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Flat World Knowledge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • 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
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  • Flat World Knowledge publishes their books under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial Share-Alike license.[9] Flat World Knowledge is the first commercial publisher of open textbooks.
  • Jöran Muuß-Merholz on 05 Sep 13
     
    "Open-licensed Publishing"
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Amazon Education to Launch New Website for Open Education Resources - Market Brief - 0 views

marketbrief.edweek.org/...-website-for-open-ed-resources OER amazon
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  • 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.
  • to be called Amazon Inspire
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  • during a “Transitioning to OER” session Friday as part of the National Conference on Education of the AASA, the School Superintendents Association
  • The new platform is in beta testing now, and is scheduled to be released publicly within the next two to three months
  • Users of the site will be able to add ratings and reviews, and to receive recommendations based on their previous selections
  • Educators will be able to curate open resources, self-publish material they have developed, and put a school’s entire digital library that is open and freely available online
  • select categories to modify their searches for open resources, much the way shoppers on Amazon today can choose categories to filter their searches
  • a completely free, open platform for free resources.
  • This piece we have committed to making absolutely free forever. We’re not going to lock the content up. We promised we won’t put a pay wall in front of it.
  • how it will achieve financial sustainability for Amazon Inspire, he said it could be in connecting users to books they might want to buy
  • or in using Amazon’s capabilities in self-publishing books
  • a lesson one of his educators uploaded in testing requires certain materials like batteries and coils
  • will be assigned metadata tags identified through the Learning Registry, a federally sponsored, online information-sharing network
  • “All of these groups–Amazon, Microsoft, Edmodo–they’re publishing their platforms on top of the Learning Registry,”
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This Trend Report: Open Educational Resources 2012 is published by the Special Interest... - 1 views

www.surf.nl/...2_10042012%20(ENGELS%20LR).pdf SURF oer creativecommons
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  • Jöran Muuß-Merholz on 01 Oct 12
     
    March 2012 Trend Report: Open Educational Resources 2012 is published by the Special Interest Group Open Educational Resources This report comprises articles by the following authors: Martijn Arnoldus - Creative Commons NL Cora Bijsterveld - Delft University of Technology Anda Counotte - Dutch Open University Wim Didderen - Dutch Open University Sofia Dopper - Delft University of Technology Ria Jacobi - Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences Ben Janssen - Dutch Open University Hester Jelgerhuis - SURF Ellen Kuipers - Arnhem/Nijmegen University of Applied Sciences Fred Mulder - Dutch Open University Martijn Ouwehand - Delft University of Technology Wilfred Rubens - Dutch Open University Robert Schuwer - Dutch Open University Willem van Valkenburg - Delft University of Technology Steven Verjans - Dutch Open University Nicolai van der Woert - Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre The editors of the report were Ria Jacobi (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences) and Nicolai van der Woert (Radboud  University Nijmegen Medical Centre, RUNMC).  Final editing Monique Janssens, JT&P Communicatie - www.JTenP.nl 
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Education - Creative Commons - 0 views

creativecommons.org/education OER creativecommons akteur international Verlag
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  • its potential is hindered by archaic copyright laws and incompatible technologies. We at Creative Commons work to minimize these barriers, by providing licenses and tools that anyone can use to share their educational materials with the world. Our licenses make textbooks and lesson plans easy to find, easy to share, and easy to customize and combine
  • We work with the global Open Educational Resources movement, providing the legal framework for Open Educational Resources (OER)
  • commercial textbook publisher that incorporates CC licenses into its business model. Co-founded by the Director of Marketing for Prentice Hall Business Publishing, FWK makes higher education textbooks freely available via CC BY-NC-SA
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  • print and supplementary materials at low costs
  • Bloomsbury Academic publishes “world-class research-based books across the humanities and social sciences
  • works with its authors to use CC licenses, and has several publications available via CC BY-NC, including Lawrence Lessig’s Remix.
  • “flexbooks” that are free to use and adapt via CC BY-NC-SA. The CK-12 Foundation is a major contributor to the California Free Digital Textbooks Initiative, a CA initiative that aligns open textbooks to state standards.
  • MIT OpenCourseWare has been releasing its materials under a CC BY-NC-SA license since 2004.
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Open Access Explained! - YouTube - 1 views

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  • Jöran Muuß-Merholz on 02 Nov 12
     
    "What is open access? Nick Shockey and Jonathan Eisen take us through the world of open access publishing and explain just what it's all about. Make sure to watch it in HD and Fullscreen!"
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CCC-TV - OMG! OER! - 0 views

media.ccc.de/...29c3-5203-en-omg_oer_h264.html OER Polen OERkritik vortragsvideo
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  • Jöran Muuß-Merholz on 01 Feb 13
     
    Polish government decided in favour of open-licensed e-textbooks. This is not to liking of big textbook publishers, reaping in profits hand over fist. While their black PR campaign focuses on technicalities, it seems obvious that their real beef is with the liberal licensing. Persons: Michał "rysiek" Woźniak
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segu Geschichte | Konzeptionsmerkmale und Statements | Projektvorstellung beim OER Fest... - 0 views

historischdenken.hypotheses.org/3550 segu Geschichte OER
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  • segu Geschichte | Konzeptionsmerkmale und Statements | Projektvorstellung beim OER Festival #OERde16 von Christoph Pallaske · Published 29. Februar 2016
  • Alternative zum Schulbuch
  • segu Geschichte hat einen Pokal und eine Urkunde für die Nominierung im Bildungsbereich Schule erhalten
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  • drei Statements zur Praxis der Erstellung von OER gegeben werden, die auf der inzwischen fünfjährigen Erfahrung der Entwicklung der Lernplattform beruhen
  • im Rahmen einer abgeordneten Lehrerstelle (Februar 2011 bis Januar 2017) am Historischen Institut der Universität zu Köln vom Historiker und Geschichtsdidaktiker Dr. Christoph Pallaske
  • Lernkonzept zur Planarbeit im Offenen Geschichtsunterricht und unterstützt damit selbstgesteuertes, individuelles und auf Differenzierung zielendes Lernen
  • Quizformate
  • Digitale Zeitleisten
  • Lernvideos
  • Digitale Karten
  • Interaktive Schaubilder
  • Virtuelle Erkundung historischer Orte mittels StreetView
  • Alternativen zum Konzept des kommerziellen Schulbuchs
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Creative Commons and Open Educational Resources - CC Wiki - 1 views

wiki.creativecommons.org/and_Open_Educational_Resources OER CC akteur Geschäftsmodell
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  • Creative Commons provides the legal and technical infrastructure essential to the long-term success of OER, making it possible for educational resources to be widely accessible, adaptable, interoperable, and discoverable.
  • important technical component to sharing successfully as well.
  • embedding each of its licenses with software code that makes the license terms machine-readable—that is—discoverable by a search engine.
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  • CC is also exploring ways to provide scalable search and discovery for educational resources on the web via its search prototype, DiscoverEd.
  • CC’s legal and technical tools have enabled–not to mention opening up opportunities for new business models in educational publishing (e.g., CK-12 Foundation, Flat World Knowledge, and Bloomsbury Academic, which publish textbooks and scholarly journals under CC licenses),
  • Jöran Muuß-Merholz on 16 Feb 12
     
    Ausführliche Darstellung des Beitrags von CC zu OER.
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Ministry of Education publishes OER ordinance | Iniciativa EA - 0 views

aberta.org.br/cation-publishes-oer-ordinance OER Brasilien OERpolicy
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  • 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
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  • Open Education Initiative (OEI) in partnership with dedicated public servants
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David Wiley steps down and adjourns the Open Education Conference - 0 views

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  • The conference, which grew from 40 attendees in 2003 to 850 this year, was a meeting place for advocates of open education
  • it’s a call to reset and start over
  • a fracturing of the tenuously aligned coalition of open education advocates
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  • differences in the goals and preferred tactics of open education advocates could no longer be bridged
  • Many people in the coalition had different goals, Feldstein wrote
  • Publishing companies have recently tried to enter the open education space, taking open educational resources and selling them with added supplemental material or charging for them through a closed platform
  • Are you primarily focused on reducing costs for students? Improving student success? Increasing pedagogical flexibility for faculty? Bringing retribution to publishers?
  • It’s a more mature, more critical, more nuanced discussion
  • which kinds of licenses should count as “open,”
  • “Open education is growing up,”
  • same belief of making educational materials available to everyone
  • had questioned Wiley’s prominent role because of his race, religion or association with a for-profit company
  • We could take advantage of more hybrid and online sessions
  • This year's Open Education Conference had more attendees than ever before. Why is it ending after 16 years, and what does its demise mean for the cause? By Lilah Burke November 6, 2019 .top-social {clear: both; width: 56px !important; background: #fafafa; position: absolute; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px 5px 5px 10px !important; left: -70px; top: 60px; border-radius: 10px 0 0 10px; border-right: 4px solid #f1f1f1 !important;} @media only screen and (max-width: 979px) { .top-social{ clear: both; width: 100% !important; background: #fafafa; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box; left: 0; top: 0; border-radius: 0; border-bottom: 4px solid #f1f1f1 !important; border-right: 0 !important; display: block; margin: 0; margin-top: 0; text-align: center; padding: 5px 0 0 0 !important; float:none !important; } body.node-type-special-reports .top-social { display:none; } }
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Öffentliches Geld - Öffentliches Gut!: Für offene Bildung brauchen wir Person... - 0 views

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  • von Heike Ekea Gleibs - 04.09.2022
  • Das Bildungsministerium hat eine Strategie zu freien Bildungsmaterialien erarbeitet. Um offene Bildung zu gestalten, braucht es aber mehr als Strukturförderung und Kulturwandel, findet unsere Kolumnistin. Unter anderem: Mut zum Kontrollverlust
  • Doch der Strategie fehlt etwas: Biss, Wille und Mut zur konsequenten Umsetzung.
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  • dass die OER-Strategie die Definition von freien Bildungsmaterialien, wie sie etwa die UNESCO empfiehlt, gleich zu Beginn verwässert
  • Dazu gehören die Creative-Commons-Lizenzen CC BY, CC BY-SA oder die Vollfreigabe CC0
  • Lehrende immer wieder in Grauzonen. Sie soll verhindern, dass Inhalte für kommerzielle Zwecke
  • Das Ministerium veröffentlichte die OER-Strategie zunächst nur im PDF-Format mit Kopierschutz
  • Auch viele weitere vom BMBF selbst herausgegebene Publikationen und Medienprodukte enthalten keine Lizenzangaben im Sinne der CC-Regelungen
  • Dabei sollten das BMBF, wie alle anderen Ministerien, samt Unterbehörden und öffentlich finanzierte Medien- und Rundfunkanstalten als gute Beispiele vorangehen
  • konsequente Umsetzung von „Öffentliches Geld – Öffentliches Gut!“ (ÖGÖG)
  • Hinter der zögerlichen Anwendung der eigens formulierten Prinzipien steckt wohl teilweise die Angst vor Kontrollverlust
  • Bildung […] die Menschen mit dem nötigen Wissen und den nötigen Kompetenzen ausstatten“ muss. Dahinter steht ein wissens- und kompetenzbasiertes Bildungsverständnis mit planbaren Lernzielen und -wegen.
  • Struktur- und Kulturwandel selbst als einen iterativen „Prozess des Erstellens, Mischens, Überarbeitens“ verstehen.
  • ausreichend Lehrkräfte und eine funktionierende IT-Infrastruktur
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29C3: OMG! OER! - 0 views

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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
  • Jöran Muuß-Merholz on 20 Dec 12
     
    Ankündigung zum Vortrag "OMG! OER! How big business fights open education in Poland, and how open education fights back!" by Michał "rysiek" Woźniak 
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Pearson creates searchable catalog of open educational resources | eCampus News - 1 views

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  • The publishing and education giant Pearson has wrangled up nearly 700,000 of these resources into an easily searchable catalog through its OpenClass Exchange platform.
  • An expansion of Pearson’s online learning environment OpenClass
  • It’s hard to locate the best open educational resources
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  • integrate into existing learning management systems
  • lot of them are video-based, which is intentional, but there’s also great simulations, courses and eBook content.”
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OER-Bibliothekarin - Ein neues Berufsfeld? - biboer - 0 views

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  • 22. März 2016
  • Bibliotheken im Bezug auf OER sozusagen im Blindflug
  • in Zukunft als OER-Bibliothekare
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  • Online-Lehr- und Lernmaterialien in ihren Katalogen verzeichnen
  • durch entsprechende Kennzeichnung suchbar machen
  • Unterstützung dabei leisten, selbst Inhalte zu gestalten und als offene Materialien zu veröffentlichen, bspw. In Form von Videos, Online-Vorlesungen und Knowledge-Clips
  • Beratung von Lernenden/Studierenden dazu, wo sie ggf. offen/frei verfügbare Alternativen zu Lehrbüchern finden
  • Lehrende die Kurse/Unterricht vorbereiten dazu zu beraten, wo vergleichbare Materialien zu finden sind die nachgenutzt und an die eigenen Bedarfe angepasst werden können
  • Unterstützung bei der Erstellung eigener Materialein z.B. durch Beratung zu Datenformaten und Lizenzierung
  • erster Schritt zur Akzeptanz von freien Bildungsmedien durch Bibliotheken wäre, offene Materialien im Katalog zu verzeichnen. Sie müssen kuratiert, mit Metadaten versehen und somit auffindbar gemacht werden
  • für die Entwicklung und Umsetzung einer Open-Policy in ihrer Institution oder Einrichtung einzusetzen
  • Öffentlichen Bibliotheken aktiv werden und als Partner von Schulen und Bildungseinrichtungen mit diesen kooperieren
  • amerikanische Bibliotheken
  • OER-Bibliothekarinnen helfen Mitarbeitenden an Universitäten und Hochschulen offene Bildungsressourcen zu finden, zu nutzen und, falls gewünscht, auch sie zu erstellen und zu verbreiten
  • Die California State University hat ebenfalls den Prozess der Literaturrecherche dahingehend angepasst, dass OER und andere freie Materialien bei Recherchen immer mit gesucht und die Ergebnisse der Trefferliste hinzugefügt werden
  • Für Öffentliche Bibliotheken spricht sehr vieles dafür, sich mit freien Bildungsmedien zu beschäftigen und diese auf die eine oder andere Weise in Bestand und Vermittlung zu integrieren
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Open educational resources - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • 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."
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  • make a contribution to the development of less advanced economies
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U.S. Department of Education Announces First-Ever Adviser to Expand Access to Open Digi... - 0 views

www.ed.gov/...open-digital-resources-schools oer OERUSA USA
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  • 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
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  • Open educational resources are an important element of an infrastructure for learning and ranges from podcasts to digital libraries to textbooks and games
  • penly licensed learning resources
  • frees up funding to support the transition to digital learning
  • a visit to Williamsfield Community School District in Illinois, where U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan stopped as part of his annual back-to-school bus tour
  • produced with public funds or foundation grants
  • there likely will be other rules – such as curricular standards – that limit who can update or change the content of the resource for use in the classroom or by others.
  • let the applicable rules defining appropriate uses of educational resources to come from educators and not publishers
  • Are the materials that the Williamsfield School District is using fully open? No. Most of the materials in the EngageNY collection for example use one of the most restrictive Creative Commons license.
  • Cable Green, September 15th, 2015
  • the progress the rural school district has made in shifting to digital and open educational resources (OER) to connect their students to the world. “The walls break down,” Zack Binder, the Pre K-12 Principal said. “You’re no longer in Williamsfield, Illinois. You have the same access to this information that anyone in the world does.”
  • er the past two years, the 310-student district decided to adapt and adopt OER
  • Secretary Duncan announced today the hiring of the Department’s first full-time OER position to lead a national effort to expand schools’ access to high-quality, openly-licensed learning resources and help districts and states follow the path of Williamsfield. 
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Submissions/Wiki Loves E-textbooks - Wikimania 2014 in London - 1 views

wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/...Wiki_Loves_E-textbooks OER Polen
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  • Centre for Education Development (a subsidiary of Polish Ministry of Education
  • "Wiki loves e-textbooks"
  • ct "epodręczniki" (e-textbooks)
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  • under CC-BY license
  • written by teams of professional experts from several Polish state universities
  • The idea of "Wiki loves e-textbooks" contest is to encourage Polish Wikipedians to adopt existing multimedia or create original ones for the needs of the textbooks
  • Teams of experts are creating tables with needed media, which are published in Wikipedia and participants of the contest can upload them to Wikimedia Commons using simplified upload wizard
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