Canada's three largest funding agencies on Friday released joint guidelines to ensure open-access publication of the research they support. Called the Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications, the guidelines will require all peer-reviewed publicly funded research be made available for free online within 12 months of publication. Read more...
By Steve Perry. Online learning technology has the potential to expand quality education to a growing number of students; however, pairing online learning technology with the same face-to-face method is not enough to ensure success, as many online institutions are coming to find. More...
By Matt Reed. “Free community college” would require major legal and financial changes, as well as some unusually farsighted political leadership. Free textbooks just require a little ingenuity. We can do this. Read more...
As you know, one of the main concerns nowadays is to stimulate ways of learning and teaching through ICT and digital content. Open Educational Resources (OER) play a central role in the transformation of the way people learn and teach nurturing a culture of sharing valuable educational material within the educational world. More...
The OERu platform, which reports access to 217,000 unique monthly visitors from around the world, will now link to the new Open University BOCs and open courses on OpenLearn, the OU’s home of free online learning. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. So, you need to understand language data? Open-source NLP software can help!
zelandiya, Entopix, 2015/02/24
There is almost no end to the sorts of analyses you can do with text. This diagram and article offer a fascinating exploration of the choices you can make, and of the many applications (often open source!) than can be used in text analysis. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. OpenEdX and LTI: Pedagogical scripts and SSO
Stian Håklev, Random Stuff that Matters, 2015/02/23
lthough Learning Technologies Interoperability (LTI) was originally designed for learning management systems, it can also be adapted to MOOCs (especially MOOCs you have to sign in to access)(which aren't really MOOCs, but I digress). More...
By . Research faculty in the Faculties of Land Management and Forestry at the (mythical) University of Western Canada developed over a number of years a range of ‘learning artefacts’, digital graphics, computer models and simulations about watershed management, partly as a consequence of research conducted by faculty, and partly to generate support and funding for further research. More...
By . I am usually very cautious not to use the term ‘paradigm shift’, but I do believe that the term is justified by the implications of open approaches to education, especially for higher education. This post aims to set out why this paradigm shift is slowly taking place. More...
By . Textbooks are an increasing cost to students. Some textbooks cost $200 or more, and in North America a university undergraduate may be required to spend between $800-$1,000 a year on textbooks. An open textbook on the other hand is an openly-licensed, online publication free for downloading for educational or non-commercial use. You are currently reading an open textbook. More...
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