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How big business fights open education in Poland, and how open education fights back!

A well-funded black PR campaign is rages in Polish media in an attempt to convince parents and teachers (and through them, the government) to oppose e-textbooks.

how we (the Coalition for Open Education) try to fend off the well-funded and ruthless publishers' campaign

OER movement originated from developments in open and distance learning (ODL) and in the wider context of a culture of open knowledge, open source, free sharing and peer collaboration

MIT OpenCourseWare project is credited for having sparked a global Open Educational Resources Movement after announcing in 2001 that it was going to put MIT's entire course catalog online and launching this project in 2002

aspirations of OER proponents range from a desire to reshape the captive market of textbook publishers[8] to the aim of creating "a world where each and every person on earth can access and contribute to the sum of all human knowledge."

Flat World Knowledge is a publisher of college-level open textbooks and educational supplements

The company originally offered every textbook published for free using online delivery under the open content paradigm

no longer offer a free version citing financial concerns as the reason for the change

learning

teaching

assessment

Yesterday President Obama announced a new initiative to promote open education as part of an update to the U.S. Open Government National Action Plan.

OPAL has been established through international organisations including UNESCO, ICDE and EFQUEL in order to establish a forum which works to build greater trust in using and promoting open educational resources. The project is part funded by the European Commission Education and Training Lifelong Learning Programme.

OPAL Initiative is a partnership between seven organizations including ICDE, UNESCO, European Foundation for Quality, the Open University UK, Aalto University and the Catholic University Portugal. It is led by the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany and partly funded by the European Commission.

The OPAL Initiative moves beyond the issue of access to open educational resources (OER), and focuses on innovation and quality through open educational practices (OEP). Existing approaches for fostering the use of OER have made achievements by focusing on building access to resources (MERLOT, MIT OpenCourseWare, Stanford iTunes,OpenLearn, Rice University, the UNESCO Open Training Platform, the UNESCO OER wiki) and licence models (Creative Commons). However, concerns over quality, the absence of trust on the part of learners and educators, and a lacking sense of ownership of the materials hinder wider acceptance of OER. OPAL seeks to build trust by establishing an environment for quality and Innovation through OEP.

11. September 2014 | Till Kreutzer

Dabei zeigen die Erfahrungen mit freien Lizenzen, Open-Source-Software und Wikipedia, dass kein Problem unüberwindbar ist, oft aber neue Antworten gefunden werden.

Mythos 1: OER bergen große urheberrechtliche Probleme

September 16, 2015

The U.S. Department of Education announced today the hiring of the first ever open education adviser to lead a national effort to expand schools’ access to high-quality, openly-licensed learning resources

Marcinek will serve in the Office of Educational Technology (OET) and focus on helping both K-12 and higher education connect with teaching, learning and research resources in the public domain that are freely available to anyone over the web

people linking to copyrighted videos posted illegally in YouTube as examples of OERs

The words “open” and “content” were first used together in the spring of 1998.

I waited to make the decision between the terms “open content” and “free content” until discussing the choices with the leaders of both camps (Eric Raymond and Richard Stallman). I then made the decision very deliberately

Feb. 14, 2016

Amazon Education is working on a new platform that will allow schools to upload, manage, share, and discover open education resources from a home page that in some ways resembles the one shoppers are accustomed to accessing on the massive online retailer’s website.

that determines that any educational resources paid for by the Ministry, which is to be used for basic education (K-12) should be open educational resources, giving permissions for anyone to “access, use, adapt and distribute at no cost”. It further emphasises the importance of open formats and standards whenever technically viable

open licenses for all educational resources produced through the Open University of Brazil program

open license for all educational material in a nationwide robotics for education purchase and the use of an open license (for some resources) in the nationwide textbook purchase program

Angebote für Online-Kurse auf Deutsch noch sehr begrenzt

Workshop gemeinsam mit Creative Commons und der Initiative “School of Open” ! Die Initiative von Creative Commons und der Peer-2-Peer University (P2PU) hat das Ziel, Onlinekurse zu entwickeln, die dabei helfen, freie Inhalte und Tools zu erstellen, zu nutzen und weiterzuentwickeln.

Nach einem kurzen Input von Creative Commons legen wir dann los mit der Arbeit.

Google hat mit seinem Course Builder ein Werkzeug zur Erstellung von Online-Lehrmaterialien als Open Source freigegeben.

Online-Kurs zur Power-Suche mit Google

experimentellen frühen Schritt in der Welt der Online-Ausbildung