Openness

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Openness”

• UAE wins media award

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Geneva, Nov 21 (IANS)The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has won an award for the openness of its media environment, WAM news agency reported Saturday.The prize is given by the Public Opinion Research Foundation based in Zurich and isbased on criteria including the quality of information, as well as the topics covered and ...
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• Shocker: Ars, Hollywood agree on need for ACTA openness

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 161
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• Wikipedia’s ‘increasing focus on quality and referencing’

  
  Sociology Lens — Authority: 127
  by paulabowles Many lecturers and teachers will recognise the feeling of disheartenment when confronted by an undergraduate essay containing multiple references to Wikipedia. Despite regular exhortations for students to resist its charms, its appeal seems almost overwhelming. Although the site is loved by many, its ...
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• CC Chair Responds to NY Times Article

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 439
  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 ...
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• Follow-Up on Lessig Interview

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 439
  Last month OEN reported that Creative Commons founder Larry Lessig was interviewed by 7th graders. Jane Park at Creative Commons has posted an interview with the teacher who arranged the original interview with Lessig. From the post: Mr. Mayo and his class have integrated CC licensed works into their daily ...
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• Mashing OER Wiki

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 439
  “laurapasquini” has tweeted about a wiki page on mashing up OER. The wiki provides a workflow, list of tools and relevant URLs.
  2 days ago

• A Pedagogy of Abundance

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 439
  “Michelle” has a new post recapping a recent talk by Martin Weller titled “OER and a Pedagogy of Abundance.” From the post: Shared exploration and collaboration works well with the “guide on the side” metaphor, where you have subject expert mentors who help create “paths” through the sea of content, ...
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• Open University Hits 10 Million Downloads on iTunes

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 439
  Vicky Woollaston is reporting that the Open University has reached 10 million downloads on iTunes.
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• Plan for WikiEducator/Connexions Interoperability Announced

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 439
  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.
  3 days ago

• Open Video Contest

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 439
  Josh Levy has announced the open video contest. The contest is to create a 60-second or less video that explains why open video is important. The top winner will receive a free trip to SXSW 2010 . From the post: Our panel of judges (including web luminaries like Mitchell Baker, Jimmy Wales, and Jesse Dylan) will ...
  3 days ago

• Technology and MOOCs

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 439
  Antonio Fini has published an article in the most recent issue of The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL) . The article reports on survey results from the Connectivism and Connective Knowledge (CCK08) course. From the abstract: Findings from a survey of CCK08 participants show ...
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• Five Common-Sense Steps to Change a Broken Congress

  
  Big Government — Authority: 815
  The American people have had it with “business as usual” in Congress.  They are fed up with practices such as tucking special-interest provisions into bills behind closed doors, secretly changing bills without a vote, and passing bills no one has read.  This has happened for far too long, but never before has ...
  3 days ago

• Free Culture Forum: Getting it Together

  
  open... — Authority: 556
  As regular readers will know, I write a lot about the related areas of openness, freedom, transparency and the commons, but its rare to find them literally coming together like this, in the Free Culture Forum : Across the planet, people are recognizing the need for an international space to build and coordinate a ...
  4 days ago

• CIRM Releases Bank Info That It Once Withheld

  
  California Stem Cell Report — Authority: 135
  The California stem cell agency late today released information on a $250,000 contract with Square 1 bank that the agency previously had refused to disclose at the request of Square 1.The move was prompted by inquiries from the California Stem Cell Report about the withholding of the information, which is public ...
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• CIRMs Openness Failures Raise Broader Questions

  
  California Stem Cell Report — Authority: 135
  The chairman of the California stem cell agency, Robert Klein, frequently is given to declaring that the $3 billion research effort adheres to the highest standards of openness and transparency.Recently, however, the agency has had difficulty even complying with the basic state public records law and the state ...
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• Stuff worth reading about openness

  
  Quixotic Quisling — Authority: 120
  I maintain another blog called Open Season which is all about openness and open source. I’ve been using it to share links to articles, along with a sample quote each time. Each post takes 25 seconds or so with Tumblr. I wrote about it here in June 2009 . Just mentioning it again as some of the recent articles ...
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• Defining Open

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 439
  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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• Openness in the Digital Divide

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 439
  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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• Anna Faris Also in Another Horribly Titled Movie

  
  [CinemaRatty] Latest Articles — Authority: 168
  Remember how annoying girls about a decade ago would sometimes be like, "Yikes, tee em eye! (Too much information!)" Well, someone thought that would make a good title for a modern feature film, and Ryan Reynolds and Anna Faris will be starring in it: Universal Pictures has acquired "TMI," a comic vehicle for Ryan ...
  5 days ago

• Iran faces ‘consequences’ in nuclear issue: Obama (AFP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 474
  AFP – China and the United States agreed that Iran faced “consequences” if it resisted greater openness on its nuclear programme, US President Barack Obama said Tuesday after talks with China’s Hu Jintao. More: (AFP)"> (AFP)">Iran faces ‘consequences’ in nuclear issue: Obama (AFP)
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