By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Open journals that piggyback on arXiv gather momentum
Elizabeth Gibney, Nature, 2016/01/05
We're beginning to approach the era of post-publication peer review through the use of preprint exchanges such as arXiv and journals that draw from them. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 'A Bit Of A Montessori 2.0': Kahn Academy Opens A Lab School
Eric Westervelt, Education : NPR, 2016/01/05
I confess I don't see the logic of this. The Khan Academy, which defines its core duty as helping provide "a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere," has opened a "new $23,000 a year ($25,000 for grades 6-12) brick-and-mortar Khan Lab School in Silicon Valley." Sure, I can see the business model: give the people who can afford such a thing good progressive "Montessori 2.0" education for their children. More...
On December 8 and 9, 2015, representatives from several regions (Asia, Europe, and North America) met in Berlin, Germany, to discuss a proposal to flip subscription-based journals to open access models. The initiative is being led by the Max Planck Society, the organizer and host of the invitation-only Berlin 12 Open Access Conference. The rationale for the initiative is based on an analysis undertaken by Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL), which found that a flip to open access would be possible at no financial risk, “maybe even at lower overall costs” to the system. More...
The Open Education Europa portal has just launched a contest aiming at collecting and sharing innovative teaching practices taking place in Europe.
Excellence in education requires a constant drive and passion for improvement, and professional development. Sharing is the heart of Education. The Open Education Europa portal is announcing the Open Education Europa Teachers Contest. More...
By Rick Anderson. The movement to make scholarly work more accessible has created major benefits, but mandating open access -- and Creative Commons licensing -- restricts authors’ ability to say how, where and by whom their work will be reused, writes Rick Anderson. Read more...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Amara
Amara, 2015/12/30
I recently uploaded a new video of my panel presentation on agile learning design at OEB (the sound on the first was gibbled, but this came out much better). Not long after I got an email from a friend saying volunteers had completed a set of subtitles for the talk. The site they used was Amara. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Who are the Open Learners? A Comparative Study Profiling non-Formal Users of Open Educational Resources
Robert Farrow, Beatriz de los Arcos, Rebecca Pitt, Martin Weller, The European Journal of Open and Distance Learning, 2015/12/28
With all the fuss about MOOCs over the last few years efforts like iTunes University have been lost in the shuffle. The closed platform didn't exactly make iTunesU feel 'open', but it was and is widely popular. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Guidelines for accessible information
Marcella Turner-Cmuchal, ICT for Information Accessibility in Learning, 2015/12/17
The latest version of the Guidelines is now available. From the website: "The Guidelines for accessible information are an open educational resource (OER) to support the creation of accessible information in general and for learning in particular. More...
By Jack Grove. A long-running stand-off has been resolved as a three-year deal on subscriptions is agreed. More...
Leader européen de l’e-Éducation, OpenClassrooms est une plateforme de cours en ligne. La communauté OpenClassrooms compte aujourd’hui plus de 1 million de membres et ce sont près de 3 millions d’utilisateurs qui étudient chaque mois sur le catalogue de plus de 1000 cours en ligne, dont les principaux sont désormais sous forme de MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses). Voir l'article...
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