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Being Open - grant applications in the open from Jim Groom.

What is Open in 2013?

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.

"OLCOS, the Open eLearning Content Observatory Services project (1/2006-12/2007) is co-funded under the European Union's eLearning Programme and aims at building an (online) information and observation centre for promoting the concept, production and usage of open educational resources, in particular, open digital educational content (ODEC) in Europe."

"open source, open hardware, open community" (via @malckiwi)

Open course on Open Badges (Mozilla) and assessment

"How do we get from free and open courseware (and informal learning on sites like YouTube) to a free (or extremely affordable) open-access university?...The future of learning is open--and it's in your hands."

Some of the assumptions and approaches to open science.

Excellent resource of Open materials and information from Oxford Uni with OER, open archives, podcasts, images, etc.

Jisc resources for Open Access

"(Iceland) wants to take a number of government departments open source. According to project leader Tryggvi Björgvinsson, the migration project will involve the three biggest public institutions in Iceland: all of the ministries, the city of Reykjavik and the National Hospital. "These are setting a good migration example", he says."

There's open and there's mot quite so open - an age of openwashing is upon us.

Interview with Ray Henderson and Lou Pugliese about Blackboard buying its way into open source.

Reflecting on Massive OPEN Online Courses and Massive 'Open' ONLINE Courses.

"ClearBits provides hosting and distribution for open licensed media. We distribute high quality, open-licensed (Creative Commons) digital media, datasets, and artwork for Content Creators. We host creative content in its entirety, ensure fast, reliable downloads, and enable users to directly sponsor Content Creators and their work."

David Wiley on why the Apple iBooks announcement is great for open textbooks - although not in the way that big publishers want or have yet perceived.

"Much has been written about wikis' reliability and use in the classroom. This research bulletin addresses the negative impacts on institutional welfare that can arise from participating in and supporting wikis. The open nature of the platform, which is fundamental to wiki operation and success, enables these negative consequences. A finite user base that can be determined a priori (e.g., a course roster) minimizes the security implications, hence our discussion in this bulletin primarily concerns open or public wikis that accept contributions from a broad and unknown set of Internet users."

Fabiana Kubke's blog including stuff on open access and open science.

Open textbooks - the new wave after Moocs?