Open Thinking is Open
A new online community, Open Thinking, has been launched. What I don't know is why. Is there some reason we cannot use our own spaces to talk about "open technologies or formats in regards to software, publishing, content and practice?" What's the benefit of going over to your place. More...

A radical definition of Open Education
"If Open Education is to mean anything, it has to address the question of social divisions including class, gender and race," writes Graham Attwell. More...

Open Access Jeopardises Academic Publishers, Reed Chief Warns
According to the chief executive of Reed Elsevier, "The rise of open access publishing of scientific research could jeopardise the entire academic publishing industry." But if you ask me, if an industry is threatened by me sharing something I created with other people, then this industry is already on a very shaky foundation and probably doesn't merit special measures needed to prop it up. More...

Open Policy Network
Open Policy Network, May 14, 2014

Creating Commons is launching new Open Policy Network website. More...

The Open Virus
Martin Weller, The Ed Techie, May 13, 2014

Though the spread of the open virus is by no means guaranteed, it seems like a natural progression from one domain to the next. More...

Apple Wants to Open Song Vaults
Apple is pitching to have music companies make available currently unavailable tracks - something like two thirds of their inventory - through iTunes. "What Steve Jobs is saying is, 'We'd be happy to take all this content that is rotting away in warehouses and turn it into a new revenue source for you.'" One of my major criticisms of current online music offerings is the limited selection of materials - if I want to be mainstreamed, I'll listen to AM radio. More...

Open Access: A PLoS for Education
Why do I continually write about open access? Because of things like this: "PubMed was restricted to those institutions that could afford the subscription fee; now PubMed is freely available to all who have Internet access. More...

IMS/SSP Comes So Close...
David Wiley is back to doing cool things with the launch of his Open Learning Support pilot project, which adds discussion board support to half a dozen or so OpenCourseWare courses at MIT. More...

Open Source a new way to Manage Classroom Computing
It's not that new any more, though I suppose to a number of people it will be. In any case, this article is a nice outline of how open source can be used to manage classroom computing. More...