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RSS Feed aggregator about Open Access » Open Access: Self-Selected, Mandated & Random; Answers & Questions
What follows below is what we hope will be found to be a conscientious and attentive series of responses to questions raised by Phil Davis about our paper (Gargouri et al, currently under refereeing) — responses for which we did further analyses of our data (not included in the draft under refereeing).Gargouri, Y., Hajjem, C., Lariviere, V., Gingras, Y., … [Leer entrada original]
Sharing Nicely » Mozilla Jetpack Design Challenge invites 10 teams to Design Camp
For the past two months participants in Mozilla’s Jetpack 4 Learning Design Challenge have worked on Jetpack prototypes to turn the open web into a rich social learning environment and explore new possibilities for learning online. Today 10 teams were selected to participate in a hands-on Design Camp. The Jetpack 4 Learning Design Challenge is sponsored by the Mozilla Foundation … [Leer entrada original]
Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources » Connexions Highly Rated as OER Repository
In his January 2010 paper titled “Using Free and Open Online Resources: Licensing and Collections“ Norm Friesen lists Connexions as one of the highest rated OER repositories. His paper provides an “overview of the open or free resources and materials available from online collections and providers that may be of significant strategic value to schools, universities and to [...] [Leer entrada original]
RSS Feed aggregator about Open Access » Biodiversity loss matters, and communication is crucial
Communicating why biodiversity loss matters for people is essential for reversing it. [Leer entrada original]
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Book Search, Museum View, and Exploitation
Read today a Google Books PR piece on the Guardian website. Of out-of-print or hard-to-get books, it says, “Although copies may be available in libraries, they are effectively dead to the wider world.” Also heard today that Google Street View is proposing inside views, museum interiors. Last week, I and some OKF people heard a Google Books lawyer, Antoine Aubert, … [Leer entrada original]
RSS Feed aggregator about Open Access » True or false? Defend your answer.
Prepping for your Graduate Record Exams? Here's a sample essay topic from a GRE study guide: All results of publicly funded scientific studies should be made available to the general public free of charge. Scientific journals that charge a subscription or newsstand price are profiting unfairly. See GRE Exam 2009 Edition Comprehensive Program, Kaplan Publishing, June 2008, p. 231. (Thanks … [Leer entrada original]
» Capturing Explanation
Mike Caulfield has a new post pointing to Khan Academy and suggests that educators should stop capturing course, and instead capture explanations. From the post: Forget the “lecture capture” vendors. Don’t worry about editing out false starts. Don’t spend any money on post-production. Thanks to Judy Baker for the link. [Leer entrada original]
» Does the iPad Need Open Educational Resources?
Anya Kamenetz has written an article on possible effects of mass adoption of the iPad. From the post: …costs won’t come down unless universities act boldly to replace the expensive texts and butts-in-seats classroom models with mobile, wireless, open-source education. [Leer entrada original]
» Free Culture Issues
Free Culture @ NYU has a new post outlining major issues in free culture. From the post: Technology has given us the tools to share and spread culture easily, cheaply, and massively. We should be embracing this opportunity in every way possible. [Leer entrada original]
» Recap of 2nd Connexions Conference
Tom Caswell has a new post at the OCWC Blog giving a recap of the recent Connexions Conference. From the post: I’m pleased to see Enterprise Rhaptos rolling out as an open source project. This could meet the needs of many organizations who want their own Connexions site. It will be interesting to see how Enterprise Rhaptos competes with eduCommons … [Leer entrada original]
» Open Seminar on the Future of Education
John Fontaine has a new post on a planned open seminar. From the post: Feel free to comment on the proposed syllabus and ask questions, post resources for the upcoming topic, or suggest people I should seek out at the conference or event I’m attending. Hopefully this seminar will be interesting and informative for those seeking to discuss these topics … [Leer entrada original]
Creative Commons » Commons News » Brooklyn Museum
Regarding openness and sharing, the Brooklyn Museum is an exemplary institution. They are major contributors to The Commons on Flickr, license their online image collection under a CC Attribution-NonCommerical license license, provide API access to this collection, and recently ran a CC-licensed remix contest with Blondie’s Chris Stein. Needless to say, we were eager to catch up with Shelley Bernstein, … [Leer entrada original]
Free Learning – Educational Resources » Python for Informatics – Open Textbook Remixed in 11 Days
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/e~ In a wonderful demonstration of ‘walking the talk,’ Dr. Charles Severance of the University of Michigan remixed an existing open textbook, Think Python: How to Think like a Computer Scientist, in only 11 days to produce a new textbook for his class, ones students could print out for $10 using a local print-on-demand kiosk on campus. [Leer entrada original]
Creative Commons » Commons News » “Python for Informatics” Open Textbook Remixed in 11 Days
Image: dr-chuck / CC BY Chuck Severance, clinical professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Information, recently published a new textbook in 11 days because he was able to remix an existing textbook. The book, Python for Informatics: Exploring Information, is currently being used in his winter semester Networked Computing course. The textbook is based on the openly licensed … [Leer entrada original]
Creative Commons » Commons News » Victorian Government Commits to CC as Default Licensing System
The UK government recently made a splash with its move towards opening government data. Now CC Australia’s Jessica Coates shares a promising government initiative in her home country. The Victorian Government has become the first Australian government to commit to using Creative Commons as the default licensing system for its public sector information (PSI). Many of its reports and other … [Leer entrada original]
RSS Feed aggregator about Open Access » More information about the Open Access workshop in Dakar and the programme
RSS Feed aggregator about Open Access » SENEGAL
Name: Ndiaye Mandiaye Organisation: Central library of Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar Email: mandiaye7[@]gmail.com eIFL.net consortium: Consortium des Bibliothèques de l'Enseignement Superieur du Senegal [Leer entrada original]