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Jöran Muuß-Merholz

Creative Commons and Open Educational Resources - CC Wiki - 1 views

  • 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),
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    Ausführliche Darstellung des Beitrags von CC zu OER.
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

CC Search - 1 views

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    "Finden Sie Inhalte, die geteilt, genutzt und remixt werden können."
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

Amazon Education to Launch New Website for Open Education Resources - Market Brief - 0 views

  • 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,”
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

Pearson creates searchable catalog of open educational resources | eCampus News - 1 views

  • 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.”
Florian Sänger

Open Educational Resource (OER) portal pilot - 0 views

  • The primary aim of this project is to develop the first working prototype of an Open Educational Resource portal service, by developing a metadata aggregation engine and a web portal front-end.
  • create a one-stop-shop for national learning resource providers and their users
  • metadata only not the object itself, the content remains in its original repository
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  • trace the users' behavior and thus identify them and follow their learning methods. In this way, OER can provide users search targets tailored to their personal learning profile.
  • the idea of a European-level open educational resource portal to address the gap between national- and global-level repositories
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

YouTube Content for I-Want-to-Do Moments - Think with Google - 0 views

  • Searches related to "how to" on YouTube are growing 70% year over year,1 and more than 100M hours of how-to content have been watched in North America so far this year.2
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

https://www.edutopia.org/article/uncertain-future-oer - 0 views

  • Open educational resources (OER) have been on the cusp of arriving for more than 15 years, but somehow they never do. So what’s the holdup?
  • Teachers Aren’t Onboard—With Good Reason
  • Back in 2012, when OER were more than a decade old,
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      the IDEA of OER was 10 years old
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  • Unlike Wikipedia, Yelp, and Airbnb, most OER websites have failed to attract a large and active audience
  • search OER Commons, Curriki, Amazon Inspire, OpenEd, or any number of other open-source education sites.
  • So a vital aspect of the sharing economy—the idea that everyone is a content creator—does not seem to be panning out for OER.
  • products that allow users to access OER as well as proprietary content
  • Teachers Pay Teachers, which has been around since 2006, paid out about $100 million across the 3 million resources on the site in 2017
  • if districts follow this path, the discoverability problem may never be solved, a
  • So will we ever get to a Wikipedia-type model of teaching resources,
  • After nearly two decades, it’s still too soon to tell when, how—or even if—OER’s moment will arrive for K–12 education.
Frank Waldschmidt-Dietz

edu-sharing - 0 views

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