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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “open content”

• UOC: Open Social Learning

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 142
  The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya is hosting a seminar on “open social learning” Nov. 30 – Dec. 1. Participants will include George Siemens and Stephen Downes. The seminar can be followed on Twitter . From the announcement: At the seminar, research and practices related to OSL based on the application of ...
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• Notre Dame OCW on iTunes U

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 142
  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 ...
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• Money Awarded For Open Textbooks Assisting Persons With Disabilities

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 142
  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 ...
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• Openness and the World Wide Web Foundation

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 142
  Glyn Moody has written on Tim Berner’s Lee new organization, the World Wide Web Foundation and how it relates to openness. From the article: Open content, too, would be a natural choice for sharing materials, although the World Wide Web Foundation won’t be forcing this on creators, who will be free to choose ...
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• Open Ed. Presentation at U of Queensland

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 142
  Tim Kastell has posted a 22-minute presentation on open education at the Univesity of Queensland.
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• Openness as the Foundation for Global Change

  
  open... — Authority: 558
  What do you do after Inventing the Web? Thats not a question most of us have to face, but it is for Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Heading up the World Wide Web Consortium to oversee the Webs development was a natural move, but valuable as its work has been, theres no denying that it has been sidelined somewhat by the rather ...
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• 2010 Horizon Report Preview

  
  2CoolTools — Authority: 100
  Horizon Report 2010 preview The New Media Consortium released its list of six Horizon Report Topics for 2010 ( PDF file ) and the Horizon Report 2010 Preview ( PDF file ). It is "must reading" each year. Read it. Share it. Discuss it. The reports were originally for a higher education audience but now has a ...
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• Teaching Psychology Through Open Materials

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 142
  Kelvin Seifert has posted on places to find open educational resources relating to psychology.
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• Wikipedia Volunteers Leaving

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 142
  Julia Angwin and Geoffrey A. Fowler are reporting in the Wall Street Journal that many Wikipedia volunteers are leaving in record number. Increasing layers of bureaucracy and fatigue over fighting are cited as possible reasons. From the article: “People generally have this idea that the wisdom of crowds is a ...
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• OER and Educational Development

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 142
  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% ...
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• OER, Trademarks and CC BY

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 142
  Jane Park is announcing the first in a series of “advanced topics” relating to Creative Commons. The document explains the relationship between rights, trademark and OER. From the post: For OER organizations with a strong trademark, or with the plans and capacity to build and sustain one, this primer is a ...
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• Language OER Lagging in Canada?

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 142
  Steve Kaufmann has a new post criticizing Canada for its lack of OER relating to foreign languages. From the post: Then I returned to Vancouver, back to earth, back to Canada, where a language “cosa nostra” decides what learners are allowed to do.
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• Response to Defining ‘Open’

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 142
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• Future OCW Webinars

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 142
  Meena Hwang has a new post listing upcoming OCW webinars.
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• Google Chrome OS Benchmarked Against Ubuntu and Moblin, Comes Up Slow [Chrome Os]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 541
    Chrome OS dev code only just went public , but Phoronix has already thrown it on a Samsung NC10 netbook to test its performance and battery-life against Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10, Moblin 2.1, Fedora 12, and openSUSE 11.2. Interesting results ahead. Ultimately, Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10 did the best, and openSUSE ...
  4 days ago

• Innovative OER Projects Presentation

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 142
  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 ...
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• 5 Reasons to Dislike iTunes U

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 142
  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.
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• Recap of P2P U Workshop

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 142
  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 ...
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• Survey on the Use of Digital Repositories

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 142
  Gavin Baker at Open Access News is reporting on a survey on the use of digital repositories and open access. Unfortunately, the PDF is not open access, so Baker’s summary will have to suffice. From the post: About 28% said that they sympathize and try to help out by providing open access to their research ...
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• Defining the ‘open’ in open content

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 519
  David Wiley has posted a blog where he attempts to define what open content means: Wiley, D. (2009) Defining ‘open’ Iterating towards openness , November 16. Wiley defines four characteristics of open content – the 4Rs – and the discussion following the blog is also interesting. Thanks to Burkard Lehmann ...
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