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OER Community Topic: How and Why of OER
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- Abstract: With 1,400 courses now available, MIT is delivering on the promise of MIT OpenCourseWare. We have heard from educators and learners around the world that they are benefiting from the materials offered freely and openly on the MIT OCW site. In order to understand how well MIT OCW is fulfilling its mission -- as well as to establish a thorough and continuous feedback process that guarantees its improvement over time -- we have developed a substantial evaluation program. The evaluation is focused on understanding specifics in three areas of user behavior: Access: Who is accessing MIT OCW, what are their profiles (educator, student, self-learner, other), what are their disciplines (or other interests), and where are they located? Use: How do educators and learners use MIT OCW and is MIT OCW designed appropriately to facilitate that use? To what extent and in what ways are MIT course materials adopted or adapted for teaching purposes? Impact: What effects -- positive or negative, intended or unintended -- are being realized through the use of MIT OCW? The evaluation was undertaken in 2005. Data collection employed an integrated "portfolio approach," as a combination of methods helped to achieve both breadth and depth in the evaluation.
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Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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Post-secondary
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- Abstract: Sponsored by the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College, Academic Commons shares these principles with the Center's exploration of liberal arts education: (1) Free exchange: open source technology and the free and open exchange of ideas, intellectual and creative work; (2) Heterogeneity: an understanding of, and sensitivity to, different modes of inquiry and their value for the larger academic enterprise; (3) Rational evaluation: a respect for evaluative processes that are anchored within professional expertise and are based on practices of open and rational deliberation.
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Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Grade Level:
Post-secondary
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- Abstract: This paper discusses the concept of Open Educational Resources (OERs). The discussion then
shift to OER sustainability, a fundamental element essential for the success of OER. Special attention is given to the following as they relate to the OER sustainability: instructional design & presentation; cost of production and maintenance; support; and OER communities of practice as relate to scalability. The paper concludes with recommendations for OERs future research.
Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology 4. 2007
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Social Sciences
- Grade Level:
Post-secondary
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- Abstract: The Bazaar is a community portal for people who want to use, exchange and share Open Source Software and resources to support learning
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Science and Technology
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- Abstract: A group of educators will meet at Foothill College this week to begin studying how to encourage widespread adoption of free online textbooks.
Funded by a $530,000 grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources hopes to ease the burden on students who routinely pay $150 for clunky, hard-bound books, according to Judy Baker, dean of Foothill Global Access, an online-learning program.
The majority of grant money will go to the consortium's new Open Textbook Project, a collaboration with other schools and educational groups already using Web-based books to study the long-term feasibility of switching to online books, she said.
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Post-secondary
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- Abstract: Brewster Kahle is on a mission. He wants the whole planet to have access to human knowledge. All human knowledge. And he's striving to make that possible--one byte at a time.
Ten years ago, Kahle founded the nonprofit Internet Archive, with the goal of preserving the hitherto ephemeral pleasures of the Net for posterity. But, unsatisfied with limiting himself to the saving of Web sites, Kahle decided to broaden his scope and include existing collections of books, television programs, movies and music in the archive's massive digital repository.
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Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
Primary, Secondary, Post-secondary
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- Abstract: The CALIBRATE (Calibrating eLearning in Schools) project (October 2005 – March 2008) brings together eight Ministries of Education, (including six MoEs from new member states), to carry out a multi-level project designed to support the collaborative use and exchange of learning resources in schools.
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Science and Technology
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- Abstract: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today (May 7, 2009) launched an initiative to make California the first state in the nation to offer schools free, open-source digital textbooks for high school students. The Governor directed his Secretary of Education Glen Thomas to ensure these resources are available for use in high school math and science classes by fall 2009, a critical first step in helping ensure digital textbooks are widely available to all California students.
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- Abstract: The Cape Town Open Education Declaration arises from a small but lively meeting convened in Cape Town in September 2007. The aim of this meeting was to accelerate efforts to promote open resources, technology and teaching practices in education.
The first concrete outcome of this meeting is the Cape Town Open Education Declaration. It is at once a statement of principle, a statement of strategy and a statement of commitment. It meant to spark dialogue, to inspire action and to help the open education movement grow.
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- Abstract: Welcome to the website for the new CoSN K-12 Open Technologies Leadership Initiative.
The goal of this Web site is to help educators and technologists with the planning, evaluation, decision-making, and implementation processes associated with adopting Open Technologies in K-12.
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Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Grade Level:
Primary, Secondary
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- Abstract: An article outlining some of the concerns and conflicts between Creative Commons and the Australian Copyright Owners Community, and discusses other publications regarding this conflict. The article is written by Delia Browne, an iSummit Scholar and the National Copyright Directory, Australian Schools and TAFEs.
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- Abstract: This paper addresses some of the licensing issues raised by creating and licensing Open Educational Resources. Flexibility and ease in accessing educational resources, remixing and embedding them in other, more culturally specific materials, is central to the OER movement. Flexibility can only achieved through a combination of resource design and licensing models. The most popular licensing model for OER content is the Creative Commons suite of licenses and most OER providers either use licenses taken from the Creative Commons suite or have developed a license closely modeled on a CC original but adapted to suit their needs, for example the Creative Archive in the UK.
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Science and Technology
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- Abstract: My name is Jennifer Maddrell. I am a graduate student at Indiana University studying in the Instructional Systems Technology department. I am taking the program "at a distance" so I can practice what I will one day preach.
This site is my working journal and personal learning environment related to the loosely joined topics of instructional design, technology and online education.
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- Abstract: On January 23-24, 2006, Intelligent Television hosts the Economics of Open Content symposium at MIT to bring together representatives from media industries, cultural and educational institutions, and legal and business minds to discuss how to make open content happen better and faster.
Topics include Collaboration and the Marketplace, New Models of Creative Production in the Digital Age, Keynote Address: Openness as an Ethos, The Wealth of Networks, The Economics of Knowledge as a Public Good, The Economics of Open Courseware, The Economics of Open Text, Convergence Culture: Consumer Participation and the Economics of Mass Media, The Economics of the Music Industry, If Only We Knew Yesterday What We Know Today, The Economics of Open Archives, Museums, and Libraries, The Economics of the Public Domain, The Economics of Film and Television, The New Economics of Gaming, Everything is Miscellaneous, Business Interests in Open Content, Next Steps: Cooperation Across Institutions and Industries
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Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Grade Level:
Post-secondary
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- Abstract: Scott Leslie is an educational technology researcher and emerging technology analyst. He currently works as the Manager of the BCcampus Learning Resources Centre, a multi-disciplinary 'open content' repository. In addition, he researches course management systems, repository and eportfolio software with Dr. Bruce Landon as part of the Western Cooperative on Educational Telecommunications' (WCET) Edutools.info team.
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- Abstract: Martha Kanter, chancellor of the Foothill-De Anza Community College District and a nationally known champion of open educational resources, has been nominated by President Obama this month to be under secretary of education, the top postsecondary job at the U.S. Department of Education.
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Humanities, Mathematics and Statistics, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Grade Level:
Post-secondary
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- Abstract: This year’s theme is "Next-Gen IT: New Leaders, New Students, New Directions, and Expectations." Whether your focus is administrative services, information resources, teaching and learning, technology infrastructure, or management, you can benefit from attending the Fourth Annual EDUCAUSE Western Regional Conference.
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Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Abstract: elearningpost is an intelligent digest of daily links to articles and news stories about Corporate Learning, Community Building, Instructional Design, Knowledge Management, Personalization and more. Besides the daily links, elearningpost brings out feature articles and related special reports on the above topics. elearningpost's mission is to provide quality e-learning content that attracts a diverse and emerging audience.
- Subject:
Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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