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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “OER”

• (EQR) Consumer Price Index Rose Moderately

  
  Stock Blog Hub — Authority: 458
  The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported this morning that the Consumer Price Index ( CPI ) rose by 0.4% in November, following increases of 0.3% in October and 0.2% in September. Relative to a year ago, prices are up 1.8%. That is a big jump from last month, but that is due to big declines in the CPI from a year ago ...
  23 hours ago

• SAIDE Launches OER Policy

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 140
  Tony Bates is reporting that OER Africa is now part of SAIDE (South African Association of Distance Education). As a result, SAIDE is now launching a new OER policy. From the post: SAIDE will become a member of the Open CourseWare Consortium and other relevant fora as appropriate in order to ensure that it becomes ...
  3 days ago

• Author’s Perspective on Open Textbooks

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 140
  Last month OEN reported on a webinar regarding open textbooks. Slides (PDF) are now available from that presentation.
  3 days ago

• Weekly Wrap: BBC Digital Revolution, Creating Word of Mouth Buzz, 2010 Online Community Predictions, Perpetual Beta, Robots Attack & More!

  
  Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot — Authority: 468
  5 Triggers for Igniting Online Word of Mouth">5 Triggers for Creating Online Word of Mouth : Word of Mouth is clearly one of the fastest growing sectors inmarketing. PQ Media’s recent study has it growing 14.2% in 2008 to$1.54B and expects it to reach $3B by 2013. Powering that growth aresocial technologies ...
  5 days ago

• Big OER/Little OER

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 140
  Martin Weller has posted on the difference between “big OER,” which are projects like MIT OCW, and “little OER,” that are individual projects. From the post: I’ve come to appreciate the value of university generated OERs, because they help address the three factors I set out above and also because they ...
  6 days ago

• 50 OpenCourseWare Courses For Web Designers

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 140
  Designer City, USA has posted 50 links to OpenCourseWare courses for web designers/developers. Thanks to Delicious50 for the link.
  6 days ago

• More on MIT OCW Finances

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 140
  Two days ago OEN reported on an article at The Tech as well as accompanying commentary by David Wiley. Wiley has a new post with some clarifications. Steve Carson comments below the post. From the post: If MIT OCW is going to adopt a “Click to Enroll” business model, then chances are that we can stop ...
  6 days ago

• OER and RSS

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 140
  Lorna Campbell has posted on the advantages and disadvantages of using RSS to post OER repository content. From the post: One early requirement that has emerged is the need for bulk deposit and a request from some projects that this may be partially fulfilled by ingest of RSS feeds. Sounds simple enough but as with ...
  6 days ago

• OER Version Control

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 140
  John Robertson has posted on version control for OER. Robertson argues that in the case of OER, maintaining distinctions and enforcing them is too difficult. From the post: Proposal: those releasing OERs should not invest undue effort in attempting to maintain version control over copies of their material other ...
  6 days ago

• Sustainability For MIT OCW?

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 140
  Ryan T. Normandin has published an article through The Tech on the state of MIT OCW. Normandin reviews common arguments against MIT OCW and puts forth counter-arguments. From the article: MIT should continue to support OCW because it is the first step to promoting free public education at a higher level than grade ...
  1 week ago

• Managing OERs: the problem of version control?

  
  John's JISC CETIS blog — Authority: 99
  Proposal: those releasing OERs should not invest undue effort in attempting to maintain version control over copies of their material other than those they directly manage. This post looks at one possible administrative or management concern or challenges emerging from the technical side of working with Open ...
  1 week ago

• OER, RSS and JorumOpen

  
  Lorna's JISC CETIS blog — Authority: 446
  Many of you who have an interest in open education resources and the Academy / JISC OER Pilot Programme will already be following the development of JorumOpen . JorumOpen will enable users worldwide to search, browse and download open educational resources deposited by UK Further and Higher Education Institutions ...
  1 week ago

• New Policy Allows Utah Teachers to License Materials

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 140
  David Wiley has posted on a policy change in which teachers are now permitted to license their materials with a Creative Commons license. From the post: I haven’t done an in-depth review of state policies, but I believe that Utah is one of the first (if not the very first) to formally adopt language (a) saying ...
  1 week ago

• LOP2P: Architecture for Institutional Learning Objects Sharing

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 140
  An interesting technology was developed and is under adoption process in Brazil. The architecture, developed by Rafael de Santiago and André Raabe, is designed to connect educational institutions interested in sharing and use of Learning Objects through a single network, named LOP2P (Learning Object Peer to Peer). ...
  1 week ago

• University of Ottawa Adopts Commitment to Open Access

  
  Michael Geist Blog — Authority: 674
  There is some exciting news at the University of Ottawa as it has become the first major Canadian research university to announce a comprehensive open access strategy . As part of the announcement, the University has joined the Compact for Open Access Publishing .  It is the first non-U.S. school to do so, ...
  1 week ago

• Vital Signs Goes CC BY

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 140
  Jane Park at Creative Commons is reporting that the website Vital Signs is moving to CC BY. The website is a collaborative effort between researchers and junior high students. From the post: The new site “provides a digital platform, including social networking tools, to facilitate a fluid exchange of knowledge ...
  1 week ago

• Choosing an Open Platform for Open Textbooks

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 140
  Karen Fasimpaur has a new post asking which open platform would be best for open textbooks. From the post: While Moodle seems like a good LMS for my purposes, it seems like we’d need a front-end development CMS to host content in.
  1 week ago

• On the Future of Art History (& the Humanities) Outside the Walls

  
  Smarthistory: The Blog — Authority: 99
  Last week, Beth and I delivered a paper on the future of higher education at an experimental conference in ScienceSim , an Open Sim virtual world supported by Intel. The conference went off quite well thanks to Shenlei Winkler , its thoughtful and extremely capable organizer. We titled our presentation “The ...
  1 week ago

• “OER’s Quadrant”

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 140
  David Wiley has a new post outlining “OER’s Quadrant,” which is a way of measuring the value of open educational resources. This post is a follow-up to his previous one on the “ golden ratio .”
  1 week ago

• Amazon.com Launches Textbook Trade-In

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 140
  Simmi Aujla at The Chronicle of Higher Education: Wired Campus is reporting that Amazon.com will be starting a trade-in program for textbooks. The program is seen as competing for bookstores. The implications for open textbooks is unknown, though changes in buy-back rates may affect financial benefit arguments. ...
  1 week ago

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