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  • Ted Curran on 04 Apr 11
     
    Content Tagged with oer + opencontent AcrossWorld Education | Connect. Collaborate. Innovate. Monday, March 28, 2011 opensource: del.icio.us tag/opensource education opensource opencontent OER My #CCK11 Talk - Sharing to Connect, Interact and Learn! Thursday, March 17, 2011 opensource: del.icio.us tag/opensource sharing opensource opencontent OER openness cck11 elesig OPAL - The Open Educational Quality Initiative Saturday, March 12, 2011 opensource: del.icio.us tag/opensource opensource opencontent OER opened EDUCAUSE Review Magazine Thursday, February 10, 2011 Volume 45, Number 4, July/August 2010 | EDUCAUSE Article about OPEN: Open Educational Resources, Open Faculty, etc. opensource: del.icio.us tag/opensource opensource opencontent OER Content on Congress 2011 -- THE Journal Tuesday, January 04, 2011 opensource: del.icio.us tag/opensource open opensource Conference opencontent OER OpenCourseWare- Open High School of Utah Tuesday, January 04, 2011 opensource: del.icio.us tag/opensource open opensource resources opencontent opencourseware OER MERLOT - Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching Saturday, January 01, 2011 opensource: del.icio.us tag/opensource Web2.0 open education opencontent higher OER lessonplans The Cape Town Open Education Declaration Thursday, October 21, 2010 "It is at once a statement of principle, a statement of strategy and a statement of commitment. It is meant to spark dialogue, to inspire action and to help the open education movement grow. Open education is a living idea. As the movement grows, this idea will continue to evolve. There will be other visions initiatives and declarations beyond Cape Town. This is exactly the point. The Cape Town signatories have committed to developing further strategies, especially around open technology and teaching practices." opensource: del.icio.us tag/opensource education opensource openaccess opencontent OER declaration openeducation Home - OLCOS Thursday, October 21
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Open Textbooks « Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources - 0 views

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  • Ted Curran on 07 Apr 11
     
    Open Textbooks View over 500 open textbooks in many subject areas: Art Biology & Genetics Business Chemistry Computer Science Economics Education Engineering & Electronics English & Composition Health & Nursing History Languages & Communications Literature Math Music Philosophy Physics Political Science Psychology Science Sociology Statistics & Probability Find open and free textbooks that may be suitable for use in community college courses from the list of Subjects provided. For descriptions of these open textbooks, see listings in MERLOT and OER Commons. Most of the textbooks on this list have Creative Commons (CC) open licenses or GNU-Free Document License. Others are U.S. government documents in the public domain (PD). Many other textbooks are free to view online but are NOT OPEN for reuse and customization. See Copyrighted Digital Textbooks for a list of learning content without open licenses. Learn more about open textbooks:   FAQs Community College Open Textbook Project OER Commons
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To Share or Not to Share: Is That the Question? (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

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  • The use of open materials by faculty is something of a continuum, with those who closely guard their intellectual property and privacy on one end, with faculty who seek out and use open content and technologies in the middle, and with those who actively contribute to open content on the other end.
  • All the faculty I spoke to could think of at least a few contexts in which they would not be willing and/or able to share or participate openly.
  • For example, few faculty are willing to embark on large, time-intensive projects, such as writing textbooks, without some guarantee that they will be compensated for their personal investment (time
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  • Research faculty may need to closely guard patentable research under the terms of their institutional contracts, even if their inclination drives them to share openly
  • Science faculty, for example, often publish their research with multiple authors and may be more used to a collaborative model, whereas humanities faculty write for publications that favor a single-author model.
  • Commonly, faculty will lock down some content (research or texts) under intellectual property laws but feel morally obligated to share in another aspect of their field.
  • Two factors delineate a faculty member's attitude toward openness: a nature influence and a nurture influence.
  • the strength of a person's inclination toward sharing
  • On the one end are the keepers, faculty who ask themselves: "Why would anyone outside my course want to know what I think?" At the other extreme are the sharers, faculty who believe that their contribution to the conversation, content, and/or community is invaluable.
  • The second factor that influences attitude toward openness is how strongly the person feels a moral responsibility to share freely with his or her community.
  • Many said something to the effect that they felt it was their duty as an educator to share
  • that everyone in education should share
  • Open faculty see sharing their ideas and expertise as a way to quickly validate or refute ideas, to promote important academic programs, and/or to mentor those instructors with less experience or to be mentored by those with greater experience or more creative ideas. Open faculty value the ideas and content shared by others in their networks and feel an obligation to share alike. This sense of moral responsibility to share is so strong in some faculty that it bothers them when ideas and content are closely guarded. They see this as an affront to their values.
  • In the category of faculty who are strong sharers and strongly open, we find project leaders and thought leaders.
  • What's the difference between those faculty who share with colleagues locally and those who share on the web? Technology skills.
  • Open faculty are learning some of these technology skills from formal workshops and professional training, but many spoke of learning technology skills from other open faculty (or even students) during on-the-fly informal learning sessions.
  • Many of the faculty I spoke to suggested (strongly) that participation in open digital activities (e.g., blogging, writing open-source software, being a curator of open-source materials) should count toward tenure and promotion.
  • Naturally, administrators worry about open digital faculty. What if they say something the institutional leaders don't agree with? What if their work with students on the web creates a liability? Administrators can do three simple things to minimize these issues: If a faculty member writes or shares content openly on the web, using space provided by the college, the inclusion of a simple disclosure statement can provide some separation between the individual and the institution (for example, "These views/materials are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of my institution"). To guard against liability, administrators can make sure that open faculty receive training on copyright issues with materials used, privacy issues with students, and security issues with web technologies. These days, most campus activities involve the potential for liability. All administrators can do is make a good-faith effort to protect the institution by ensuring that faculty have a solid grounding in the potential risks. Today's students live much of their lives in the digital world. Faculty have the potential to model and promote good Internet behavior to future workers and leaders. Administrators can support open digital faculty by making an effort to understand what the faculty do: read some of what they write; take them to lunch and discuss their latest projects; try to understand that these faculty are public ambassadors of the institution and stealth faculty developers on campus. In gaining the trust of open digital faculty, administrators will more likely be seen as advisors than as adversaries.
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  • "Open access will revolutionize 21st century knowledge work and accelerate the diffusion of ideas and evidence that support just in time learning and the evolution of thinking in a number of disciplines." Daniel Pesut (Indiana University School of Nursing, USA)
  • They are an outstanding source of medical and scientific information." Jeffrey M. Weinberg (St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, USA)
  • "Open access journals are extremely useful for graduate students, investigators and all other interested persons to read important scientific articles and subscribe scientific journals. Indeed, the research articles span a wide range of area and of high quality. This is specially a must for researchers belonging to institutions with limited library facility and funding to subscribe scientific journals." Debomoy K. Lahiri (Indiana University School of Medicine, USA)
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  • "Open access journals represent a major break-through in publishing. They provide easy access to the latest research on a wide variety of issues. Relevant and timely articles are made available in a fraction of the time taken by more conventional publishers. Articles are of uniformly high quality and written by the world's leading authorities." Robert Looney (Naval Postgraduate School, USA)
  • "Not only do open access journals greatly improve the access to high quality information for scientists in the developing world, it also provides extra exposure for our papers." J. Ferwerda (University of Oxford, UK)
  • "In principle, all scientific journals should have open access, as should be science itself.
  • "The widest possible diffusion of information is critical for the advancement of science. In this perspective, open access journals are instrumental in fostering researches and achievements." Alessandro Laviano (Sapienza - University of Rome, Italy)
  • "Open access journals are probably one of the most important contributions to promote and diffuse science worldwide." Jaime Sampaio (University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal)
  • "Open access journals make up a new and rather revolutionary way to scientific publication. This option opens several quite interesting possibilities to disseminate openly and freely new knowledge and even to facilitate interpersonal communication among scientists." Eduardo A. Castro (INIFTA, Argentina)
  • "Open access journals are freely available online throughout the world, for you to read, download, copy, distribute, and use. The articles published in the open access journals are high quality and cover a wide range of fields." Kenji Hashimoto (Chiba University, Japan)
  • "Open Access journals offer an innovative and efficient way of publication for academics and professionals in a wide range of disciplines. The papers published are of high quality after rigorous peer review and they are Indexed in: major international databases. I read Open Access journals to keep abreast of the recent development in my field of study." Daniel Shek (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
  • Ted Curran on 09 Mar 11
     
    This is a list of quotable testimonials about the value and quality of open educational journals from some respected institutions worldwide.
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Open Educational Resources: New Possibilities for Change and Sustainability | Friesen |... - 0 views

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  • The term open educational resources was first adopted at the 2002 UNESCO Forum
  • “the open provision of educational resources, enabled by information and communication technologies, for consultation, use and adaptation by a community of users for noncommercial purposes” (UNESCO, 2002, p. 24)
  • he notion of openness, for its part, has been given legal force and definition through the set of copyright licenses released by Creative Commons, also in 2002
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  • A second general difference separating learning objects from their open educational counterparts is indicated by the absence of any explicit reference to the openness or the open and noncommercial character of the resource.
  • What is significant in each definition is precisely what is included and excluded: Each definition highlights (either directly or indirectly) modularity as a technological and design attribute for the object and its content, emphasizing the “self-contained,” “building block” or “object-oriented” nature of the technology.
  • Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT)
  • this project recently met its original ambitious goal of placing all of MIT’s course content online by 2007
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  • the funding for the operations of many of the projects is either provided by a parent institution
  • by a governmental organization
  • or by a combination of these types of sources.
  • he many projects that have fallen inactive or been discontinued
  • the nature and the enormity of the sustainability challenge online educational resource collections face.  
  • The clear sustainability lesson from both this listing of inactive projects and the earlier listing of active efforts is the importance of ongoing, operational institutional or consortial funding for educational resource collections and the difficulty of realizing alternative funding models. Online educational resource initiatives of this kind, one can conclude, need to be seen as processes or services rather than as products that persist of their own accord.
  • Only projects that are large-scale, well-funded, and able to benefit from a first-mover advantage (i.e., being one of the first of their kind) seem to have any chance of developing collections whose scope extends to all educational subjects
  • The issue of sustainability of OER projects, unsurprisingly, was one of the top concerns
  • awareness raising and promotion; communities and networking of creators and users; and capacity development, specifically as it relates to the development and pedagogical application of OERs.
  • The necessary preconditions for viability – awareness, capacity, community, cultural change – are identical with what would be the results of success.
  • a vicious circle of “chicken and egg.
  • the majority of the use of this material not only takes place outside of the USA, it also occurs outside in the context of reuse and adaptation by teachers or instructional designers.
  • it is educationally valuable without detracting from the educational value of the face-to-face activities on which the collected content is based.
  • This finding provides clear evidence of multiple areas of significant benefit accruing to MIT the institution from the open courseware project, and it provides a positive illustration of important possibilities for change.
  • “OCW use is centered on subjects for which MIT is recognized leader
  • 32% of faculty say that putting materials online has improved their teaching
  • 35 percent of freshmen who were aware of OCW prior to deciding to attend MIT indicate the site was a significant or very significant influence on their choice of school” (cited in Wiley, 2006, p. 6).
  • David Wiley presents a conclusion that may be of the utmost significance for OER: “The time will come when an OpenCourseWare or similar collection of open access educational materials will be as fully expected from every higher education institution as an informational website is now” (2006, p. 6).
  • Simply put, this is enlightened institutional self-interest.
  • student recruitment
  • the potential for improving teaching and for better supporting learning
  • a kind of viral marketing of the quality of teaching and learning in areas of strategic institutional interest
  • They need not risk financial and cultural capital on creating yet another collection or repository, but instead can invest it in the quality and accessibility of their course offerings.
  • Open CourseWare Consortium and its OCW finder
  • It only asks of its members a contribution of 12 courses to its growing collection of over 10,000 courses
  • The point, as Wiley explains, is that “this strategy of openness” holds out the promise of “catalyzing further innovations” (2006).
Ted Curran

Why Bother Being Open? « iterating toward openness - 0 views

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  • I’ve always been an “argue by describing the benefits” kind of guy as opposed to an “argue on grounds of moral superiority” kind of guy (which is why I end up in the open camp more often than the free camp).
  • a free-to-access, online “digital publication of high quality university-level educational materials… organized as courses, and often includ[ing] course planning materials and evaluation tools as well as thematic content” that does not use an open license is not an OpenCourseWare.
  • MIT OCW, the website says, “Each course we publish requires an investment of $10,000 to $15,000 to compile course materials from faculty, ensure proper licensing for open sharing, and format materials for global distribution.”
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  • 25% of the per-course publication costs (not technology infrastructure or external outreach costs – I’m talking about costs directly related to publishing a course) derive specifically from the desire for the final publication to employ an open license.
  • what is the return on this investment? What benefit are users deriving from open licensing that they could not derive if MIT published these materials online with a default copyright statement?
  • Would users still receive this benefit if MIT OCW were posted online with a traditional, full copyright statement?
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  • The word has different meanings in different contexts. Our commonsense, every day experience teaches us that "open" is a continuous (not binary) construct. A door can be wide open, mostly open, cracked slightly open, or completely closed. So can your eyes, so can a window, etc.
  • Put simply, the fewer copyright restrictions are placed on the user of a piece of content, the more open the content is.
  • Reuse - the right to reuse the content in its unaltered / verbatim form (e.g., make a backup copy of the content) Revise - the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself (e.g., translate the content into another language) Remix - the right to combine the original or revised content with other content to create something new (e.g., incorporate the content into a mashup) Redistribute - the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others (e.g., give a copy of the content to a friend)
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  • Content is open to the extent that its license allows users to engage in the 4R activities.
  • Ted Curran on 17 Feb 10
     
    .perfect description of "open content"
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  • Ted Curran on 16 Apr 10
     
    Open content licensing may not be a red-hot issue in the foundation sector, but it is emerging as a salient one with consequences in many fields. It is an inherently complex issue. In an attempt to learn more about the licensing practices that are used in the world of private charitable foundations - and specifically to learn the degree to which open content licensing may or may not be appropriate in that sector and why - the Berkman Center and the Hewlett Foundation commissioned the FDR Group, a nonpartisan public opinion research firm, to conduct a qualitative research study.
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Open Education: A New Paradigm - 0 views

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  • technology has produced inconsistent results
  • Siloed institutions and enterprise applications, lack of data interoperability, escalating total cost of ownership, and absence of industry standards contribute to inefficient processes, creating barriers to collaboration and innovation.
  • more open access to education for more students, regardless of their institution, the region they live in, or any other factor
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  • To address these challenges, the education industry must offer
  • more open data and processes within and across institutions to improve quality and outcomes measurements
  • a more open culture of collaboration to foster reuse and sharing, to ultimately lower costs of operation and delivery within the industry
  • Many educational institutions are taking steps to embrace open education by creating more open, flexible processes and data access to improve quality and performance outcomes, while lowering cost.
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  • Ted Curran on 30 Jun 10
     
    Open for Learning: The CMS and the Open Learning Network
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'Open Courseware' Idea Spreads - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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  • "People who come to public health are committed to really making a difference in the lives of people," he says. "By and large academics, especially in public health, realize that the availability of the content is going to have a beneficial effect."
  • Copyright is another challenge in running open-courseware projects, the meeting's participants say.
  • Many professors regularly use charts, graphs, or other illustrations they've culled from textbooks or other copyrighted works in slide presentations or handouts. Although using those illustrations in a classroom is allowed under fair-use provisions of copyright law, universities must get permission before putting the same materials online where anyone can see them.
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  • He says he prefers material on open-courseware sites over that found on professors' Web sites. "There's some level of quality control and general oversight associated" with open courseware, he says. "If I'm just strolling around on the Internet and come across some random professor's Web site," he adds, "it just kind of dilutes my confidence in it, and it makes me spend a lot more time really sitting down and looking for what I like."
  • Though officials hope the materials will have educational benefit, they stress that they are not a substitute for taking courses at the institutions.
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  • Read the Declaration
  • 1. Educators and learners: First, we encourage educators and learners to actively participate in the emerging open education movement.
  • 2. Open educational resources: Second, we call on educators, authors, publishers and institutions to release their resources openly.
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  • 3. Open education policy: Third, governments, school boards, colleges and universities should make open education a high priority.
  • These strategies represent more than just the right thing to do. They constitute a wise investment in teaching and learning for the 21st century. They will make it possible to redirect funds from expensive textbooks towards better learning. They will help teachers excel in their work and provide new opportunities for visibility and global impact. They will accelerate innovation in teaching. They will give more control over learning to the learners themselves. These are strategies that make sense for everyone.
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  • Ted Curran on 26 May 10
     
    Google made a number of announcements in the past week that are of interest to educators: opening Google Wave to the public and extending Google Voice accounts to ...
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David Wiley: Open Teaching Multiplies the Benefit but Not the Effort - Wired Campus - T... - 0 views

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  • In 2004 I began asking my students to post their homework on their personal, publicly accessible blogs.
  • By changing their homework assignments from disposable, private conversations between them and me (the way printed or e-mailed assignments work in students’ minds) into public, online statements that became part of a continuing conversation, we realized very real benefits.
  • The result was a teacher’s dream — the students’ writing became a little longer, a little more thoughtful, and a little more representative of their actual intellectual abilities.
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  • When the visits and comments from professionals around the world started coming in, students realized that the papers they were writing weren’t just throw-away pieces for class – they were read and discussed by their future peers out in the world.
  • I began posting my syllabus on a publicly available wiki and doing my best to select only readings that were also publicly available and that I could link to from the syllabus.
  • I needed to find online articles and materials that my students would be able to get with a single click at no cost.
  • As I began blogging about my online teaching materials, people from around the world began to see and make use of them in their own courses. Others outside universities started using them to guide their personal study.
  • Introduction to Open Education.
  • Do we professors, who live rather privileged lives relative to the vast majority of the planet’s population, have a moral obligation to make our teaching efforts as broadly impactful as possible, reaching out to bless the lives of as many people as we can? Especially when participatory technologies make it so inexpensive (almost free) for us to do so? I believe the answer is yes. —David Wiley
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  • Ted Curran on 19 Feb 10
     
    Amazing collection of different open education-based initiatives happening at UM
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  • Marcus Banks on 09 Mar 11
     
    Portal to open resources at the University of Michigan
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  • Ted Curran on 09 Nov 10
     
    A collection of open, online, free pharmacy books compiled by an Egyptian pharmacist. BEWARE-- many of these are verging on out-of-date....
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Johansen Dissertation on Sustainability of OCW Available « iterating toward o... - 0 views

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  • This dissertation is the first piece of empirical work I am aware of that demonstrates clearly that a distance learning program can simultaneously (1) provide a significant public good by publishing opencourseware and (2) be revenue positive while doing it.
  • In other words, Justin’s study not only demonstrates that it is possible to publish opencourseware without requesting donations from users or foundations, it goes further and demonstrates that it is possible to make money publishing opencourseware.
  • Ted Curran on 17 Feb 10
     
    an actual study of the economic sustainability of open courseware distance learning efforts
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