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Mathieu Plourde

Policy Guidelines FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND PROMOTION OF OPEN ACCESS - 0 views

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    Scientific information is both a researcher's greatest output and technological innovation's most important resource. Open Access (OA) is the provision of free access to peer-reviewed, scholarly and research information to all. It requires that the rights holder grants worldwide irrevocable right of access to copy, use, distribute, transmit, and make derivative works in any format for any lawful activities with proper attribution to the original author. Open Access uses Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to increase and enhance the dissemination of scholarship. OA is about Freedom, Flexibility and Fairness.
Mathieu Plourde

How important are open ebook standards to universities? - 0 views

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    Ebook standards may lack the glamour that the technology attracts, but the arrival of ePub3 has the potential to transform how the academy creates and delivers its content to students and researchers. Just weeks into the New Year and already there is a new ebooks revelation that colleges and universities need to digest. January saw the launch of Apple's new iBooks2 software which grabbed headlines (see the BBC article here) and sparked heated debate across the academic community. Quietly underpinning the technology of the iBooks software is ePub.  ePub is the 'defacto' ebook standard, with the latest version of ePub3 supporting complex layouts and rich media and interactivity for eTextbooks and professional and scientific publications.
Mathieu Plourde

Game Changers: Education and Information Technologies - 0 views

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    "Game Changers: Education and Information Technologies is a collection of chapters and case studies contributed by college and university presidents, provosts, faculty, and other stakeholders. Institutions are finding new ways of achieving higher education's mission without being crippled by constraints or overpowered by greater expectations. "
Mathieu Plourde

New Media Consortium Names 10 Top 'Metatrends' Shaping Educational Technology - 0 views

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    " Openness - concepts like open content, open data, and open resources, along with notions of transparency and easy access to data and information - is moving from a trend to a value for much of the world. As authoritative sources lose their importance, there is need for more curation and other forms of validation to generate meaning in information and media."
Mathieu Plourde

US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions: Accessibility and Education - 0 views

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    "Full Committee Hearing - The Promise of Accessible Technology: Challenges and Opportunities"
Mathieu Plourde

An Open Letter to Academic Publishers About Open Access - 0 views

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    "That's what you have to reckon with. Helped along by technology, that open culture has grown much stronger in the 10 years since another scholarly boycott aimed at publishers helped create the open-access Public Library of Science. Its flagship journal, PLoS One, published almost 14,000 articles last year, according to its publisher, Peter Binfield. "
Mathieu Plourde

'Free-Range Learners': Study Opens Window Into How Students Hunt for Educational Conten... - 1 views

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    "Ms. Morgan borrows the phrase "free-range learning" to describe students' behavior, and she finds that they generally shop around for content in places educators would endorse. Students seem most favorably inclined to materials from other universities. They mention lecture videos from Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology far more than the widely publicized Khan Academy, she says."
Mathieu Plourde

Harvard and M.I.T. Team Up to Offer Free Online Courses - 0 views

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    In what is shaping up as an academic Battle of the Titans - one that offers vast new learning opportunities for students around the world - Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday announced a new nonprofit partnership, known as edX, to offer free online courses from both universities.
Mathieu Plourde

Readium - Digital Publishing meets Open Web - 0 views

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    "Readium, a project of the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) and supporters, is an open source reference system and rendering engine for EPUB publications. EPUB is the industry-standard open format for eBooks and digital publications. The latest version, EPUB 3, is based on Web Standard technologies such as HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, SVG, and the DOM. The overall aim of the Readium project is to ensure that open source software for handling EPUB 3 publications is readily available, to accelerate adoption of EPUB 3 as the universal, accessible, global digital publishing format. Readium is built on WebKit , the embeddable open source Web content engine."
Mathieu Plourde

Booktype - Open source ebook publishing - 0 views

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    "Booktype is a free, open source platform that produces beautiful, engaging books formatted for print, Amazon, iBooks and almost any ereader within minutes. Create books on your own or with others via an easy-to-use web interface. Build a community around your content with social tools and use the reach of mobile, tablet and ebook technology to engage new audiences. "
Mathieu Plourde

Thinking (Strategically) About Badges - 0 views

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    one of the most important aspects -- in my opinion -- of the Open Badges project is that it is "open." The infrastructure is open (anyone can become an issuer). The technology is open (open source). And users control their own data.
Mathieu Plourde

What is edX? - 0 views

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    "An organization established by MIT and Harvard University that will develop an open-source technology platform to deliver online courses. EdX will support Harvard and MIT faculty in conducting research on teaching and learning on campus through tools that enrich classroom and laboratory experiences."
Mathieu Plourde

The Missing 20th Century: How Copyright Protection Makes Books Vanish - 0 views

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    The above chart shows a distribution of 2500 newly printed fiction books selected at random from Amazon's warehouses. What's so crazy is that there are just as many from the last decade as from the decade between 1910 and 1920. Why? Because beginning in 1923, most titles are copyrighted. Books from before 1923 tend to be in the public domain, and the result is that Amazon carries them -- lots of them.
Mathieu Plourde

Opening Up the Academy: The "Open" Agenda, Technology, and Universities - 0 views

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    "The success of these largely independent initiatives does, however, raise a question: should they continue to be pursued separately, allowing the individuals involved to get on with it, or is there a case for greater coordination as part of wider institutional strategy? The answer to this question lies partly in what the different initiatives have in common."
markuos morley

Opening Up the Academy: The "Open" Agenda, Technology, and Universities (EDUCAUSE Revie... - 0 views

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    Educause Review article with a more UK slant on open access and open data
anonymous

June 9 - "Teaching and Learning Weekly" is out | Education Futures | Scoop.it - 0 views

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    An online newspaper that collects together the week's news relating to teaching and learning - particularly for those interested in finding resources and inspirational stories about education. Read and subscribe free online at: http://paper.li/f-1328546324
anonymous

Aug 13 - Teaching and Learning Weekly | Education Futures | Scoop.it - 0 views

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    An online newspaper that collects together the week's news relating to teaching and learning - particularly for those interested in finding resources and inspirational stories about education. Read and subscribe free at:  http://paper.li/f-1328546324
anonymous

Massive List of MOOC Resources, Lit and Literati | Studying Teaching and Learning | Sco... - 1 views

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    "We've been following the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) movement for a couple years now because we and our clients are all engaged in online learning at some level, be it totally online, flipped or hybrid, or just lecture capture for on-demand replay." In this post on Mediasite, Erica St. Angel has collected an impressive list of MOOC resources.
anonymous

July 30 - Teaching and Learning Weekly is out | Education Futures | Scoop.it - 0 views

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    An online newspaper that collects together the week's news relating to teaching and learning - particularly for those interested in finding resources and inspirational stories about education. Read and subscribe free at:  http://paper.li/f-1328546324
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