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Ryan Wing

Curated Collections | OER Commons - 0 views

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    We are busy around the clock adding new educational resources to OER Commons. We work with the finest producers of instructional content in the world and gather their best work together especially for you. Then we ensure the resources are carefully described and fully indexed because we want you to be able to find exactly what you need, when you need it.
Ryan Wing

Technology Imperialism, the Californian Ideology, and the Future of Higher Education - 1 views

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    This keynote was delivered today at ICDE 2015 in Sun City, South Africa. The slides can also be found on Speakerdeck. The obnoxious American: I am the one who flies all the way to South Africa, to an international education conference, to talk about the future of ed-tech as imagined, as invested in, as narrated by America.
Ryan Wing

Meet Moments, Twitter's Most Important New Feature Ever - 0 views

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    A few months ago, a team at Twitter began to test a new feature. Codenamed Project Lightning, this project was an attempt at making Twitter easier to understand, especially if you're not a power user, or new to the platform entirely. "When you jump into Twitter," says Madhu Muthukumar, a product manager at Twitter, "things are already mid-stream.
Ryan Wing

CC Global Summit 2015 - 1 views

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    CC's Global Summit brings together our global community of technologists, legal experts, academics, and activists who support free culture and open knowledge shared worldwide. Taking place every two years around the world, the summit provides CC and the broader open web community an opportunity to gather, share ideas, and advance our efforts. Can't make it? Watch live streaming.
Ryan Wing

Grant giving: Global funders to focus on interdisciplinarity - 0 views

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    Wes Fernandes/Nature Three arguments are often made in favour of interdisciplinary research. First, complex modern problems such as climate change and resource security are not amenable to single-discipline investigation; they often require many types of expertise across the biological, physical and social disciplines.
Ryan Wing

Architecture's Fine Line Between Stealing and Inspiration - 0 views

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    In 2004, a recent graduate of Yale's Master of Architecture sued David Childs, a high-profile architect and partner at Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill. The dispute was over Childs' design for One World Trade Center, then-dubbed the Freedom Tower. Thomas Shine, the former student, claimed that Childs had ripped off Shine's Olympic Tower design, which he'd submitted as a studio project.
Ryan Wing

Open Educational Resources Mythbusting - 2 views

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    Myths about OERs can stop people from using them and causing real educational change. The goal of this publication is to dispel those myths.
Ryan Wing

Microsoft Built Its Own Linux Because Everyone Else Did - 0 views

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    Microsoft is now running its online empire with help from its own version of Linux. If you know Microsoft and its long history, this rather straightforward sentence reads almost like a paradox. It invites you to read it again-just to make sure it says what you think it said. Ahhh....the power of open source.
gsiemens

Questions about online 'openness' | Jenny Connected - 4 views

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    This introspective post is provocative in a purposeful way. We are challenged to examine our perspectives and our practice and ask candid questions of ourselves. "Are we willing to "go open" (Mackness, 2015, p.1) ?
Ryan Wing

Lumen Learning - The 5R Open Course Design Framework: Wednesday Oct 21 @ 3pm ET/12pm PT - 0 views

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    As open educational resources (OER) enter mainstream use in higher education, Lumen Learning shares a course design framework for ensuring OER courses and degree programs maintain consistent high quality. Attend this webinar to hear open education pioneer David Wiley share the 5R Quality Framework, a set of guidelines and best practices to help you capitalize on the unique rights and possibilities afforded by teaching with OER.
Ryan Wing

Open Education Conference #OpenEd15 - 1 views

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    The 12th Annual Open Education Conference #OpenEd15: The Impact of Open November 18-20, Vancouver BC, Canada Open Educational Resources (OER) provide a massive, high quality open content infrastructure on top of which innovative people and organizations are building a new generation of educational models.
tadtar

OER Research Hub - Evidence Map - 3 views

shared by tadtar on 18 Sep 15 - No Cached
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    Welcome to the OER Impact Map, a record of evidence about the global impact of open educational resources (OER). This site is maintained by the OER Research Hub project. The purpose is to help people understand the impact of open educational resources (OER). You can explore the data in a number of ways.
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    This type of comprehensive research provides data that will be crucial to informing evidence based decisions about future directions. The visual map is effective in conveying the global impact at a glance but viewers are enticed to delve deeper into the data and its implications.
Ryan Wing

Here's the Real Way to Get Internet to the Next 4 Billion People - 0 views

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    Around 3.2 billion people have access to the Internet. That's amazing, but it's fewer than half of the 7 billion or so people on earth. And while Internet access was once a luxury, it is quickly becoming essential as the world's commerce, educational resources, and entertainment move online.
gsiemens

Main page | Musopen - 5 views

shared by gsiemens on 08 Apr 14 - No Cached
Laura Jones

2012 Book Archive - 2 views

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    This is a link to the open textbooks with a CC-BY-SA license previously offered by Flatworld Knowledge
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    Incredible, thanks!
Laura Jones

Open Access Journals - 2 views

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    Peer reviewed Journals and Conference Proceedings
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