Openness

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• Anglican Communion of U.K. first to accept Pope’s offer

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 133
  Members of The Traditional Anglican Church in Great Britain have announced that they will enter into communion with the Vatican under Pope Benedict XVI’s Apostolic Constitution for Anglicans, reports Catholic News Agency.According to the group’s website, members met on October 29 for their October 2009 Assembly. ...
  15 hours ago

• Google plays the openness card

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 598
  While Apple has blocked the Someecards app because some of the cards have made fun of public figures, Google has asked the app to port on over to Android phones. (BTW, I got a Droid today.)
  19 hours ago

• P2PU Minus Copyright

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  Leigh Blackall has a new post giving feedback to Peer-2-Peer University with regards to copyright. Blackall suggests that avoid any trappings of copyright and focus on sharing. From the post: P2PU wants to be a network, made up of individual action and responsibility. As such P2PU should not impose a particular ...
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• List of Open Textbooks

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  Judy Baker has a new post indicating a list of open textbooks has been updated to reflect new projects. Full list available here . From the post: ven if you have already visited the OER Consortium list of open textbooks before, consider revisiting because dozens of open textbooks were newly posted for a variety of ...
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• Desire2Learn Delivers IMS Basic Learning Tools Interoperability (BLTI) Support

  
  e-Literate — Authority: 414
  In other IMS news, Desire2Learn has announced that they are the first LMS provider to support BLTI, a specification designed to support plugging third-party tools into an LMS. According to the press release , here’s what’s included: Management interfaces to define integrations to external learning tools (Tool ...
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• More on the Tale of Three Terminations

  
  California Stem Cell Report — Authority: 433
  Some confusion has arisen in connection with a story in the Scientist magazine concerning our account of the termination of three grants by the California stem cell agency.In an attempt to clarify the situation, we are providing more information on the decision by the California Stem Cell Report to withhold the names ...
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• open adoption roundtable: on openness

  
  life from here: musings from the edge — Authority: 112
  The most recent prompt by Heather at the Open Adoption Roundtable asks open adoption bloggers whether they agree with some common critiques about openness in adoption. The views cited share one thing in common, “a certain point-of-view: that direct contact during early childhood between birth families and ...
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• OER: Promise and Pitfalls

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  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 days ago

• Polish Cultural Education Program Gives Incentives for Openness

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  Michelle Thorne at Creative Commons is reporting that The Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage is giving extra consideration to grants that use open licenses in its projects. From the post: The program, with a budget of 11,5 million Polish zloty (about 4 million Euro), will fund educational projects ...
  3 days ago

• An Opportunity to Open Up Institutional Data?

  
  UK Web Focus — Authority: 116
  It was while I was waiting for the bus home last night and skimming though the afternoon’s tweets that I noticed here had been a lot of activity around Lord Mandelson’s announcement of a major modernisation of England’s degree system. Alan Cann’s tweet , in particular, caught my eye: RT @ 1994group Not ...
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• Open Education Call to Action

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  Larry Johnson has a new post announcing a list of action items developed for open education at the Open EdTech Summit 2009 . The action items are broad recommendations such as increasing remixing and sharing. From the post: The attendees noted that the task of reinventing higher education is complex, and the road ...
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• Are PDFs Bad For Transparency?

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  Clay Johnson has a new post arguing that PDFs do not allow for truly transparent access because of its proprietary format. From the post: Flash isn’t off the hook either. Government has spent lots of time and money developing flash tools to allow citizens to view charts and graphs online, and while we’re happy ...
  4 days ago

• Study Indicates That Med. Students Share Closed Journal Articles

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  “Soulxtc” of the site ZeroPaid is reporting that medical students are sharing non-open access journal articles among one another. The results come from monitoring traffic from a P2P site. From the post: …there was no overt sense of “vindictiveness” against copyright holders in the forums, but rather “a ...
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• Introduction to Fair Use

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  Patrick Woessner has a new post providing an introduction to fair use. The post includes links to other resources. From the post: Two common misconceptions among students (and teachers) are (1) online resources that don’t display a copyright symbol are not protected by copyright and (2) any copyrighted resource ...
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• WIPO Boss: ACTA Should be Open, Transparent

  
  open... — Authority: 549
  Wow : On the secretive Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, Gurry said that WIPO too did not know a great deal about the talks. “Naturally we prefer open, transparent international processes to arrive at conclusions that are of concern to the whole world,” he said, citing WIPO’s role as an international, ...
  5 days ago

• Book on Access to Knowledge

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  Gavin Baker at Open Access News is reporting on a new book about access to knowledge. The book is 95 pages long and is available for free as a PDF .
  5 days ago

• The Cost of Journal PDFs

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  Andy, The Open Source Paleontologist , has a new post on the price of electronic journal articles. Andy complains about the high cost and gives some suggested workarounds. From the post: …I’m not shy about saying that the current system stinks. No matter how you slice it, $30 for a PDF article is unaffordable ...
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• Reflections on Barcelona

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  Alan Levine has a new post giving his reflections on the Open EdTech 2009 Summit . The post provides interesting insights into conference backchannels. From the post: Now at probably any week of the year, there is some group, meeting, conference, online discussion, class of people sitting around trying to suss out ...
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• OER and the Digital Division

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  Sue Watling has a new post on the “digital division” between those who want openness and those who do not. From the post: Challenging the gatekeepers of knowledge – and their licence locking mechanisms – will need lateral thinking; not releasing the knowledge already imprisoned but rethinking the way that ...
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• Administration Releases More Visitor Logs

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 133
  On Friday, the Obama administration released another set of visitor logs .  The list of 110 White House guests was compiled from public requests and includes names such as Brad Pitt, Jesse Jackson, and several business leaders.  This release is a positive step toward building a system of government transparency ...
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