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A system to allow staff to easily select the applications they want to use in their courses, manage users and give access to students and externals.

New edition of this valuable open access resource

Info about a new open source academic publishing house looking to be scholarly and multimedia friendly.

Coursera now passing student details to employers (with the students permission - opt in). Allows people to seek work through the courses they have done.

PhD Thesis

"The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project dedicated to showcasing the most interesting and unusual out-of-copyright works available online.  All works eventually fall out of copyright - from classic works of art, music and literature, to abandoned drafts, tentative plans, and overlooked fragments. In doing so they enter the public domain, a vast commons of material that everyone is free to enjoy, share and build upon without restriction.  We believe the public domain is an invaluable and indispensable good, which - like our natural environment and our physical heritage - deserves to be explicitly recognised, protected and appreciated.  The Public Domain Review aims to help its readers to explore this rich terrain - like a small exhibition gallery at the entrance of an immense network of archives and storage rooms that lie beyond. "

Interesting post on why CC-BY is more valuable than CC-BY-NC, in fact why the latter is seriously restrictive in an academic context.

"(NZ) pupils may soon be able to sit school assessments online when they are ready, rather than waiting for the traditional exam period."

Good slides from Terry Anderson on openness in education and some of the disruptions hitting universities.

Open textbook from Tony Bates on integrating technology into teaching - free download in a range of formats

Depressing

"Science has always been based on a fundamental culture of openness.  The scientific community rewards individuals for sharing their discoveries through perpetual attribution, and the community benefits by through the ability to build on discoveries made by individuals.  Furthermore, scientific discoveries are not generally accepted until they have been verified or reproduced independently, which requires open communication."

thoughtful article on the idea that path dependance has led to an academic publishing system that works but is sub-optimal in the new technology environment.

Very well thought out exposition on how the 'openness' concept has been confused and damaged by the MOOC phenomena. Preview of a chapter to be published in Bonk's book MOOC and Open Education around the world.