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Ted Curran

http://opencontent.org/definition/ - 0 views

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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"
Ted Curran

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
Ted Curran

Free Online Course Materials | Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology |... - 0 views

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  • Ted Curran on 09 Aug 11
     
    Harvard Health Sciences Open CourseWare
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Google Plus RSS Feeds - 0 views

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rss

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  • Ted Curran on 08 Aug 11
     
    This is an app that helps you produce an RSS feed from a Google+ user's profile. 
Ted Curran

Simple private real-time sharing and collaboration by drop.io - 0 views

drop.io

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  • Ted Curran on 18 Feb 10
     
    online file sharing, podcasting, and collaboration
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Lazyfeed - 0 views

www.lazyfeed.com

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  • Ted Curran on 19 Feb 10
     
    This is an RSS feed reader for people who don't know what an "RSS Feed" is. Sadly-- THIS is what the world needs.
Ted Curran

The Transformative Potential of Open Educational Resources (OER) (SPARC) - 0 views

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  • David Wiley, also a leader of the Cape Town Declaration; Chief Openness Officer for Flat World Knowledge, a new approach to college textbooks offering rigorously reviewed textbooks online free of cost to students (http://www.flatworldknowledge.com); and Associate Professor of Instructional Psychology & Technology at Brigham Young University.
Ted Curran

The Cape Town Open Education Declaration - 0 views

www.capetowndeclaration.org/read-the-declaration

shared by Ted Curran on 12 Feb 10 - Cached
  • 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.
Ted Curran

Health Education Assets Library - Home - 0 views

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education health resources science nursing assets reference teaching

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  • Ted Curran on 24 Mar 11
     
    An Open Health Sciences repository
Ted Curran

Top 6 Teacher Tasks - What Teachers Do - Top Teacher Tasks - 0 views

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lecture capture

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  • Ted Curran on 11 Mar 11
     
    These are the top 6 "teacher tasks" that faculty employ. What percentage of these tasks do we spend our time on, and how many of those tasks could be automated?
Ted Curran

AcademicCopyrightInformation - Keck qwiki wiki @USC - 0 views

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  • Ted Curran on 23 Mar 11
     
    Academic Copyright Information Disclaimer: The purpose of this wiki webpage is to provide links to information about copyright and "fair use" to help faculty and students make informed decisions about copyright issues. Nothing on this page is intended to serve as legal advice. If you have legal questions about copyright, you should consult a lawyer or the general counsel's office in your institution. Nothing on this page should be construed as representing the policy or opinion of the University of Southern California. Please send comments to RayMosteller Related: CopyrightInformation - AlternativeCopyrightOptions - UscCopyrightInformation - EducationalResources Copyright and Fair Use Case Law Academic Publishers vs. Georgia State University - Lawsuit filed April 15, 2008 Basic Books, Inc. v. Kinko's Graphics Corp. - 758 F.Supp. 1522 (S.D.N.Y. 1991) Princeton University Press v. Michigan Document Services, INC. - No. 94-1778 6th Cir. 1996 decision vacated Key Court Case Summaries on Fair Use Columbia University Copyright Advisory Office - Columbia University Libraries / Information Services Fair Use Checklist Copyright Scenarios Court Case Summaries - Regarding Fair Use Fair Use Resources Cornell University Copyright Information Center Cornell Copyright Policies, Guidance, and Policy Interpretations Cornell Electronic Course Content Copyright Guidelines - Press release Cornell Electronic Course Content Copyright Guidelines - (PDF) Course Reserves Copyright Guidelines - (PDF) Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States Copyright Resources Cornell Copyright Decision Tree - (PDF) Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI) Copyright Management Center Fair-Use Issues Fair-Use: Overview and Meaning for Higher Education Fair-Use Guidelines Key Court Case Summaries on Fair Use Teach Act and Distance Learning North Carolina State University Intellectual Property Student Privacy Law (FERPA) Penn State Uni
Ted Curran

To Share or Not to Share: Is That the Question? (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

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shared by Ted Curran on 11 Mar 11 - Cached
  • 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.
Ted Curran

First look: Office 365 beta shows promise but lacks polish | Cloud Computing - InfoWorld - 0 views

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  • From what we've seen of the Office 365 beta, it still has a long way to go before it can be considered a true turnkey solution for business.
  • The most attractive tiers bundle a full license to Office Professional Plus 2010 for each user, which is arguably Microsoft's greatest advantage over online-only competitors such as Google Docs. You can save a little money if you already have your own Office licenses or if you plan to conduct all your document management in the Office Web Apps -- but we think the latter is unlikely.
  • [ Also on InfoWorld: Dueling demos of Microsoft Office 365 and Google Cloud Connect bring the two titans' larger-than-life struggle into sharp relief. See "Microsoft and Google launch new assaults on the cloud." ]
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  • Office 365 users have immediate access to email, calendar, contacts, and chat via Outlook Web Access, and access to SharePoint sites via Web browser. For rich client access, they can download and install the Microsoft Online Services Connector, Lync client, and Office 2010 Professional Plus suite directly from the portal home page (above). The admin main page (below) is the first stop for managing Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Lync Online, and their users. 
Ted Curran

Previewing Microsoft's Office 365 | Microsoft - CNET News - 0 views

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microsoft office technology

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  • Lync's planned client for Windows Phone 7 and the iPhone.
    • Ted Curran
      Ted Curran on 10 Mar 11
       
      No Android, and not as ubiquitous as GTalk for Apps (which runs on ALL platforms).
  • It's also one of the places where Office 365 shows its strengths, since you can get into a shared group of documents and very quickly give them a read and an edit in the same place without leaving the page to go off to some other property
  • This is what a cohesive Web office experience should feel like, though like we mentioned earlier, it still feels like its on its own island instead of being more tightly knit with the Office 365 start page, and Outlook client.
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  • While really impressive, there are still some questions over Microsoft's vision of making Office 365 less of a jump-off point for its software and more of a one-stop solution for getting things done from any computer, anywhere.
  • it's worth looking at Office 365 for what it is, which is Microsoft continuing to move some of the very complicated pieces of its Office software ecosystem into the cloud--in part to make it easier for businesses large and small to get going. The Office software itself is a separate part of the equation--one that's well on its way in that direction.
  • Notably absent from Office 365's overall interface is Microsoft's suite of Office Web Apps, which is where many of those comparisons to Google Docs have centered
  • The first thing we should say up front is that Google Apps this is not.
  • The good news is that in our brief testing, everything worked as advertised. The bad news is that you can't get it right now, and it's still a long ways off from something that lets you every feature out of the Office ecosystem without installing software.
  • If you actually want to create something, there's still a reliance on having to have the Office software, or go off to the Office Web apps site itself, where users can save to their SharePoint.
  • The net result of all of this is that Office 365 is not yet quite the true jump to a cohesive set of all of Microsoft's services, gone online and tied together in a way where you can hop from task to task between different 365 components.
  • There is still an incredible reliance on the software itself, which is bound to change down the road, but for now makes basic workflows like creating a document and getting feedback from team members a hybrid experience, or one that involves juggling products.
  • In our preview with it, the Web client of Outlook was fast loading and had a few nice tricks up its sleeve, like letting you open up Office attachments in a pop-up Window--something that's quite useful if you're on a public computer that does not have Office installed.
  • Lync is Microsoft's an instant messaging system with presence; an audio and video conferencing tool; and a voice call service. By design this is something that users install and run locally,
  • How Lync translates to the Web experience is that users can get a slightly less capable version of it inside a browser window--all without having to install the software client
Ted Curran

Wanna Work Together? - Creative Commons - 0 views

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  • Ted Curran on 18 Mar 11
     
    This video is a great succinct explanation of the difference between Copyright and Creative Commons. 
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AlternativeCopyrightOptions - Keck qwiki wiki @USC - 0 views

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keck alternativecopyrightoptions qwiki

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  • Ted Curran on 23 Mar 11
     
    Lists and Comparison of Licenses Comparison of free software licences - on Wikipedia Free Software Foundation (FSF) List of Licenses Free Software Foundation (FSF) approved software licences - On Wikipedia GNU List of Various Licenses and Comments about Them - see GNU Project below Alternative Licenses Apache Software Foundation Licenses - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Foundation On Wikipedia Creative Commons License - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons On Wikipedia Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Free_Software_Guidelines On Wikipedia Free Software Foundation (FSF) - On Wikipedia GNU Project Licences GNU Project - On Wikipedia GNU licenses GNU General Public License (GPL) - On Wikipedia GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) - On Wikipedia GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) - On Wikipedia GNU Free Documentation License (FDL) - On Wikipedia "The rule made by the owners of proprietary software was, 'If you share with your neighbor, you are a pirate. If you want any changes, beg us to make them.'" - by Richard Stallman, originally published in the book "Open Sources". See The GNU Project None: AlternativeCopyrightOptions (last edited 2011-03-23 14:16:34 by RayMosteller)
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ClassroomCaptureTechnology - Keck qwiki wiki @USC - 0 views

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classroomcapturetechnology

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  • Ted Curran on 23 Mar 11
     
    Classroom Capture Technology by RayMosteller - EducationalResources Webcasting and Podcasting Camtasia Relay - Lecture capture and presentation by TechSmith Camtasia Relay Pricing - One time licensing fee Echo 360 - Platform for campus-wide lecture capture, bought by Blackboard Kaltura - Open-source online video platform Kaltura community Mediasite - Global leader for enterprise webcasting and knowledge management Smart Encode - Smart PiP Encoder (used by DEN at USC) Tegrity - Automatically capturing, storing and indexing every class on campus, bought by McGraw-Hill Education Video Capture Software WM Recorder, Capture, Converter - The Ultimate Toolkit to Download, Capture and Convert ANY Streaming Video SDP Downloader - Download mms stream as wmv file WebVideoCap v1.33 - Capture Flash video and RTSP/MMS streams by Nir Sofer Freemake Video Downloader - Download videos from YouTube, Facebook, MTV, other sites in HD, 4K, MP4, FLV, 3GP Video Conversion Software AMV Video Converter - Converts avi, mpeg, mpg, wmv, rm, mov, qt Freemake Video Converter - Convert video between formats, rip DVD, convert to devices, burn DVD, cut, join, rotate, and upload video, photos, MP3 Video Player Software Any FLV Player - play FLV files (MPEG-4 encoded video files for Flash) on the internet Applian FLV Player GOM Media Player - includes XviD, DivX, FLV1, AC3, OGG, MP4, H263 Related: WebTwoTechnologies LearningManagementSystems - OnlineCollaborationTools - FacultyBlackboardCommittee
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Educational Vodcasting - 0 views

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  • Ted Curran on 14 Mar 11
     
    Sams and Bergmann, pioneers of the "Flipped" classroom. 
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10 reasons why Microsoft Office 365 rocks | TechRepublic - 0 views

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  • IE 7/8, Firefox 3, or Safari 3.1.2 and through mobile devices including Windows Mobile 6.5.x, Windows Phone 7, Apple iPhone 2.0 and above, and Nokia E and N series.
    • Ted Curran
      Ted Curran on 10 Mar 11
       
      So SharePoint online doesn't work with Android (AKA "the most popular smartphone OS on earth")? Odd choice.
  • the most popular Web browsers. There is a Light version that supports older and alternative browsers.
    • Ted Curran
      Ted Curran on 10 Mar 11
       
      I'm interested to know how they define "the most popular web browsers". On our system, that means "IE", while Firefox, Safari, and Chrome fall into the "alternative browsers" category. 
  • Also supported is PowerPoint broadcasting, which lets you broadcast your slide shows across the Internet even to people who don’t have PowerPoint.
    • Ted Curran
      Ted Curran on 10 Mar 11
       
      does this require you to be online while you're "broadcasting"?
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  • With the Lync 2010 client software
    • Ted Curran
      Ted Curran on 10 Mar 11
       
      How is this considered "cloud-based" if it requires desktop software to work? "Cloud" means "web-based" or "not dependent on desktop software". Confounding.
  • using the Lync client
    • Ted Curran
      Ted Curran on 10 Mar 11
       
      again-- client, not web. What happens if you don't have the client?
  • Lync Online directly over the Internet (without having to be on the corporate network via VPN or RAS)
    • Ted Curran
      Ted Curran on 10 Mar 11
       
      does this mean "connect to Lync Online VIA THE CLIENT or THROUGH A BROWSER"?
  • Opera Mobile 8.65
    • Ted Curran
      Ted Curran on 10 Mar 11
       
      So Android users would have to install Opera Mobile?
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