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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “oer”

• Putting Lessons Within Teachers’ Reach

  
  Literacy is Priceless — Authority: 412
  This was an exciting week for my company Bon Education and our parner Curriki in the Middle East, as interest continues to grow in our efforts to create an Arabic version of Curriki –i.e. an open source platform that would house open source Arabic language curricula and learning objects created by teachers and ...
  18 hours ago

• 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 ...
  1 day 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 ...
  1 day ago

• Teaching Psychology Through Open Materials

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 143
  Kelvin Seifert has posted on places to find open educational resources relating to psychology.
  2 days ago

• 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% ...
  3 days ago

• Response to Defining ‘Open’

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 143
  Last week OEN reported on a post by David Wiley defining openness. Stephen Downes now has a post in response. From Downes’ post: My perspective is that each of these, and large swaths of Wiley’s own position, represent efforts by corporations to own what we might call free and/or open content, and to make it ...
  4 days ago

• Future OCW Webinars

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 143
  Meena Hwang has a new post listing upcoming OCW webinars.
  4 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 ...
  5 days ago

• 5 Reasons to Dislike iTunes U

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 143
  Jim Groom has a new post giving five reasons he dislikes iTunes U. From the post: …ITunesU is not a place for community, context, or collaboration. What is interesting about the web is not that you can get something, but that you can participate and dialogue around something.
  5 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 ...
  5 days ago

• Observations on OER

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 143
  Cathy Anderson has a new post giving her thoughts on OER. The post discusses social networking, OER reuse and other related issues. Note that some of the repositories listed in the post are free, but not necessarily permissively licensed. From the post: I have often heard the statement made…there is no evidence ...
  5 days ago

• Beyond Textbooks: Digital Learning Resources as Systemic Innovation in the Nordic Countries

  
  frepa.blog — Authority: 100
  Beyond Textbooks: Digital Learning Resources as Systemic Innovation in the Nordic Countries is a new report from OECD Technology is a key driver of educational innovation, and a variety of programmes focusing on investment in infrastructure, equipment, in-service training and digital learning resources have been ...
  5 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

• Mashing OER Wiki

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 143
  “laurapasquini” has tweeted about a wiki page on mashing up OER. The wiki provides a workflow, list of tools and relevant URLs.
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• A Pedagogy of Abundance

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 143
  “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, ...
  1 week ago

• 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.
  1 week ago

• An interesting tracking case study…

  
  Lorna's JISC CETIS blog — Authority: 112
  Earlier this afternoon my colleague Phil Barker led a fascinating Elluminate session exploring resource tracking issues for the JISC / HEA Open Educational Resources Programme. One approach to tracking Phil raised was the use of unique keys or tag combinations which are embedded in resources and then released into ...
  1 week ago

• (F) Consumer Price Index Up on Cars and Energy

  
  Stock Blog Hub — Authority: 164
  The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for October rose by 0.3%, a little bit hotter than the 0.2% that was expected. If one strips out volatile food and energy prices to get the core consumer price index, prices were up 0.2%, also one tick higher than the 0.1% expected. A rise in energy prices was not unexpected. Heck, ...
  1 week ago

• 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.
  1 week ago

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