The mission of OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe) is to promote open scholarship and substantially improve the discoverability and reusability of research publications and data. The initiative brings together professionals from research libraries, open scholarship organisations, national e-Infrastructure and data experts, IT and legal researchers. More...

The Open Education Working Group has published the video and the notes of the call held on 4 June about the theme “Open Data as Open Educational Resources”. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Open teaching and learning
Jenny Mackness, Learning, Open teaching, 2015/07/27

It can be more difficult to teach in an open environment. Janny Mackness observes, "being ‘in the open’ raises security alarm bells for some tutors. What if their students post the less than perfect (in their eyes) videos they have made on Facebook. More...

By Sarah Wild. South African universities and government agencies have banded together against international academic publisher Elsevier’s new hosting and sharing regime, which they argue “curtails scientific progress and places unnecessary constraints on delivering the benefits of research back to the public”. More...

Il y a un mois, Pôle emploi lançait son premier challenge sur la mobilité des demandeurs d’emploi. Au total, ce sont 20 équipes qui ont déposé leur dossier et la sélection des 6 dossiers finalistes sera bientôt annoncée !
Mais au fait, pourquoi Pôle emploi se lance t-il dans les challenges ? Rencontre avec Carole Leclerc, directrice adjointe de l’Innovation  et de la RSE à Pôle emploi. Voir l'article...