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14 juin 2014

Open Education: How to Get There Through Open Government & Open Education Data

The latest ePSI platform monthly topic report examines how open government and open data initiatives could contribute towards opening up education in European countries, especially those aspiring towards EU integration. Topic Report. More...

14 juin 2014

Veni, Vidi, Vici: three competitions for innovative applications of open data in education

The LinkedUp Challenge consists of three consecutive competitions looking for interesting and innovative tools and applications that analyse and/or integrate open web data for educational purposes. LinkedUp Challenge. More...

14 juin 2014

Opensource.com explains the basics of "What is Open Education?"

Opensource.com has put together a new resource dedicated to explaining Open Education in a Q&A format.
What is Open Education? on OpenSource.com. More...

14 juin 2014

10 short videos to get you fully primed on Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources (OER) are becoming ever more abundant and accepted, there is still a need for a better mainstream understanding of what open resources are and how they can be used. This series of informative videos addressed to teachers and educators covers the basics and more. OER videos. More...

14 juin 2014

Open Education: How to Get There Through Open Government & Open Education Data

The latest ePSI platform monthly topic report examines how open government and open data initiatives could contribute towards opening up education in European countries, especially those aspiring towards EU integration. 
The topic report draws connections between open government, open data, and open education initiatives, highlighting how concerted actions could bear fruit in terms of increased participation, transparency, accountability, and improved teaching practices
Download Open Education - How to Get There Through Open Government & Open Education Data.pdf. More...

6 juin 2014

MIT and Harvard release de-identified learning data from open online courses

A research team from Harvard University and MIT has released its third and final promised deliverable — the de-identified learning data — relating to an initial study of online learning based on each institution’s first-year courses on the edX platform.
Specifically, the dataset contains the original learning data from the 16 HarvardX and MITx courses offered in 2012-13 that formed the basis of the first HarvardX and MITx working papers (released in January) and underpin a suite of powerful open-source interactive visualization tools (released in February). More...

29 mai 2014

Institute for Open Leadership

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Institute for Open Leadership
Open Policy Network, May 26, 2014
Are you good enough for open learning? "Who should apply to be an IOL Fellow? Public and private sector professionals interested in openness and policy with the passion and potential to make a high impact at their institution and/or government through open policy*. Emerging leaders in academia, the arts, cultural institutions, government, scientific labs, and others who are eager to become experts in open licensing." More...

24 mai 2014

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Launch of the

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Launch of the Open Policy Network
Open Policy Network, May 23, 2014.
The Open Policy Network has now officially launched. Here's their version of open: "we’re announcing our first project, the Institute for Open Leadership. More...

Launch of the Open Policy Network
Open Policy Network, May 23, 2014

 

The Open Policy Network has now officially launched. Here's their version of open: "we’re announcing our first project, the Institute for Open Leadership

24 mai 2014

Looking Beyond Sakai

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/large/public/digital_tweed_blog_header.jpgBy Kenneth C. Green. This year marks the 10th anniversary of Sakai, one of the two flavors of Open Source Learning Management Systems (LMS) used by many colleges and universities.  It was with great fanfare (and also great aspirations) that in January 2004 the Mellon Foundation announced a $2.7M grant (more like seed money venture philanthropy) to help launch Sakai, intended as a community-determined and driven alternative to the commercial LMS applications licensed by colleges and universities.    Essential to the Sakai initiative were significant cash and kind contributions from four universities: Indiana, Michigan, MIT, and Stanford. 
At the time of Sakai launch I characterized the LMS arena in higher education as “a mature market with immature products,” a combination that suggested great volatility in the marketplace. Read more...
23 mai 2014

IOP launches ‘offsetting’ scheme to cut cost of open access

By . A publisher has launched a pilot with 21 UK universities to reduce their subscription costs in proportion to the amount of open access fees they pay. The “offsetting” arrangement devised by the Institute of Physics’ publishing arm will allow universities that subscribe to its “hybrid” journals to publish more open access papers in them without incurring greater costs. More...

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