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' ... licensing really does go to the heart of what open access means ...'

Open source and Open Access They are quite similar terms and with a common philosophy, give freedom to the user to use the share as he wills material. Interestingly both the open source and open access are four levels: Levels of open source 1 Level 0: Freedom to use the code 2 Level 1: Freedom of study code 3 Level 2: Freedom to study it and / or modify 4 Level 3: Freedom to redistribute (with or without changes) Levels of free access 1 Reuse all or part of the material for their own purposes 2 Sharing work with other 3 Power revise, adapt, change, and / or translate the shared work 4 Mix two or more existing sources and combine them to create something new As you can see they are very similar and can cause confusion, and believe they are the same. The authors are open access, public and / or private who wish to retain their copyright while the free code can be found that there is so much trouble (at least I think). ---------------- Código abierto y Acceso abierto Son términos bastante similares y con una filosofía común, dar libertad al usuario de usar el material compartido como a él le parezca. Curiosamente tanto el código abierto y el libre acceso tienen cuatro niveles: Niveles del código abierto 1. Nivel 0: Libertad de usar el código 2. Nivel 1: Libertad de estudiar el código 3. Nivel 2: Libertad de estudiarlo y/o modificarlo 4. Nivel 3: Libertad para redistribuirlo (con o sin cambios) Niveles del acceso abierto 1. Reusar una parte o toda del material para sus propios fines 2. Compartir el trabajo con otros 3. Poder revisar, adaptar, cambiar, y/o traducir el trabajo compartido 4. Mezclar dos o más fuentes existentes y combinarlos para crear algo nuevo Como se puede apreciar son muy similares y pueden causar confusión, y creer que son lo mismo. En el libre acceso existen autores, instituciones públicas y/o privadas que desean conservar sus derechos de aut

"We live in an age of information overload. While many of us find ourselves inundated with vast amounts of data daily, our fast-paced society also requires us to make more rapid decisions." A very short blog post that reminds us to slow down and focus. It doesn't add much new to the conversation but the reminders are helpful, especially the one about multitasking. It truly is a myth.

i enjoyed reading it

Interesting read! 4 ways to retain your brain to handle information overload

"4. Give it away now. Information and knowledge should be shared openly, freely."

rule 4 of hacking mindset: Give it away now. Information and knowledge should be shared openly, freely.

The story of Aaron Swartz, incredible programmer and activist for internet rights, open access and open knowledge. Good documentary to learn a little more about the open access movement, see some important figures (Tim Berners-Lee, Lawrence Lessig, etc.) and the fight against the SOPA bill. A big part of the movie is about his personal life and legal battle over copyright infringement. Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

This was a great video! I enjoyed it very much and it was very touching. thank you for posting. @smoens - awesome blog too. thank you for the link.

For the Copyright section I recommend to watch this documentary: The Internet's Own Boy depicts the life of American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz. It features interviews with his family and friends as well as the internet luminaries who worked with him.

Ellyssa Kroski identified four distinct types of makerspaces

A quick and informative read. I had no idea there were distinct maker spaces, and this will make it easier to identify which ones I come across in future :)

Thank you for sharing. Something I did not know before.

Las 4 libertades del sofdware libre

Provides a list of important skills and how those skills are embedded within the curriculum.

Thank you Kevin Stranack for sharing. Tony Bates ends with five questions: 1. Have I covered the main skills needed in a knowledge-based society? What have I missed? 2. Do you agree that these are important skills? If so, should universities explicitly try to develop them? 3. What are you or your university doing (if anything) to ensure such skills are taught, and taught well? 4. What roles if any do you think technology, and in particular online learning, can play in helping to develop such skills? 5. Any other comments on this topic - My answers: 1. Frustration tolerance and keeping a balance between work and private life is a necessary skill 2, The skill set mentioned is important, but more likely trained in college than in university 3. I do have a personal coach and a counseler, and I'm enrolled in #OKMOOC 4. The activities required in every module of #OKMOOC ask to reach out, connect, build relationships, Have you answered the feedback questions?

This question is really the elephant in the room in a lot of university programs, especially in the humanities. I myself was a doctoral student in the humanities before leaving because, as I eventually learned, there were essentially no employment opportunities and my skillset in today's economy was sorely lacking. But the old mantra that "we teach critical thinking" is become a worn excuse. Do we really need four years to teach people the skills to survive "out there"? How much of our specialized knowledge will really be useful outside of the academy? These are questions we just don't have the answer to, and I'm not sure there are many people willing to ask them. But more to the point, I didn't see anything in this link about the changing ways that millennials (I promise that I hate the term as much as anyone, but it's a useful one) are engaging with information, and how that is changing how they actually think. There have been arguments made that digital natives (again, a pretty terrible term) think about and process information in very different ways that have serious implications for contextualization and long-term research. I'm not saying that universities don't teach these things in their own ways, but it's an important issue that needs addressing. I know that the link talks about the important of knowledge management, but there's a huge difference between simply knowing how and when to access information and quite another to properly contextualize its place in a larger hierarchy (or web) of knowledge. I would argue *that* skill is the one that universities are best poised to provide, and maybe why we keep hearing talk about how undergraduate degrees are the new highschool diplomas.

This weeks module 4 in the Stanford Online course OpenKnowledge: Changing the Global Course of Learning is not only about copyleft and economics of open, but also about Open Education. Just this week President Obama highlights Open Education in a speech to U.N. and updates the U.S. The course requires to seek, sense and share resources, and bookmark them at Diigo. I have found a range of resources about Open Education and Open Educational Resources from the Netherlands. Those are listed below, including a couple of other links. At least there is written a lot about OE&OER in the Netherlands.

"Having explored a "learning theory" that George Siemens (2005; 2006a) and Stephen Downes (2005; 2007) developed for a networked and digital world called connectivism. Fascinating and extensive conversations in the blogosphere and in educational journals debate whether connectivism is a new learning theory or whether it is merely a digital extension of constructivism."

I agree, is a wonderful delineation.

The article is great. I only have one observation, we always assume learning is all about connecting special nodes and sources of information but we forget that the opposite is also learning. When we disconnect our wrong nodes and sources of information in terms of beliefs and wrong information, I believe we are also learning.

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In Module 4, one of the activities is to complete the open multimedia searching exercise. The assignment description contains a nice and well sorted list of internet resources. "Commons", the multimedia repository of Wikimedia contains exclusively material with an open license, CC-BY-SA or GFDL.

Fair Use as Market F...

You may use a pseudonym if you want to protect your own identity, so that noo ther information will be reveal and its up to you if you want to share even a small peace of your information, pictures of some events and etc.

Introducción al concepto de Identidad Digital. Basado en Castañeda, L. & Camacho, M. (2012) "Desvelando nuestra identidad digital". El profesional de la información, julioagosto, v. 21, n. 4 l, pp. 354-360. Disponible en abierto en http://eprints.rclis.org/17350/1/2012EPI.pdf

Tengo que reconocer, con rubor, que el tema de la identidad digital me empezó a preocupar este lunes cuando inició el módulo 2 de este curso, y que caigo por completo dentro de la categoría de quienes construimos nuestra identidad digital aun sin ser conscientes de ello. En eso coincido con los sujetos de la investigación. En lo que no tengo nada que ver es con el papel de lurker (aunque no soy un escribidor compulsivo, trato de usar las redes de manera constante, y a pesar del tiempo que demandan). Claro que por mi edad, y por varias otros aspectos, yo no experimento con mi identidad como lo hacen los jóvenes holandeses que menciona el artículo que compartiste. Aunque uno usa las redes para practicar distintos aspectos (los jóvenes holandeses del estudio lo hacen para explorar su identidad y practicar, con éxito, sus habilidades de sociales), yo tendré que pensar con cuidado para qué. Coincido en que he borrado cosas que puse (otra coincidencia con los sujetos estudiados). Y como ellos, debo reconocer otra vez contra mi voluntad, uno intenta poner cosas que lo hagan parecer inteligente (o no muy pazguato), y, si es posible, interesante. Mi inicio en el uso constante de las redes parece estar vinculado a un posgrado. La búsqueda e intercambio de información son la puerta de entrada de buena parte de la participación en redes sociales. Y al contrario de los entrevistados, hay gente en la red que ejerce mucha influencia sobre mí, y estoy muy agradecido de su aporte, inconsciente y desinteresado, a mis propio desarrollo. FInalmente, comparto la afirmación de las autoras: "Creemos firmemente que conocer la forma en que la identidad se crea y configura nos llevará a una mejor comprensión de la naturaleza de nuestros experiencias sociales y culturales y puede ayudarnos a mejorar de forma consciente nuestros procesos de aprendizaje y relación con el entorno." Muchas gracias por compartir el texto.

Prof Sugata Mitra explains why children need more freedom to teach one another.