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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “open_content”

• Proprietary software is a black hole of knowledge universe: Why all knowledge should be free

  
  P2P Foundation — Authority: 582
  Excerpt from a longer text (introducing free software to an Indian audience) by Nagarjuna . Why all knowledge should be free? Let us take a blank CD and take its mass on a balance. Now, having recorded its mass, let us copy about 700MB of software or any digital documents into it. Record its mass after it is ...
  5 hours ago

• Let students use the magnitudes greater knowledge

  
  Golden Swamp — Authority: 112
  School standards and grades only require students to learn a small amount about a few subjects. Kids get diplomas for getting 75% (grade C) of the limited subject matter that state standards describe for each of the very few subjects studied in schools. So how can a youngster get a chance to learn about an image like ...
  18 hours ago

• Super OER

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  The Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) has a new post summarizing the definition of “super OER.”
  20 hours ago

• Lessig Encourages Academia to Fight For Sharing

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  The Chronicle of Higher Education: Wired Campus has a new article on a recent presentation by Larry Lessig on copyright. Lessig, who founded Creative Commons, argued that academia needs to fight for the ability to share and remix. From the article: It is time to fight back, he told his audience, adding: “You ...
  2 days ago

• P2PU Minus Copyright

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• IRRODL special edition on openness and the future of higher education

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 554
  The International Review of Open and Distance Learning has just brought out a special issue, Vol. 10, No. 5, 2009 , edited by David Wiley and James Hilton III, on openness and the future of education. Table of Contents Editorial: Openness and the Future of Higher Education David Wiley, John Hilton III ...
  3 days ago

• Preparing OER for Search Engines

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• Free Resources are Not Always Open Resources

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  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. ...
  4 days ago

• Open Source: a Few Years Later

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  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.
  4 days ago

• College IT Help crowdsourcing, will OER be next?

  
  Golden Swamp — Authority: 112
  Sharing open educational resources (OER) holds enormous potential for saving educational costs. After all, much of what professors teach and students learn is largely similar everywhere. Why not source online knowledge from crowds of open resources instead of having each campus create its own firewalled virtual web ...
  5 days ago

• Textbook Graveyard at University of Washington

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Open Access Conference in Ghana

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  The Ghana News Agency is reporting on an open access conference in Ghana. The conference focused on using emerging infrastructure to share knowledge. From the article: “We must see research education networks as a vital component in Africa’s ICT engine of growth.”
  5 days ago

• OER: Promise and Pitfalls

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Open Education Call to Action

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Florida Textbook Initiative Receives $300,000

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  Scott Travis at the Sun Sentinel is reporting that a Florida initiative for open textbooks has received $300,000 from the federal government. From the article: The grant will be used for research, computer programming, training and other tasks needed to expand open access textbooks.
  6 days ago

• A New Kind of Media Comparison Study

  
  iterating toward openness — Authority: 389
  I’ve written about this before , but here we go again… In educational research there is a long and storied history of people conducting studies along the lines of “is video-based instruction more effective than audio-based instruction?” or “is text-based instruction more effective than audio-based ...
  6 days ago

• Barriers to effective use of open educational resources in developing countries

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 554
  Hatakka, M. (2009) Build it and they will come? Inhibiting factors for re-use of open content in developing countries The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries , Vol. 37. No. 5, pp. 1-16 From the abstract: Despite the benefits of open content the usage is very low in developing ...
  1 week ago

• Open educational resources in developing countries

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 554
  Commonwealth of Learning (2009) OERs: the promise and the pitfalls, Connections , October Although fairly brief, the article contains some useful links on OERs
  1 week ago

• Reflections on Barcelona

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  Alan Levine has a new post giving his reflections on the Open EdTech 2009 Summit . The post provides interesting insights into conference backchannels. From the post: Now at probably any week of the year, there is some group, meeting, conference, online discussion, class of people sitting around trying to suss out ...
  1 week ago

• Open Knowledge Foundation Looking For Editor

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  Jonathan Gray has a new post at the Open Knowledge Foundation blog about an editor position. The editor would spend a few hours attending virtual meetings and providing feedback on textbooks. From the post: The Open Text Book project aims to be, in the first instance, a simple registry to make it easy to locate ...
  1 week ago

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