Schrodinger’s OER
David Wiley, iterating toward openness, 2018/03/16
David Wiley responds to my criticisms of his arguments against the CARE Framework. More...
21 mars 2018
21 mars 2018
Toward a Sustainable OER Ecosystem: The Case for OER Stewardship
Toward a Sustainable OER Ecosystem: The Case for OER Stewardship
Lisa Petrides, Douglas Levin, C. Edward Watson, The CARE Framework, 2018/03/12
"The scarcity of affordable, high-quality resources in specific subjects and for select populations has too often been presented as a fait accompli," write the authors. More...
19 mars 2018
Encouraging Open Code in Public Procurement Policies
Encouraging Open Code in Public Procurement Policies
Insofar as as many educational institutions are publicly funded, is there a good argument for requiring that they purchase open source code instead of expensive proprietary products (read Microsoft and Adobe)? There's an argument to be made, and this article makes it. More...
19 mars 2018
Open science in the EU – Will the astroturfers take over?
By Pål Magnus Lykkja and Jan Petter Myklebust. European Commission (EC) President Jean-Claude Juncker’s transfer of heavyweight Robert-Jan Smits, the energetic outgoing director general of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, to the European Political Strategy Centre, an EC think-tank, as an ‘open access envoy’ has raised the prospect of added momentum being given to the commission’s plans for establishing a platform for open access by 2020. More...18 mars 2018
Open Food Facts - France
Open Food Facts est une base de données sur les produits alimentaires faite par tout le monde, pour tout le monde.Elle vous permet de faire des choix plus informés, et comme les données sont ouvertes (open data), tout le monde peut les utiliser pour tout usage.
Open Food Facts est un projet citoyen à but non lucratif créé par des milliers de volontaires à travers le monde. Vous pouvez commencer à contribuer en ajoutant un produit de votre cuisine, et nous avons plein de projets enthousiasmants auxquels vous pouvez participer de beaucoup de façons différentes. Plus...
16 mars 2018
Open access monographs in the REF
At a conference last week, I spoke of the intent to extend the open access (OA) requirements in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) to include long-form scholarly works and monographs in 2027. More...
16 mars 2018
OpenSocial and the OpenSocial Foundation: Moves to W3C
OpenSocial and the OpenSocial Foundation: Moves to W3C
Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus, 2015/01/01
The Open Social Foundation is moving standards work to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). There will be two groups, as described by Brian Kelly:
- The Social Web Working Group, which is defining technical standards and APIs to facilitate access to social functionality.
- The Social Interest Group, which is coordinating development of social use cases, and formulating a broad strategy to enable social business and federation.
Kelly describes one case of interest, cross-platform commenting on (for example) photo uploads. More...
16 mars 2018
Open ends?
Open ends?
Brian Lamb, Abject, 2015/04/08
I answer this in the affirmative: "Would the cause of open be better served if we go further in this direction, and stop talking about 'open' as a goal and instead focus on using it as a tactic to support allies who care about authentic, engaged, accessible, sustainable, and relevant public education?" In Sausalito last week one person said that people were convinced to adopt OERs only when pointed out that they help the students learn. More...
16 mars 2018
McGraw-Hill, Microsoft Embrace Open Learning
McGraw-Hill, Microsoft Embrace Open Learning
D. Frank Smith, EdTech, 2015/04/13
According to the McGraw-Hill press release, educators will be able to build what they call "compound learning objects" using Microsoft Office and syndicate them using the McGraw-Hill platform. More...
16 mars 2018
Open Web Presentation for BC Campus
Open Web Presentation for BC Campus
Alan Levine, CogDogBlog, 2015/04/17
Alan Levine introduces and enmbeds a video entitled The Open Web (a) Lost (b) Reclaimed (c) Co-claimed (d) All of the above? He writes that it "was meant to get at what we see as un-necessary dichotomies in ed tech (and also to poke at multiple choice). More...
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