By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Top Fears Shutting the Door on Open Education
A.J. O'Connell, Campus Technology, 2017/02/01
Some people say fear is the reason professors don't want to open up classrooms. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Top Fears Shutting the Door on Open Education
A.J. O'Connell, Campus Technology, 2017/02/01
Some people say fear is the reason professors don't want to open up classrooms. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. A Growing (But Controversial) Idea in Open-Access Textbooks: Let Students Help Write Them
Ellen Wexler, EdSurge, 2017/02/09
I've promoted the idea of having students author learning resources since forever, but not surprisingly the idea hasn't caught on. It won't catch on after this article either but each voice in support is a tiny step forward. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. If content is king, why are OER still uncrowned? A developing world perspective’
Asha Kanwar, Balasubramanian Kodhandaraman, Abdurrahman Umar, Pan-Commonwealth Forum, 2017/02/09
This is a conference presentation from 2010 which was listed in the OER Knowledge Cloud today (10 page PDF). So it's a bit dated but it's well written and I felt it was a pretty good description of some fundamental trends and issues in open educational resources. More...
The registered active student population of the National Open University of Nigeria has hit 254,000, reports Premium Times. . More...
By Laura Ascione. With the emergence of digital learning materials and open educational resources (OER), instructors have a wealth of instructional course materials at their fingertips. More...
11 October saw the publication of the Commission’s High Level Expert Group on the European Science Cloud, which can be found here. The Recommendations provide a solid starting point for further reflection and engagement of scientific user communities, research funders and Member States in the making of this global initiative. More...
On Monday 18th January 2016, the Austrian Federal Ministeries BMVIT, BMWFW and Austrian Council (RFTE) together with winnovation hosted an Open Innovation Strategy Stakeholder Workshop as an important first step in gaining feedback and ideas from Austrian society for the development of a new Open Innovation Strategy for Austria (www.openinnovation.gv.at), a first of its kind globally. Read more...
L'outil permet d'accéder gratuitement aux données concernant les entreprises ou les établissements, de télécharger la base Sirene. Recherche par SIRENE, SIRET, raison sociale, adresse. Voir l'article...
La Région Grand Est lance la plateforme « Open Data » à l’échelle du Grand Est. Ce projet permettra de diffuser les données publiques de la Région Grand Est sur une seule et même plateforme : data.grandest.fr. Voir plus...
The EUA High-Level Group on “big deals” with scientific publishers and the Expert Group on Science 2.0/Open Science met in Brussels on 12 and 13 January 2017 to discuss negotiations with large publishers, text and data mining (TDM) and open research data. More...