Prepared by Neil Butcher for the Commonwealth of Learning & UNESCO
Edited by Asha Kanwar (COL) andStamenka Uvalic ́-Trumbic ́ (UNESCO)

Link: http://goo.gl/aQCzG
File: pdf 149 pages 3.9 Mb

This Guide comprises three sections. The first - a summary of the key issues - is presented in the form of a set of 'Frequently Asked Questions'. Its purpose is to provide readers with a quick and user-friendly introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) and some of the key issues to think about when exploring how to use OER most effectively.The second section is a more comprehensive analysis of these issues, presented in the form of a traditional research paper. For those who have a deeper interest in OER, this section will assist with making the case for OER more substantively.
The third section is a set of appendices, containing more detailed information about specific areas of relevance to OER. These are aimed at people who are looking for substantive information regarding a specific area of interest.

The spectacular rise late last year in the price of bitcoin, the dominant virtual currency, has attracted much public attention as well as scholarly interest. This policy brief discusses how some features of bitcoin, as designed and executed to date, have hampered its ability to perform the functions required of a fiat money--as a medium of exchange, unit of account, and store of value. Furthermore, we document how various forms of intermediaries have emerged and evolved within the Bitcoin network, particularly noting the convergence toward concentrated processing, both on and off the blockchain. We argue that much of this process would have been predicted by established theories of financial intermediation, and we consider the theories' implication for the future evolution of intermediaries serving users of bitcoin or alternative virtual currencies. We then compare Bitcoin with other innovations to facilitate payment services, from competing alternative digital currencies to electronic payment protocols. We conclude with a broad consideration of the major factors that will likely shape the future development of Bitcoin versus other alternative payment systems. We predict that Bitcoin's lasting legacy will be the innovations it has spurred to payment technology, although the payment system will remain dominated by large processors because of economies of scale.

Full tex: http://www.bostonfed.org/economic/current-policy-perspectives/2014/cpp1404.pdf

Ordinary web users are literally shocked when understand the existence of the Deep Web, a network of interconnected systems, not indexed, having a size hundreds of times higher than the current web, around 500 times. For instance, Invisible Web contains nearly 550 billion individual documents compared to the one billion of the surface Web.
All services, web pages, platforms or social network we commonly use (such: Facebook, Google, Amazon etc.. etc, are free for the simple reason that they are used to compile user profiles and collect information to sell to private companies and agencies for a large variety of purposes. The funniest part is that no hacker or cyber criminal steals any confidential information in this case, but we provide them spontaneously all information they need.

Library Philosophy and Practice 2010
http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~mbolin/iffat-sami.htm

Sin duda recomendaría el proyecto #Peeragogy
http://peeragogy.org/

Hi all,
today Antonia Patricia Gomez de Nieto, member of OKMMOC Google+ Team find this great resource of information about present EU delegation to the Internet Governance Forum 2-5 September 2014 in Istanbul.

☣EUPress releases database http://goo.gl/2MQlYf
☣Internet governance forum http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/

On IGF forum you can find 4 Free Ebook + live workshops #Webcast links and live transcription of the event.

►Building Bridges-Enhancing Multi-stakeholder Cooperation for Growth and Sustainable Development'
►Cooperation for Growth and Sustainable Development'
►Internet Governance For Sustainable Human,
►Economic and Social Development

Come and join the OKMOOC Google team here: http://goo.gl/zqPkWR :)

(OER) Open Educational Resourse available for #OKMOOC students. What does any group of peers, or self-learners, need to know in order to self-organize learning about any topic? The Peeragogy Handbook (peeragogy.org) is a volunteer-created and maintained resource that we can use to bootstrap our peer learning in the MOOC.