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Miller S.

Open Content Alliance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • The Open Content Alliance (OCA) is a consortium of organizations contributing to a permanent, publicly accessible archive of digitized texts. Its creation was announced in October 2005 by Yahoo!, the Internet Archive, the University of California, the University of Toronto and others [1]. Scanning for the Open Content Alliance is administered by the Internet Archive, which also provides permanent storage and access through its website.
  • OCA's approach to seeking permission from copyright holders differs significantly from that of Google Book Search. OCA digitizes copyrighted works only after asking and receiving permission from the copyright holder ("opt-in"). By contrast, Google Book Search digitizes copyrighted works unless explicitly told not to do so ("opt-out"), and contends that digitizing for the purposes of indexing is fair use.
  • The OCA is, in part, a response to Google Book Search, which was announced in October 2004.
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  • Microsoft had a special relationship with the Open Content Alliance until May 2008. Microsoft joined the Open Content Alliance in October 2005 as part of its Live Book Search project [2]. However, in May 2008 Microsoft announced it would be ending the Live Book Search project and no longer funding the scanning of books through the Internet Archive.[3] Microsoft removed any contractual restrictions on the content they had scanned and they relinquished the scanning equipment to their digitization partners and libraries to continue digitization programs.[3] Between about 2006 and 2008 Microsoft sponsored the scanning of over 750,000 books, 300,000 of which are now part of the Internet Archive's on-line collections.
  • Miller S. on 30 Mar 10
     
    This wikipedia page talks about the OCA(Open Content Alliance). This website tells how this alliance is contributing to the growth of Open Content and how it is helping the idea of Open Content to become more widely used throughout the world.
Austin M

Special Report - International Education - As Colleges Make Courses Available Free Onli... - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...31iht-riedopen.html

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  • Utah State OpenCourseWare, http://ocw.usu.edu
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      Miller S. on 30 Mar 10
       
      This webiste is dedicated to helping students find open course materials.
  • Anyone, anywhere, with an Internet connection — from Bill Gates down — can log on and download these materials without cost.
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      Miller S. on 30 Mar 10
       
      Being able to download materials with no costs is the most appealing factor for students. In theory, a student can obtain a degree from a prestigious college by getting their materials online. This also gets rid of the cost of purchasing books.
  • A computer in Logan, Utah, holds syllabus details, lecture notes, problem sets and exams from more than 80 Utah State University courses
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      Miller S. on 30 Mar 10
       
      This sentence briefly explains how open content is being used in schools and universities.
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  • iTunes U, youtube.com/edu and their own sites, like Open Yale Courses.
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      Miller S. on 30 Mar 10
       
      These are sites that help universities spread their open content ideas.
  • The OpenCourseWare Consortium, which grew out of the M.I.T. project, now includes over 200 institutions worldwide and offers materials from more than 13,000 courses. OpenCourseWare makes it possible to profit from some of the content that comes with $50,000 annual tuition at an Ivy League school, without paying that hefty price tag.
  • The idea driving the movement is that information should be freely shared.
  • someone must pay for these materials, and with the recession squeezing university budgets, open course programs are vulnerable.
  • For an annual cost of $125,000, or a mere 0.05 percent of the university’s $226 million budget, Utah State’s four-year-old OpenCourseWare program attracted 550,000 page views last year, making it one of the most popular in the United States, according to Marion Jensen, its former director.
  • The OpenCourseWare content is now being hosted on the DigitalCommons@USU Web site
  • how can professors and universities afford to give away the course materials that are their very livelihood?
  • The answer, says James D. Yager, senior associate dean for academic affairs at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, lies in why students pay to attend university in the first place. What OpenCourseWare offers, he notes, is not the full university experience: “We don’t offer the course for free, we offer the content for free,” Mr. Yager said by telephone in February. “Students take courses because they want interaction with faculty, they want interaction with one another. Those things are not available on O.C.W.
  • “O.C.W. is just the publishing of the content
  • Riley Westwood9 on 30 Mar 10
     
    This bookmark explains about how opencourseware are helping people who cant make it to a ivy league college an makes it available free to them.
  • Austin M on 30 Mar 10
     
    New free software for college kids to take there classes online.
  • Miller S. on 30 Mar 10
     
    This wesite is very informative about the use of open content sources. It details the program of OpenCourseWare put in place by the Utah State University. It also describes the struggles of paying for open content, and it gives answers from individuals on how open content should be used.
Vicki Davis

Open Education Trends (Horizon Report 2010) - 1 views

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  • Vicki Davis on 08 Mar 10
     
    Open content and sharing is a shift in the way traditional academics have run. This is a cost-effective alternative to textbooks and customizable educational content is becoming increasingly available for free over the Internet. (Just be wary that you do not confuse "free" with "open source" - it is not the same.) Current links from the Horizon Report 2010 on this trend.
Selena P

open-source vs. proprietary web content management systems | DPCI - 0 views

www.databasepublish.com/...ary-content-management-systems

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  • Selena P on 24 Mar 10
     
    i think this video might help, because it addresses the differences between open content, and content that is controlled.\n
Nicole O

Open Content Business Models; How to Add Value to Something Free? on Vimeo - 0 views

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  • Nicole O on 22 Mar 10
     
    explans what open content is, and also explans how it is used in entertainment
Miller S.

Open Content Online - 0 views

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  • Miller S. on 30 Mar 10
     
    This page helps people add open content to the Internet. This website offers videos about conferences, support center information, as well as broadcasting information.
Jordan Bond

Open Content 3 - 0 views

www.wired.com/...ing-the-internet-without-flash

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  • Jordan Bond on 30 Mar 10
     
    It helps with open content because students can watch their teachers podcast on their iPad.
Alex H

10 Reasons to Use Open Content in Teaching - 0 views

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  • Alex H on 05 Apr 10
     
    This is an online slideshow that gives 10 reasons why Open Content is great for teaching and learning. The slideshow is 6 minutes, 42 seconds long and displays pictures that loosely relate to the points.
Katelin Rempel

Open content - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

en.wikipedia.org/...Open_content

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  • Katelin Rempel on 05 Apr 10
     
    the definition of open content, the history and a few search engines.
Katelin Rempel

Creative Commons - 0 views

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  • Katelin Rempel on 05 Apr 10
     
    Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. A form of open content.
daniel manny

The Next Wave of AR: Exploring Social Augmented Experiences at Where 2.0 | Ug... - 0 views

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  • 1) “Augmenting the map as interface: AR and Locative Narratives” - Jeremy Hight *Map augmentation of the historic route 66 can house an essay contest and publication globally but as embedded within that map augmentation instead of books or even web sites. * A place on a map can be a graphic index and database to save and collect the writing of that place with a graphic or textual search index. *One can pop immersive visualizations of abandoned or lost buildings from map location in shared software and collectively augment (imagine channels within the lost core of detroit where one is memories and accounts tagged within parts in the immersive visualization while another is of poems and stories written by people moved by the place and its semiotics and story). *The news stand is to be the map. *New forms of literature will be born of mapping, spaces,augmentation and new tools
  • “With the exotic mixed realities envisioned by futurists and science fiction writers seemingly around the corner, it is time to move beyond questions of technical feasibility to consider the value and impact of turning reality inside out for everyday social settings and experiences. Thanks to the inherently social nature of augmented reality, we can be sure the value and impact of many augmented experiences depends in large part on how effectively they integrate with the social dimensions of real-world settings, in real time.”
  • I will have the awesome privilege, on our Where 2.0 panel, of showcasing ARWave.   We will  premier the ARWave demo which shows how ARWave has accomplished the basics of geolocating data on Wave Federation Protocol (and real time collaboration on this geolocated data).  If you’re interested in the ARWave project join the Mailing list, FAQ are here, and have a peek at the current state of development at Google Code, and the specification for an AR Blip.  We also have Waves for the project hosted on Google Wave.  You can join the general discussion here, and the technical side here. The picture below is a screen shot from the demo video produced by core AR Wave developer and concept designer, Thomas Wrobel. Click on the image to enlarge, and note: “The pink thing is from Dennou Coil. Its an anti-virus program (that literally chase’s down bugs and glitches and removes them).” ARWave
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  • “The possibility exists to take a part of an area and overlay a dystopia, a utopia, multiples of each of these, or even recreations of previous incarnations in the past. Writing and publication thus cannot only be of place, and form(s), but of selected augmentations of icons, streets, buildings and related texts on top of the map. These spaces can be built in real time and can be turned on and off as channels of augmentation that over time illustrate many faces of place in its present, past, possible futures,etc. with texts within these alternate spaces as commentary, as fused aesthetic analysis, or simply creative writing relevant to these charged and hybrid spaces.”
  • “Layar has a killer browser already,  ARWave would add social features. They can keep their “walled garden” of data and still join the federation of open data too ” (Thomas Wrobel) Yup, that is the cool part of federation – you can have your cake and eat it too! Sophia Parafina and I will be organizing a discussion session on ARWave and Federation at WhereCamp, right after Where 2.0, April 3rd and 4th, and Dan Peterson who is in leading the federation effort for Google Wave will join us. The diagrams below illustrate how ARWave and federation can revolutionize the way we share our augmented realities.
  • daniel manny on 30 Mar 10
     
    The Reviews and Critics
Riley Westwood9

O'Reilly Open Books Project - 0 views

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  • Riley Westwood9 on 30 Mar 10
     
    A article talking about several books being published for open content.
Riley Westwood9

How Much to Charge for Cloud Based Open Source? | NetworkWorld.com Community - 0 views

www.networkworld.com/...59384

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  • Riley Westwood9 on 30 Mar 10
     
    This is a article debating on how much to charge for cloud based open content.
Braeden Broschuk

Open Conent - 1 views

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  • Braeden Broschuk on 05 Apr 10
     
    This is a website that can help you manahe your content and also helps build powerful online applications. This is a open source solution that is freely available to everyone.
Alex H

Open Content's Higher Ed Calling - 0 views

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  • Alex H on 05 Apr 10
     
    Open content could become more mainstream in higher education this year. The movement holds great potential for the higher education space where the New Media Consortium (NMC)--which publishes The Horizon Report annually in collaboration with Educause Learning Initiative--identifies it as a trend whose adoption rate will be one year or less.
Nicole O

Open Content | Index Data - 0 views

www.indexdata.com/opencontent

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  • Nicole O on 11 Mar 10
     
    The searchable indexes below expose public domain ebooks, open access digital repositories, Wikipedia articles, and miscellaneous human-cataloged Internet resources. Through standard search protocols, You can make these resources part of your own information portals, federated search systems, catalogs etc. Connection instructions for SRU and Z39.50 are provided. By way of an example, you can also try Index Data's MasterKey search tool to access these resources. If you have comments, questions, or suggestions for resources you would like us to add, please contact us, or consider joining the mailing list.. This service is powered by Index Data's Zebra and Metaproxy
Austin M

Access key IP to Unveil Open Internet Broadcasting Technology and Set Top Box at Nation... - 0 views

www.marketwatch.com/...ion-of-broadcasters-2010-03-30

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  • Austin M on 30 Mar 10
     
    This is a new program that lets you watch live tv on the internet.
Stephanie K

Social Media Today | What is the Future of Open Content - 1 views

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opencontent music video

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  • Stephanie K on 22 Mar 10
     
    Baraniuk is working on building global relationships with authors, educators and leaners so they can "create, rip, mix and burn" learning materials to a global open-access repository. He is creating a knowledge ecosystem that will empower anyone to take content and make of it what they want; to be translated into any language or to imbed any data which is updated in real time.
Vicki Davis

westwood - Open Sim Tutorials and Instructions - 0 views

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  • Vicki Davis on 30 Mar 10
     
    My ninth graders have completed a module documenting how to do various tasks in OpenSim, the virtual world we use that is hosted by Reactiongrid. This wiki has the links, instructions, and other pages with tutorials on how to do various items. I was assessing this today and thought I'd pass it along as there is some great information to show you how to do things. (If you are a beginning second lifer you may also learn some things.)
  • Vicki Davis on 30 Mar 10
     
    This is an example of how students can create content for the purposes of education.
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