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• Free Resources are Not Always Open Resources

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 437
  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. ...
  1 week ago

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

  
  ModCool — Authority: 455
  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 ...
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• OER: Promise and Pitfalls

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 437
  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 ...
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• Online and free ≠ open

  
  K12 Open Ed — Authority: 91
  Newsweek ran an article this week about online courses.  This article provided some publicity for the OER movement…except that the article really wasn’t about OER. The article said, in part, “In addition to YouTube EDU, Web sites like iTunes U, TED, and Academic Earth allow millions of people to download ...
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• Newsweek Covers OER

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 437
  Ginanne Brownell at Newsweek has a new article providing an overview of OER. The projects covered include YouTube EDU , iTunes U and Academic Earth . From the article: “There is a real appetite for content that is not just a sneezing-cat video,” says Peter Bradwell, a researcher for the British academic think ...
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• Using Wikipedia to Find OCW

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 437
  Stian Haklev has a new post discussing an effort to include links in Wikipedia to OCW. From the post: I think this is a brilliant initiative! It’s a great way to improve the “findability” of these resources, and contributes to demolish the idea that Wikipedia is not suitable to education.
  2 weeks ago

• Combining OERs with Wikipedia – a winning combination

  
  Random Stuff that Matters — Authority: 407
  I love when different “open” movements can come together and mutually enhance each other, whether it’s using open source software for the production of open educational materials, or using CC-licensed music when creating a CC-licensed documentary. John Willinsky , who recently gave a talk at OISE as part of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Korean teachers make $10 million/year by producing online resources

  
  Random Stuff that Matters — Authority: 407
  I just came across a newsreport on the Swedish television site (in Swedish) about “top teachers” in Korea. This teachers work at the different cram schools, and their lessons are also filmed and made available online for a subscription fee. Some of these teachers have become virtual superstars, making more than ...
  2 weeks ago

• List of Recorded Lecture Sites

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 437
  Donald Clark has a new post providing a list of websites that provide recorded lectures. Clark lists many projects familiar to persons in open education such as YouTube EDU and iTunes U. From the post: Suddenly a huge amount of good content is available on the web, for free, as some of the biggest brands on the web ...
  3 weeks ago

• OCW Spurs Competition

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 437
  Bill Tucker at the Quick and the Ed has a new post responding to criticisms of the Obama administration’s plans to fund OER for high school and community college courses ( reported by OEN ). Tucker argues that the funding will not reduce competition, but increase it. From the post: In fact, given the rigidity of ...
  4 weeks ago

• OCW Development at Georgetown

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 437
  Lillian Kaiser at The Georgetown Voice has a new article on OpenCourseWare development at Georgetown. Kaiser contrasts MIT OCW’s resources with Georgetown, which has one graduate student allocated for its efforts. From the article: “We’ve got the lemonade stand set up, so to speak. That’s all it is right ...
  4 weeks ago

• OCW and Sustainability

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 437
  Marc Perry at The Chronicle of Higher Education has a new article on OpenCourseWare and sustainability. Perry provides perspectives from David Wiley and Steve Carson, among others. From the article: “With the economic downturn, I think it will be a couple of years before Yale or other institutions are likely to ...
  4 weeks ago

• Open Ed. Literacies

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 437
  Mike Bogle has a new post on “open education literacies.” Bogle suggests that limitation of OER is the lack of learning network around it, and therefore open education literacy should be about building a learning network around it. From the post: Mind you I’m not trying to be prescriptive about what open ...
  4 weeks ago

• Recap of TU Delft OCW Seminar

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 437
  In August OEN reported on an upcoming OCW seminar at Tu Delft. Willem Van Valkenburg has a new post giving a recap on the seminar. From the post: It was an interesting seminar with a good programme and interesting discussions. It gave me a lot of energy to further develop our TU Delft OpenCourseWare. Update: ...
  4 weeks ago

• UC Irvine Receives $320,000 from the Hewlett Foundation

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 437
  Reuters is reporting that the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation is giving $320,000 to UC Irvine for OpenCourseWare efforts. From the article: The grant from the Hewlett Foundation will support the staffing and planningnecessary for the University to grow its own OCW initiative, while also actively participating ...
  8 weeks ago

• Kabinet wil een innovatieve en ondernemende creatieve industrie

  
  31Volts — Authority: 108
  Dit is de titel van een persbericht dat gisteren is uitgebracht door het Ministerie van Economische zaken . Het Kabinet wil een innovatieve en ondernemende creatieve industrie in Nederland waarvan de producten en diensten breed worden benut, zowel economisch, cultureel als maatschappelijk. Dat staat in het ‘ ...
  8 weeks ago

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