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• McGrigor tables Parliamentary Motion on Mid Argyll Swimming Pool

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 144
  Jamie McGrigor, Highlands & Islands MSP this morning (11th November) tabled the following Parliamentary Motion on the Mid Argyll Swimming Pool in Lochgilphead. Apart from the subject matter, it’s interesting to see the way these motions are formally presented. Take a deep breath and dive in.Short Title: Future ...
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• Success and Challenges in OER

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 437
  Heather R. Pena has published a paper on successes and challenges in in adopting and developing OER. From the article: Many leading institutions in higher education adopted the OER platform and face many challenges in this modern day world including: the rapid growth of technology, globalism, licensing, economic, ...
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• Open Education in South Africa

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 437
  Michael Adeyeye has posted video of a presentation on open education in South Africa.
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• OER in Middle Schools

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 437
  Curriki has posted presentation material related to OER in middle schools. The presentation was given at National Middle School Association 2009.
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• Special Issue of IRRODL

  
  iterating toward openness — Authority: 395
  The new, special issue of IRRODL on Openness and the Future of Higher Education is available now at http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/issue/view/38 . Here’s the introduction John Hilton and I wrote for the special issue: Once considered to be mostly hype, the idea of open education has spread to hundreds of ...
  2 days ago

• Super OER

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 437
  The Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) has a new post summarizing the definition of “super OER.”
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• P2PU Minus Copyright

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 437
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• List of Open Textbooks

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 437
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• Presenting with live slides – OER, literacies, libraries and the future preso

  
  Dave's Educational Blog — Authority: 448
  Had a great presentation yesterday and though i’d take the opportunity to lay out what i did and how the process of building live slides works. It’s pretty simple really. The theory Well… it may be a surprise to my mom… but i don’t know everything. Not even close. There’s a sense in which being invited ...
  5 days ago

• DepoST : what would a repository deposit tool look like for learning materials?

  
  John's JISC CETIS blog — Authority: 98
  The morning sessions a the recent JISCRI deposit tools show and tell meeting in London (DepoST) offered a whirlwind of elevator pitches for the many existing repository deposit tools. Details of the tools from the pitches have been neatly captured by David Flanders on the JISCinvolve blog. ...
  6 days ago

• Preparing OER for Search Engines

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 437
  Jane Park at Creative Commons has a new post announcing a guide for preparing open educational resources for search engines. In particular the guide is directed towards submission in Creative Commons’s search engine, DiscoverEd . From the post: It [the guide] is a basic guide for those interested in preparing ...
  6 days ago

• 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. ...
  6 days ago

• Open Source: a Few Years Later

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 437
  Matt Asay at CNET has a new post on the struggles of open source in the past few years. Parallels can be drawn to OER. From the post: Open source is no longer a question of “why” but rather one of “how.” It’s the way the industry does business, and the way it does development.
  6 days ago

• Notes from the web: Making Standards that Work and a Sordid History of Learning Object Repositories

  
  John's JISC CETIS blog — Authority: 98
  A few quick items of interest form the web this week. Two offer a perspective of the process of making standards (looking at OAI-PMH); another is an interview with Brian Lamb reviewing the history of Learning Object Repositories. Talking to DC [Washington] (Adam Bosworth, Adam Bosworth’s Weblog ) In a post based ...
  1 week ago

• CETIS Conference: OER Technical Roundtable

  
  Lorna's JISC CETIS blog — Authority: 91
  Only four days to go until the CETIS Conference and we’re already starting to draw up a list of issues to explore at the OER Technical Roundtable. The aim of this session is to give OER Projects techies and other interested folk an opportunity to come together to discuss technical issues that they have ...
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• Presentation prep/notes for -> Open Educational Resources – A potential foundation for the future.

  
  Dave's Educational Blog — Authority: 448
  Thursday November 5th, 4pm Eastern NA. GLOBAL TIMES In May i had the wonderful opportunity to try a live slide build as part of the WIAOC (webheads in action online convergence). They were a great crowd, and the build was awesome. It was the first success that I’ve had with that kind of live interactive slide ...
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• Textbook Graveyard at University of Washington

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 437
  Earlier this year OEN reported on a “textbook graveyard” at the University of New Mexico. The Daily of the University of Washington is reporting that a similar textbook graveyard was held at their campus recently. From the article: “Most [textbook] publishers build in obsolescence by coming out with a new ...
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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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• Open Education Call to Action

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 437
  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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