Open Knowledge and Open Source Initiatives: An Interview with MIT's Phil Long
Not as detailed as it could be, but this article is nonetheless a useful discussion of MIT's open courseware and the related Open Knowledge Initiative. The article takes direct aim at the question of why people can't take the MIT content and the MIT online learning environment and say that they're offering an MIT course. More...
Open Journal System
The Open Journal System is a nice piece of software that provides simple tool for the online publication of academic papes. OJS assists with every stage of the refereed publishing process, from submissions through to online publication and indexing. More...
United States Open University Announces Plan To Cease Operations
Ever hear of the United States Open University? No? That's probably why it is closing its virtual doors. More...
The Impact of Open Source, Grids and Advanced Networks
The bulk of this article relates remarks by IBM's Bill Zeitler on the economics of open source. More...
Open Software & Open Standards in South Africa
Vendors of instructional and learning management software in the international market might want to take note of the line of reasoning in this article: "A sustained Rand slide will make licenses on imported software (not to mention other imports) prohibitively expensive. More...
Towards an Ethical Framework for Open Recognition
Serge Ravet, Medium, 2017/12/01
Though I think this project is a good idea, I am always wary when people use the phrase 'ethical framework', as there is no universal ethical perspective on which we will all agree. So this raises the question of what "an ethical framework for Open Badges in support of Open Recognition" would look like. More...
OER Canvas
Sandra Schön, Javiera Atenas, Martin Ebner, Open Education Working Group, 2018/03/01
According to an email, "we have been working on a small project to provide to the Open Education Community a wide range of translated versions of the OER canvas. The Canvas is a tool developed to help educators and community to design OER or to convert teaching and learning materials into OER." The result can be viewed on this website. Here's the Englis one as a big PDF. More...
Macmillan Learning Intros Curated OER Course Materials
Rhea Kelly, Campus Technology, 2018/02/14
I don't think the real problem with OERs is quality. Sure, it's nice to choose the better of two resources, if given a choice, and limited to using only one. But why limit yourself. Look at both! But of course looking at both is exactly the opposite of the model where course designers select the one-and-only resource from a library to create prepackaged courses to students. More...
By Inge Ignatia de Waard. The National Institute for Digital Learning in Dublin (NIDL), Ireland has listed what they see as the top 10 open access articles worth reading in 2017 here (with a small abstract for each). More...
By Phil Hill. This bill was a disaster in the making. Not only would it have been unworkable in terms of funding and intellectual property ownership, it would also have set back the OER movement by associating OER with unfunded faculty mandates and reduction of academic freedom. All this from good intentions but apparently shallow understanding. More...
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