By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web.Learning's blind spot
nick shackleton-jones, aconventional, 2015/05/29
This is a very nice diagram that (coincidentally) compares traditional education with what we're doing with performance support. Nick Shackleton-Jones isn't writing about LPSS but he may as well be. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Decolonizing Critical Participation and Writing: A Year of Open Access Publishing on the Margins
Marlana Eck, Hybrid Pedagogy, 2015/05/29
I don't know if there is necessarily a right answer here but on one hand we have the imperative of writing and publishing about what is being taught in class, and on the other hand we have the imperative of preserving student privacy. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Analyzing the Social Web
Jennifer Golbeck, 2015/05/27
Sheri Oberman sent me this link to a set of video lectures on the topic of analyzing the open web. Topics include network basics, network structure, visualization, tie strength and trust, building networks, and more. More...
Les 18 et 19 novembre 2015 à la Plaine Saint-Denis se tiendra la 1ère édition du Paris Open Source Summit. Ce nouvel évènement rassemble désormais l’ancien salon Solutions Linux et l'Open World Forum (OWF). Exposition de solutions Linux orientée business, village associatif, conférences et rendez-vous traditionnels de la communauté y sont toujours attendus. L’appel à contributions sur le thème « Open for Innovation » vient d’être lancé, et est ouvert jusqu'au 17 juillet prochain. Il « privilégiera les contributions qui mettent en avant des expériences d'utilisateurs et les innovations dans les domaines comme l'usine du futur, l'Internet des objets, l'eSanté, les transports, les collectivités locales, les systèmes d'information d'entreprise, la gestion de l'énergie et de l'environnement, l'agriculture, les médias et l'éducation".
En savoir + :: Le Paris Open Source Summit lance son appel à contributions
By . One of the questions I had to ask myself as a self-publishing author of Teaching in a Digital Age was whether I needed my book to be independently reviewed before publication. If so, would the same criteria need to be used as if I was publishing commercially. More...
By . My main reason is that there is a major paradigm shift happening in education, driven partly by a changing economy and the need for a highly skilled and knowledgeable work-force, greater diversity of students as access has increased, and of course new technologies that not only have great capacity to change the way we teach, but which are also in common use by our students. More...
By . Open textbooks may be free, but they are not without cost.
So what is the cost of developing an open textbook from scratch?
Answer: a minimum of $80,000, more likely around $130,000. More...
By . This is the obvious and most important measure of success: how much does an open textbook save by reducing one of the major costs of education? Here in British Columbia, the average annual cost of textbooks for BC post-secondary institutions is $1,200 per student, if they bought all the required textbooks new (which of course, many don’t). More...
By Brian Mathews. I had hoped to do a full interview on this but that’s not going to happen: running out of time.
Short version, Brian Nosek (Center for Open Science & UVA) spoke at our Open Access Week event last year. More...
By Matthew Reisz. Jean-Claude Burgelman also tells London conference of need to 'embed' the concept in society. More...
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