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Open Access Week to take place in October 2015
The International Open Access Week will take place from 19th to 25th of October. More...
Open Education UK update
The Association for Learning technology (ALT) is the UK's leading membership organisation for the use of technology in education.
This blog post is a quick update on the activities of their Special Interest Group (SIG) for Open Education on behalf of the commitee. More...
The ODS Summer Academy encourages teachers to embrace innovation and open learning
Thirty four teachers and heads of schools from all over Europe participated this year in the Open Discovery Space International Summer Academy, held in Mati (Greece) from 12 to 17 July. More...
Open peer review at Collabra: Q&A with UC Press Director Alison Mudditt
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Open peer review at Collabra: Q&A with UC Press Director Alison Mudditt
Richard Poynder, Open and Shut?, 2015/08/14
Richard Poynder looks at an open-access open-review journal called Collabra, launched by the University of California Press earlier this year. Authors have the option of having paper reviews signed and published alongside the paper. More...
An Obstacle to the Ubiquitous Adoption of OER in US Higher Education
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. An Obstacle to the Ubiquitous Adoption of OER in US Higher Education
David Wiley, iterating toward openness, 2015/08/12
I don't want to be the sort of person who always says "I said this first", but I would be remiss in not pointing out that the solution advocated here by David Wiley was the central recommendation, oft-repeated, of my paper on OERs written for OECD in Malmo. More...
The do’s and don’ts of creating OERs
By . Most faculty educators have already started creating their own open educational resources (OER) in the form of assessments, coursework, and presentations. Bringing them online to share with other educators is just the natural next step. More...
Authorities mull reform of outdated open education
By Ashraf Khaled. Egypt’s higher education authorities have said they are studying the development of open education programmes in the nation’s universities after the 25-year-old system drew widespread criticism.
The Supreme Council of Universities, which is in charge of higher education policy, formed a commission of academics to look into problems of open education and ways of upgrading it.
“This committee has compiled a 500-page report about the problems of this type of education and how the system has deviated from its course,” council head Ashraf Hatem said recently. Read more...
Open Data Pôle emploi - Enquête Besoins en Main-d’Œuvre
L'enquête annuelle "Besoins en Main-d'Œuvre" est, depuis plusieurs années, un élément essentiel de connaissance du marché du travail.
Chaque année, Pôle emploi adresse un questionnaire à plus de 1,6 million d’établissements afin de connaître leurs besoins en recrutement par secteur d’activité et par bassin d’emploi.
Cette enquête permet entre autre :
- d’anticiper les difficultés de recrutement;
- d’améliorer l’orientation des demandeurs d’emploi vers des formations ou des métiers en adéquation avec les besoins du marché du travail;
- d’informer les demandeurs d’emploi sur l’évolution de leur marché du travail et les métiers porteurs.
Vous pouvez accéder aux données via une recherche par zone géographique jusqu’au bassin d’emploi, par métier et par secteur d’activité. Voir l'article...
Letter on Open Access
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Letter on Open Access
Various authors, Google Docs, 2015/08/04
Cable Green writes: "Today, a broad coalition of more than 90 organizations representing the education, library, technology, public interest and legal communities released a letter calling on President Obama to open up educational materials created with federal taxpayer funds." More...