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Comment by Tim Vollmer, Manager of Policy and Data for Creative Commons: "...a handy, human-readable reference guide for academic authors, publishers looking into supporting Open Access, and policy makers and funders adopting open policies that require Open Access to research that is funded through the public purse... focuses primarily on describing the spectrum of Open Access policies for journals. An increasingly important and related area is the sharing of data associated with the research process. Open data have the potential to facilitate enhanced scientific collaboration and reproducibility, but it is not yet settled, from both a legal and technical perspective, how this wealth of data that leads to the creation of scholarly work will be shared. And current research suggests an approach whereby articles are licensed under an open license (preferably CC-BY), while data associated with the article are dedicated to the public domain using a tool such as the CC0 Public Domain Dedication. In this way, researchers clearly communicate-in a comprehensive manner-the rights and permissions available to users for both the text and the data." Read more at http://blogs.plos.org/blog/2012/10/01/tim-vollmer-of-creative-commons-on-howopenisit/

Professor Jim Taylor, from the University of Southern Queensland, points out that the OER university will create a parallel learning universe to augment and add value to traditional models of delivery through open collaboration networks. "This is not theoretical speculation, it is entirely viable." said Jim Taylor. In this keynote address, Jim: Refers to the "gales of creative destruction" associated with technological change where old industry can be swept away and replaced by new ones. However, the OER university concept provides opportunities for "creative construction" for universities in a digital age. Demonstrates that conventional supply of education using traditional delivery methods will not the meet the demands for access to higher education. Consider, for example: the need for 18 million new teachers the doubling of post-secondary students in the next decade the need to build roughly one new university per week in India alone to meet the future demand for learning. Points out that we already have a critical mass of open access materials, but we don't have open curriculum, open student support, open assessment and open accreditation. Indicates that the OER university concept will provide a stairway to credible credentials based soley on OER.

An open educational resource modeling how to write an open educational resource... by having you read it and learn from it at your own pace you can write your own OER unit.

Intro with learning outcomes; Definition of open learning and OERs; Planning an OER unit; Creating an OER; Pedagogy inc social constructivism; Communicating; Evaluating open learning

This calculator is based on research conducted in the Department of Instructional Psychology and Technology and the Center for the Improvement of Teacher Education and Schooling at Brigham Young University in conjunction with schools in the BYU Public School Partnership using open textbooks originally provided by CK12.org. This research was funded in part by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Cost information in the Calculator is based on pricing from Lulu, who we found to be the best option for printing open textbooks. For additional information about the Utah Open Textbooks Project, visit http://utahopentextbooks.org/.

Free, open course on "Personal Learning Environments for Inquiry in K12" - topics include orientation to open learning environments, processes and obstacles, and how to evaluate learning in PLEs and networks

9 week free, open and online course designed for higher ed community but may also be of interest to secondary educators or home schoolers. Expecting people to dedicate 3-10 hrs a week starting January 10 and running through March 13, 2013.

Internet redefining citizenship in 21st century - Civic Information API, e.g., Kenya Elections Hub - Sunlight Foundation programs for open govt data - MySociety collaboration among developers esp open source code

Open field notes for a book to be written for Johns Hopkins Univ Press on trends in education, inc. MOOCs. One post is entitled: "the real disruption isn't online courses, it's their business model" George Siemens, Bonnie Stewart, and Dave Cormier have been contracted to write for Johns Hopkins University Press, and they expect the book to be published in mid-2013. They started the first Massive Open Online Course (MOOCs), together with Stephen Downes, in 2008.

Tony Hirst describing his thoughts on building a course for the British Open University and relying on Wordpress (due to its ability to handle RSS feeds so robustly) blogs to build a cacophony of blog entries by his students to craft pathways for the creation of new knowledge.

How-to for faculty to develop their own open courseware strategy, including benefits (global, institutional, personal/professional).

Emphasizing lecture capture tool as a cheaper way to gather presentational materials for students to access anytime/anywhere; touches on issue of intellectual property but no analysis; mentions in passing that most of the open material comes from one or two profs from University of South Florida; reminds us that foundational grants are crucial to large initiatives' success

Openness as a literacy

Contradicts the Fitch Report (http://www.researchinfonet.org/publish/finch/) and AHA response (http://blog.historians.org/publications/1734/aha-statement-on-scholarly-journal-publishing) re inequities for the pay-for-publishing strategies now trending: "According to the 2011 Study of Open Access Publishing (SOAP), the APC is usually paid by the author's funding agency (59%) or employer (24%), not by authors out of pocket (12%)"

Creative Commons (CC) has received a small grant to create an "OER Policy Registry." The Open Education Resources (OER) Policy Registry will be a place for policy makers and open advocates to easily share and update OER legislation, OER institutional policies and supporting OER policy resources. We have begun to enter OER policies into the registry, but we need your help to make it a truly useful global resource. ... Will you please: (1) Contribute any OER policies you know about on this form. http://goo.gl/9TmUV We are collecting both legislative AND institutional (non- legislative) OER policies from around the world. Your form submissions will be added to this draft list of OER policies. (2) Review the draft list of OER policies. http://goo.gl/i6i9W If any entries need to be fixed, please email us at oer@creativecommons.org

OEP guide (how to use their maturity model to implement Open Educational Practices in your own institution); submit case to OEP Clearinghouse for best practices; OPAL Awards recognizing OER achievements.

Open courses for direct use by independent learners or for re-mix/use by instructors - HP-sponsored Measuring Learning Consortium will use it also to research on students' understanding of STEM coursework (France, Hong Kong, Russia, South Africa and USA)

This study will investigate the impact of Open Educational Resources (OER) use on teaching and learning. To achieve this, the project team will review current research in the area; survey, interview and run workshops with suitable participants to collect data; and will produce an accessible report on the study findings. The report will consider the use of OER from both an individual and institutional perspective looking at the benefits OER can offer each and identifying the pedagogic, attitudinal, logistical and strategic factors conducive to uptake and sustained use of OER, as well as the associated issues and challenges.

Tom Caswell's presentation on Washington State Technical and Commity Colleges' Open Education initiative from the #elifocus11 session, Day 1.

Creative Commons produces an e-book with stories of open content and cc-licenses.

a table of contents: 1. Three major OA announcements from the UK on the same day 2. Some recent history as context for these announcements 3. Basics of the new RCUK policy 4. Basics of the Finch recommendations 5. General agreement between the RCUK policy and Finch recommendations 6. Appreciation of the large-scale shift to OA in the UK 7. Some consequences for journals and authors 8. Responding to publisher fears of green OA 9. Objections and recommendations 10. Announcements from Europe the day after the UK announcements