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articles - Siyavula to bring free and open resources to education
Siyavula is an ambitious project that aims to transform education in South Africa by providing free, open and curriculum-aligned educational resources. Siyavula means ‘we are opening’ in Nguni and is an apt description of the initiative ...

Importance in open educational resources OER of Chaos Theory in SEO
A hypothetical example of applying this to open educational resources: There are 20 webpages on hypothetical molecule OERX. Professor Smith, who is the world expert on OERX, comments in his blog about one of those 20 webpages, ...

Call for papers… Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are free to those licensed to use them. Available online from the European Commission’s e-learning portal eLearningEuropa, OERs offer numerous advantages and ...

Open High School of Utah
Congratulations to David Wiley and my other colleagues here at Utah State University on getting approval to start a new virtual high school, the Open High School of Utah, which will solely employ openly licensed educational resources. ...

Doing OER and OA: More Questions than Answers
That said, I do think quite a bit about the broader set of activities around open educational resources (OER), and through writing this post I am thinking in a more disciplined way about OA. Two of the things that I am passionate about ...

Jorum to move to open access
It was announced today that Jorum, the UK national repository for learning and teaching materials funded by JISC, is to offer open educational resources. This will make it easier for lecturers and teaching staff to share and re-use each ...

Mideast Youth wins a Berkman Award for Internet Innovation
This free, open-source platform is a building block towards a system of open educational resources. John Breen was recognized with a Berkman Award for creating FreeRice.com. FreeRice asks site users to answer multiple-choice vocabulary ...

Introduction to Open Educational Resources
"A self-paced tutorial about open educational resources as alternatives to textbooks for college teachers. Visitors are invited to actively participate by posting Activity Reflection entries to the course Discussion area. ...

Cute Kitten Syndrome: Open Educational Resources
I was at CNIE earlier this week and participated on this panel discussingopen educational resources (OERs). Educators are periodically afflicted with a psychological condition called "Cute Kitten Syndrome". ...

CMC3 Resolution Supports CCCOER
Last Saturday May 10, 2008 the California Mathematics Council Community Colleges (CMC3) unanimously passed the following resolution: Resolution on Community Colleges Consortium for Open Educational Resources Whereas the price of higher ...

Going Somewhere Uncomfortable
We covered topics that ranged from the American education crisis, Open Education Resources, the upcoming election, the ongoing debate over journalism as we knew it versus the wisdom of the crowds, how meaning can migrate across media, ...

Cute Kitten Syndrome: Open Educational Resources
George Siemens raises some worthwhile questions about open educational resources (OERs). He's right, we have discussed the concept over the years. For me, as for him, it is the ethical dimension of 'denying people access to education' ...

CCCOER Presentation at Sloan Conference
Dr. Judy Baker presented “Open Content for Open Minds: Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources” at the Sloan-C 2008 International Symposium on Thursday, May 9th in Carefree, Arizona. The presentation slideshow is ...

Laura Dewis
Laura works on the OpenLearn website, which gives free access to open educational resources from The Open University. She has responsibility for online communications, events management, media relations and partnership liaison. ...

Community College Open Textbook Project
The Community College Open Textbook Project is featured in the news: Online Texts for Community Colleges in the April 29th issue of Inside Higher Ed Community College Open-Textbook Project Gets Under Way in the April 29th issue of Wired.

Call for Papers: Open Educational Resources
With this issue, the eLearning Papers wants to support the establishment of a new kind of ecology of Technology Enhanced Learning that focuses on Open Educational Resources...

The Cape Town Open Education Declaration & midwifery education
The Declaration supports the principle of free and open access for all to education resources. The underpinning philosophy is that open access will support educators and learners to "create, shape and evolve knowledge together, ...

Open Textbook Article in Palo Alto Weekly
An article about open textbooks was published recently in the Palo Alto Weekly Online: ‘Bookless’ textbook study launched at Foothill.

Note Verbale: Open education empowers
... more than 150 organizations all over the world urges educators and learners participation in the open education movement, and the promotion of open education resources and open education policies (see www.capetowndeclaration.org). ...

eIFL.net on Open Access, Open Education, and Creative Commons
The goal of the Open Education movement is to create a world where each and every person on earth can access and contribute to the sum of all human knowledge. This goal can be reached by developing a vast pool of educational resources ...

Project Status: Moodle Open Mod for Open Educational Resources
In a nutshell: the primary goal of the mod is to allow individual resources OR activities within a Moodle course to be “open” to either non-authenticated visitors or a custom role called “Open User”. There are a number of secondary ...

Registration now open for “Basics of Archives” Workshop
Don’t let your county and institutions down. Please attend. Attending this offering just might help make a larger goal of the BCHRC happen: education and professional training nearer to home base.

Sharing eLearning Content
Sharing eLearning Content – A Synthesis and Commentary. “It is a holy grail of eLearning that content, be it raw media assets, information or learning objects, learning activities, or learning designs, should be made once and used in ...

Developing a Culture of Sharing and Receiving: Open Educational ...
How do we educate all stakeholders about open educational resources (software, content, standards, publishing) and why they are an important part of our system's future? How do we make it easy to share learning materials, ...

Open Textbooks in the News
The Chronicle. http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/2947/community-college-open-textbook-project-gets-underway Online Texts for Community College Students. Inside Higher Ed. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/04/29/textbooks ...

16 ClipArt Resources
This Free Vector Clipart, Ornaments and Icons section is finally open! Currently they offer over 500 free vector images! You are allowed to use them, but not allowed to distribute or sell them in any way. ...

Wrapping up the course with a videoconference
EduGluSWAN FlashMeeting I hope that during last two weeks you have had some time to look at other participants blogs and reflect about the course. Many of you have posted feedback posts in your blog and there is also a wiki page with ...

Creating open educational resources
Are you interested in creating your own open educational resources? This unit will help you to write a learning unit and provide you with links to various resources for open-learning materials. You will learn about the different ...

CCCOER Presentation at Sloan Conference
Dr. Judy Baker will present “Open Content for Open Minds: Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources” at the Sloan-C 2008 Symposium on Thursday, May 9th in Carefree, Arizona.

Work from Home Web Interface Designer/Developer
We are pioneers in collaborative content creation tools and "OER"- Open Educational Resources. We’re seeking an experienced web application interface designer and front-end developer to help evolve and improve the usability and ...

New Scuba Gear: NAUI Scuba Diver Education System in Spanish - $51.95
Includes everything needed for the Open Water Scuba Diver course: textbook workbook NAUI pen and pencil student record folder guide to NAUI membership and decals all packed in a convenient carrying album; INCLUDES: ...

05/15/2008 - Connexions wins $2M from Hewlett Foundation
Founded in 1999 as one of the first Open Educational Resources (OER) on the World Wide Web, Connexions has long pioneered digital education. Connexions is a platform and repository for OER that lets people create, share, modify and vet ...

Open Access Directory
The aims of the Open Access movement, the Open Software movement, and the Open Educational Resources movement overlap, with each movement influencing the others. This new Open Access Directory wiki should be a valuable asset for ...

Open Education
...make Open and Collaborative Resources (OCRs) a firm and sustainable reality in the South African education system and, in the process, make a massive contribution to improving the current crisis (just one short article but many ...

Cute Kitten Syndrome: Open Educational Resources
In fact, in 2003, a group of us started a community on open educational resources based on a few articles I had posted online (Free and Open Source - Part 1 and Part 2 and Why we should share learning resources) and Stephen Downes’ ...

Open education empowers
... in providing access to learning and knowledge and developing a wide range of educational resources in cyberspace that are free and open for everyone to use outside of the traditional models. It is referred to as ‘open education’. ...

Open Educational Resources
Last week, UNESCO released a report (authored by Susan D’Antoni) on Open Educational Resources: The way forward (.pdf). The wiki version is here. While I find the use of the term “knowledge” is more in line with how I would define ...

Finishing the assignments
I went back to http://lemill.net/community/anicapetkoska , and practised the option to create learning resources, by adding media, multiple choice questions and open ended questions. I posted an assignment I have given to my k-10 ...

California Open Source Textbook Project
I was listening to Wikinomics this past week, while cross-crossing WA, and stumbled upon the California Open Source Textbook Project. I like their bold purpose statement: COSTP benefits will be 1) the complete elimination of the current ...

Giving Knowledge for Free
However, more and more institutions and individuals are sharing their digital learning resources over the Internet, openly and for free, as Open Educational Resources (OER). This study, building on previous OECD work on e-learning, ...

Social Networking for Justice - Flat worlds, ‘access’ and Online ...
While initiatives like MIT Opencourseware and OER Commons (open educational resources) give people free access to wonderful resources for teaching and learning two questions should be asked: whom are they actually open to - or rather ...

New OER Blog - Changes Next Exit
A member of the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources as elearning director at the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, Cable Green recently launched a new blog about open educational ...

Roundup from elearningeuropa.info newsletter April 2008
The eLearning Papers looks for articles on Open Educational Resources (OER) and their use in education at all levels, taking into account the aspects of global development and Web 2.0. The deadline for article submission is 30 June 2008 ...

Making the case for “Fully Open” Content
Here’s the question - I work on a project that helps share educational resources. We currently support two licenses, a Creative Commons license and a regional consortia license called the “BC Commons” which facilitates sharing amongst ...

The Open High School of Utah
OHSU will be a completely online school (or “virtual school” as they are sometimes called) that will use open educational resources exclusively. Through partnerships we are building we hope to make the OHSU an “early college high school ...

Community College Open Textbook Project
The Community College Open Textbook Project is featured in an article titled Online Texts for Community Colleges in the April 29th issue of Inside Higher Ed.

RE: Texas AT Regional Conference- Handout Reminder
Let’s face reality, yours is a especially tough crowd because educational resources are notoriously overstressed and overwhelmed. Following the path of least resistance is apparently irresistible until it is no longer viable. ...

OER Commons - Open Educational Resources
Open Education Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are freely available online for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student, or self-learner. Examples of OER include: full courses, course modules, ...

Doing OA
In this post Amee talks about Open Educational Resources less as things and more as processes. This is a powerful and engaging direction, because it connects creation, use, and re-creation in a cycle, poking at some of the underlying ...

links for 2008-05-14
The Open University (Knowledge Media Institute): Open Sensemaking Communities Project a concept we are using to investigate the next step after publishing Open Educational Resources, namely, designing for sensemaking: embedding OERs in ...

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Open educational resources - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term "open educational resources" was first adopted at ... Open Educational Resources and Practices - a slide show with audio and article that explores ...

Open Educational Resources
Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, ... of the movement toward Open Educational Resources is the simple and powerful ...

Open Educational Resources - knowledge, collaboration, information ...
... with open educational resources for agriculture ... OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES ... for articles on Open Educational Resources (OER) and their use ...

OER Commons
Open Educational Resources offer new ways to engage with learning content. ... Open Educational Resources Oral History Phylogenetics Teaching Resource ...

Internet Archive: Open Educational Resources
Welcome to the Archive's library of Open Educational Resources and university lectures. ... This library of open educational resources features 187 courses ...

Open Educational Resources ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes
The term "open educational resources" was first adopted at ... Open educational ... Open Educational Resources and Practices - a slide show with audio and ...

UNESCO Virtual University
... all three may be grouped together under the term Open Educational Resources (OER) ... to the open provision of educational resources, enabled by ...

Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) - Open ...
... scope of initiatives regarding "open educational resources" (OER) in terms of ... Open Educational Resources: On the Sustainability of OER initiatives, by ...

Models for Sustainable Open Educational Resources ~ Stephen's Web ~ by ...
... as Models for Sustainable Open Educational Resources in 3 29-44 February 27, 2007. ... The importance of open educational resources (OERs) has been widely ...

Open Educational Resources
THE EMERGENCE OF OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES ... of Open Educational Resources and the challenges it poses for higher education. ...

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... anticipated by the astronomical and educational communities as a compelling astronomical ... Bangalore, India. Microsoft Research collaborates openly with colleges and universities worldwide ...> Casserly, Director of the Open Educational Resources Initiative, Hewlett Foundation. Johns ... and Chief Executive Officer, WGBH Educational Foundation. Griffith Observatory and Space ...

WorldWide Telescope Brings Space Exploration to Earth (Forwarded)

...eagerly anticipated by the astronomical and educational communities as a compelling astronomical resource...and Bangalore, India. Microsoft Research collaborates openly with colleges and universities worldwide ... Casserly, Director of the Open Educational Resources Initiative, Hewlett Foundation. Johns ... and Chief Executive Officer, WGBH Educational Foundation. Griffith Observatory and Space ...

Ancestry Research found in Modern Education Tools

...-genealogy.com/> Family Genealogy & History Internet Education Directory Examples: Top Search Engines and ...languages on iTunes, there is Open Education Resources (OER) Index. This site ...-genealogy.com/bookspublicationsgenealogical.htm under Education Publications & Online Books, http://www....both editions] Family Genealogy & History Internet Education Directory http://www.academic-genealogy....

Ancestry Research found in Modern Education Tools