Stanford Engineering Everywhere - 1 views
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Bryan Alexander on 28 Mar 13Stanford's open education for engineering initiative.
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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Bryan Alexander
Into the wild - Technology for open educational resources " CETIS Publications - 0 views
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Reflections on three years of the UK OER Programmes. Between 2009 and 2012 the Higher Education Funding Council funded a series of programmes to encourage higher education institutions in the UK to release existing educational content as Open Educational Resources. The HEFCE funded UK OER Programme was run and managed by the JISC and the Higher Education Academy.
True Stories of Openness - 0 views
Carlos Slim backs Khan Academy - 0 views
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Big outreach to Latin America.
Coursera heads to freemium - 1 views
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"MOOCs are technically only "open" if they are free. So for Coursera, the pathway to credit or verifiable credentials will likely not be that of a pure MOOC"
Shakespeare plays from Folger - 1 views
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Nice presentation of these.
European Commission for OER - 1 views
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The European Commission called for increased use of open education to be "scaled-up in all learning contexts".
Obstacles to OER - 0 views
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Good sketch.
British Columbia Government Lends Support to Open Textbooks - Creative Commons - 0 views
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Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. Visual Notes of Honourable John Yap's announcement at #opened12 / Giulia Forsythe / CC BY-NC-SA The government of British Columbia, Canada's westernmost province, has announced its support for the creation of open textbooks for the 40 most popular first- and second-year courses in the province's public post-secondary system.
Indian schools increasingly use Khan Academy - 0 views
California to launch new OER textbooks - 0 views
MOOC courses meta-list - 0 views
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List of lists.
On-demand Wikipedia ebook maker - 0 views
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Lets you make an exportable ebook using whatever Wikipedia articles you want.
Cards for free/OER content, Starbucks style - 0 views
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Nice library idea.
Research publications on Massive Open Online Courses and Personal Learning Environments - 1 views
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Good index of MOOC research.
University of the People, NYT interview - 0 views
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Note the emphasis on open: "I mean open source technology, available for anyone to use for free; open educational resources; content that people produce and put on the Internet for everyone to use. And the new Internet culture of social networking, where people share, teach and learn from each other for free. " And accreditation.
World of Free and Open Source Art - 0 views
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This is a collection of artworks, texts and resources about freedom and openness in the arts, in the age of the Internet.
Open source textbook publisher projects $1M in savings - 0 views
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Open source textbook publisher projects $1M in savings OpenStax has been well received on college campuses as textbook prices remain stubbornly high College students in some of the most heavily attended courses in the country will eclipse $1 million in textbook savings after a Rice University-based publisher had 13,000 open-source books downloaded since June.
Digital Scholarship | Open Educational Resources (OERs) for digital scholars - 1 views
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Nice set of info lit materials.