largely created in the developed world and imposed on the ...
  3 weeks ago

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