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Stanford Engineering Everywhere - 1 views

see.stanford.edu openeducation
shared by Bryan Alexander on 28 Mar 13 - Cached
  • Bryan Alexander on 28 Mar 13
     
    Stanford's open education for engineering initiative.
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Into the wild - Technology for open educational resources " CETIS Publications - 0 views

publications.cetis.ac.uk/601 openeducation OER
shared by Bryan Alexander on 22 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Bryan Alexander on 22 Mar 13
     
    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.
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Carlos Slim backs Khan Academy - 0 views

www.carlosslim.com/responsabilidad_kahan_ing.html OER
shared by Bryan Alexander on 21 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Bryan Alexander on 21 Jan 13
     
    Big outreach to Latin America.
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Coursera heads to freemium - 1 views

www.insidehighered.com/...rseras-fee-based-course-option MOOC openeducation
shared by Bryan Alexander on 09 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Bryan Alexander on 09 Jan 13
     
    "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"
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Shakespeare plays from Folger - 1 views

www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/?chapter=4 OER
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  • Bryan Alexander on 13 Dec 12
     
    Nice presentation of these.
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European Commission for OER - 1 views

europa.eu/...ress-release_IP-12-1233_en.htm OER policy
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  • Bryan Alexander on 30 Nov 12
     
    The European Commission called for increased use of open education to be "scaled-up in all learning contexts".
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Obstacles to OER - 0 views

www.hackeducation.com/...the-obstacles-to-oer OER
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  • Bryan Alexander on 29 Oct 12
     
    Good sketch.
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British Columbia Government Lends Support to Open Textbooks - Creative Commons - 0 views

creativecommons.org/...34566 OER openeducation
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  • Bryan Alexander on 23 Oct 12
     
    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.
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MOOC courses meta-list - 0 views

www.mooc.ca/courses.htm MOOC
shared by Bryan Alexander on 19 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Bryan Alexander on 19 Sep 12
     
    List of lists.
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On-demand Wikipedia ebook maker - 0 views

blog.wikimedia.org/...t-feature-enabled-on-wikipedia opentextbooks
shared by Bryan Alexander on 19 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Bryan Alexander on 19 Sep 12
     
    Lets you make an exportable ebook using whatever Wikipedia articles you want.
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Cards for free/OER content, Starbucks style - 0 views

www.davidleeking.com/...ds-and-libraries-would-it-work OER libraries
shared by Bryan Alexander on 13 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Bryan Alexander on 13 Sep 12
     
    Nice library idea.
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Research publications on Massive Open Online Courses and Personal Learning Environments - 1 views

ritakop.blogspot.ca/...lications-on-massive-open.html open_education research MOOC
shared by Bryan Alexander on 12 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Bryan Alexander on 12 Sep 12
     
    Good index of MOOC research.
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University of the People, NYT interview - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...03iht-educlede03.html OER open_source
shared by Bryan Alexander on 03 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Bryan Alexander on 03 Sep 12
     
    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.
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World of Free and Open Source Art - 0 views

p2pfoundation.net/ld_of_Free_and_Open_Source_Art opencontent
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  • Bryan Alexander on 03 Sep 12
     
    This is a collection of artworks, texts and resources about freedom and openness in the arts, in the age of the Internet.
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Open source textbook publisher projects $1M in savings - 0 views

www.ecampusnews.com/...blisher-projects-1m-in-savings openeducation OER
shared by Bryan Alexander on 15 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Bryan Alexander on 15 Aug 12
     
    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.
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Digital Scholarship | Open Educational Resources (OERs) for digital scholars - 1 views

www.digitalscholarship.ac.uk OER
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  • Bryan Alexander on 01 Aug 12
     
    Nice set of info lit materials.
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