October 16, 2009 – 6:47 am
nbsp;http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/…
“15 October 2009 — Today the UNESCO OER Toolkit (with support from the UNESCO Communications and Information Sector) was released as a resource for academics and institutions — with a special focus on developing countries — who are interested in participating in open education projects.
OVERVIEW — Most of the Toolkit is designed for academics who [...]
October 16, 2009 – 6:39 am
nbsp;http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/…
The Center for Social Media at AU has released a Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for OpenCourseWare. From the press release,
“OpenCourseWare, the Web-based publication of academic course content launched in 2002 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been lauded for making college-level courses available to anyone anywhere in the world for [...]
October 15, 2009 – 10:05 am
nbsp;http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/2009/10/13/su…
Ithaka S+R has completed a multi-year investigation of innovative funding models to sustain digital projects, culminating in a summary paper and twelve detailed case studies. Now, Ithaka has produced three briefing papers for use across the public sector, highlighting suggestions drawn from this project, and suggesting how the examples provided by some of the case [...]
October 13, 2009 – 7:03 am
nbsp;http://chronicle.com/article/Free-Online…
Online students want credit; colleges want a working business model……..
October 9, 2009 – 6:44 am
nbsp;http://chronicle.com/blogPost/PBSNPR-Add…
PBS and NPR are now posting taped interviews and videos of lectures by academics, adding to the growing number of free lectures online.
Their site, called Forum Network, says it makes thousands of lectures available, including the Harvard professor Michael Sandel’s take on calculating happiness in a lecture called “How to Measure Pleasure,” and a [...]
October 2, 2009 – 11:11 am
nbsp;http://oerconsortium.org/2009/10/01/essa…
October 1, 2009
Today, an essay was posted to the Publius Project on “A Brief Overview of Public Policy on OER from California’s Community Colleges to the Obama Administration” authored by Carolina Rossini and Erhardt Graeff of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
This excerpt from the essay challenges the recent open [...]
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Open Educational Resources: Conversations in Cyberspace brings together the background papers and reports from the first three years of activities in the UNESCO OER Community.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2009/06/oer.aspx
Today June 24, 2009 the Higher Education Academy and JISC officially launch its Open Educational Resources programme, helping to drive open innovation across the UK.
This week’s announcement by David Lammy (Minister for Higher Education and IPR) to create an online innovation fund and the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP’s celebration of [...]
nbsp;http://ocw.tufts.edu/
Tufts OpenCourseWare is part of a new educational movement initiated by MIT that provides free access to course content for everyone online. Tufts’ course offerings demonstrate the University’s strength in the life sciences in addition to its multidisciplinary approach, international perspective and underlying ethic of service to its local, national and international communities.
nbsp;http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/EC-SIG-OER_27020…
Dear Colleagues,
As you may be aware that JISC CETIS Educational Content SIG meeting, a joint CETIS/OpenLearn OER event was held at the Open University on 27 February 2009. The meeting included presentations from a range of existing OER projects in order to share their experiences and lessons learned. It also provided an opportunity for potential [...]
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