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Why academia's war with the web is bad for critical pedagogy | The Paulo and Nita Freir... - 1 views

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    this aversion to the social web is coming at a great cost to those of us who are involved in a mission of social justice and critical pedagogy.
Nate Otto

digital digs: All education is DIY - 1 views

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    Alex Reid worries that many people wouldn't be able to handle a DIY education absent institutional structure without first going through that institutionally structured education first.
anonymous

Open minds, open tools, open education | melanie mcbride online - 0 views

  • As you can see, this is a truly inspired project that combines big picture vision (open education as a movement) with practical outcomes (using Mozilla/CC to create applied tools and resources) supported and realised by a great group of open minded educators. But great ideas are nothing if they aren’t transformed into action (Paolo Freire’s idea of “praxis”). I have proposed the following project as my own goal and outcome:
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    As you can see, this is a truly inspired project that combines big picture vision (open education as a movement) with practical outcomes (using Mozilla/CC to create applied tools and resources) supported and realised by a great group of open minded educators. But great ideas are nothing if they aren't transformed into action (Paolo Freire's idea of "praxis")
anonymous

Institutional Repositories Should Be Built on Open Source Software - 0 views

  • Institutional Repositories Should Be Built on Open Source Software
  • Open source [1] developers and users are unusually passionate about their work, unusual in ways that make things work well. So let me begin passionately as we talk about open source as the solution for support of institutional repositories.
  • Now that we have that behind us, let's discuss some of the myths and some of the reasons for dedicating your institutional repository to the use of open source software, open standards and open formats which, I contend, are inseparable.
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  • Institutional repositories have taken a few knocks in the six years since Cliff Lynch's “Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age” appeared in ARL 226 [4]. But I'm concerned more here about the upcoming crashes than the bumps we hit on the road to more settled standardizations. 
  • Proprietary software vendors often try to finesse the open source access promise by offering small customizable ports of entry into their code, usually as application program interfaces or APIs.
  • For a long time, it has been argued that the market, as represented by proprietary software solutions, is more responsive to the needs of users, to new requirements and to innovations. Open source is now seen as a diverse infrastructure of solutions each in competition while also free to borrow from each other.
  • The ends and the means of institutional repositories are one and the same. The infrastructure that supports open access needs to be open itself.
  • A quick glance at the most recent statistics produced by the OpenDOAR Directory of Open Access Repositories suggests that the vast majority of existing institutional repositories are currently built upon open source software.
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    Proprietary software vendors often try to finesse the open source access promise by offering small customizable ports of entry into their code, usually as application program interfaces or APIs. Like software escrow promises, this is a short-term solution to our long-term problems in curation of our valuable materials within our repositories.
Eleonora Panto

elearningpapers - 0 views

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    This article focuses on the OER (Open Educational Resources) repository LeMill, which is a web community for finding, authoring and sharing learning resources, provided as a free and open service to everyone at http://lemill.net.
Eleonora Panto

young people and emerging digital services - 0 views

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    an exploratory survey on motivations, perceptions and acceptance of risks
Guillermo Movia

BuddyPress.org - A WordPress MU Based Social Network Platform → BuddyPress in... - 0 views

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    A project that use Buddypress on K12 school in Michigan
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    Buddypress in K12 school
Charity Gamboa

Access to Knowledge - 0 views

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    My colleagues and I believe on the notion that access to knowledge and education is a right, hence, should be dealt in a rights-based approach
Charity Gamboa

OER as an alternative for crisis and budget cuts in developing countries « Op... - 0 views

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    Hopefully the Philippines can be more open to this idea.
Elena Lopez

Connexions - Browse Online Texts by Subject - 0 views

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    "Connexions is an environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web. Our Content Commons contains educational materials for everyone - from children to college students to professionals - organized in small modules that are easily connected into larger collections or courses. All content is free to use and reuse under the Creative Commons "attribution" license. "
Philipp Schmidt

My Presentations on SlideShare - 0 views

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    Thanks Philipp!
anonymous

Education/EduCourse/Participants - MozillaWiki - 0 views

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    This is the list of course participants. We selected just over 20 people from the list of sign-ups.
Elena Lopez

Study: class podcasts can lead to better grades - Ars Technica - 0 views

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    Students perform better on tests when they use podcasts to take notes-better, even, than simply going to class. Though a recent study stops short of saying podcasts can replace classes, it shows that they can be extremely useful in supplementing lectures.
Elena Lopez

Online Education - Introducing the Microlecture Format - Open Education - 0 views

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    "While one minute lectures may be beyond the scope of imagination for any veteran teacher, Shieh reports on the piloting of the concept at San Juan College in Farmington, N.M. The concept was introduced as part of a new online degree program in occupational safety last fall. According to Shieh, school administrators were so pleased with the results that they are expanding the micro-lecture concept to courses in reading and veterinary studies."
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