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Using Wiley (2007) definition of sustainability as "an open educational resource project's ongoing ability to meet its goals." Wiley's three models that he characterized as follows: - The MIT model: "highly centralised and tightly coordinated in terms of organisation and the provision of services, relying almost exclusively on paid employees" - The USU model: "hybrid of centralisation and decentralisation of both organisation and services, and work is distributed across some employed staff and a number of volunteers" - The Rice model: "almost fully decentralised and volunteers provide almost all services"

g11n provides a complete linguistic solution, covering the full range of services related to localizing a product and content to market efficiently with the required quality. Our marketing specialists play a predominant role in performing global research for trending markets and have an extensive approach towards translation to full linguistic support.

Co-founded by open education visionary Dr. David Wiley and education technology strategist Kim Thanos; finding quality content and mapping it to course learning outcomes; incorporating OER into academic strategy and curriculum decisions via consulting services; faculty training services; analytics and other outcomes to maximize student success

he OER university is a virtual collaboration of like-minded institutions [Australia, New Zealand, Canada] committed to creating flexible pathways for OER learners to gain formal academic credit. The OER university aims to provide free learning to all students worldwide using OER learning materials with pathways to gain credible qualifications from recognised education institutions. It is rooted in the community service and outreach mission to develop a parallel learning universe to augment and add value to traditional delivery systems in post-secondary education. Through the community service mission of participating institutions we will open pathways for OER learners to earn formal academic credit and pay reduced fees for assessment and credit.

Providing services and resources on copyright - by Benedict O'Mahoney, a lawyer.

Drama in the Delta, Digitally Reenacting Civil Rights Performances at Arkansas' Wartime Camps for Japanese Americans 3D digital role-playing game reconstructing the 2 US concentration camps for Japanese Americans during World War II - players navigate two levels of racial segregation to experience rebellious performances from judo combat and blues music to kabuki plays and drag shows Project Directors: Dr. Emily Roxworthy (Theatre and Dance, University of California, San Diego) and Amit Chourasia (Head of Visualization Services Group, San Diego Supercomputer Center) Other universities involved: undergraduates from MIT and UC-SanDiego graduate students from UC-SanDiego historians from U Cincinnati, UVa, King's College (London), U Arkansas-LittleRock, UC-SanDiego

"MindTap - array of digital products and services LMS agnostic with "MindApps" to go across learning platforms - portability and customization by individual students as well as faculty

Harvard Law School students provide "pro-bono legal services to appropriate individuals, small start-ups, non-profit groups and government entities regarding cutting-edge issues of the Internet, new technology and intellectual property."

The CSU's Affordable Learning Solutions Campaign is designed to enable faculty to choose and provide quality educational content that is more affordable for their students. CSU students typically pay over $800 per year for their books. By reducing their expenses, we believe we can provide better access to a quality CSU learning experience. We are launching this campaign in 2010 and will be continuously improving the services to CSU faculty and students each semester. The Affordable Learning Solutions website is designed to: - Make it easy for faculty, staff, and students to find no/low cost course content that can substitute for more costly textbooks Enable faculty to be recognized for their efforts in reducing costs for students - Share practices for using no/low cost digital content in CSU courses - Support campuses in customizing their strategies to enable affordable learning solutions For example: As part of a three-year partnership with Nature Publishing Group (NPG), publisher of the world's leading scientific journal Nature, CSU faculty guided and advised the development of NPG's Principles of Biology - the first in a series of interactive "born digital" textbooks. The text will be incorporated into courses for students at the Los Angeles, Northridge and Chico campuses starting in the 2011/2012 academic year.

U.S. National Archives now making high-resolution images of Ansel Adams' public-domain National Park Service photos public via Wikimedia Commons

What Is Standardization and Localization?. Standardization and localization are two of the most important processes of global business. Even though there is no connection between the two processes, as one happens independently of the other, they both became a crucial part of business when trade reached a global scale. This is because companies now...

In this technological age a plagiarism checker is essential for protecting your written work. A plagiarism checker benefits teachers, students, website owners and anyone else interested in protecting their writing. Our service guarantees that anything you write can be thoroughly checked by our plagiarism software to insure that your texts are unique.

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