By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Open Training Platform
Just launched by UNESCO, the Open Training Platform is intended "to empower trainers or/and trainees with free resources, offer them a structured collaborative space to share their training but also to promote and value the 'open' training materials, which are freely and openly accessible for trainers and self-learners to use and re-use for non commercial purposes such as teaching, learning and research." It is worth noting, as Armelle Arrou does in an email, that "although at the moment much of the content is copyright protected, we are aiming to sensitize UN staff and other training producers to the importance of open content licensing. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Heave Ho, Scallywags, There's Events Listings O'er Thar to Liberate
It's stating the obvious, but it's also something that really needs to be stated, as the collective wisdom of the educational community sits around helpless, unable, it seems, to reason this through. Things like events and job listings (which Scott Leslie covers in a previous post) could be very easily syndicated. It just takes some work to round up the sources and to create a custom feed. A lot like the way I created Edu_RSS (which I really must get going again). Sure, it would be a lot easier if educational institutions actually helped by, say, creating Jobs RSS feeds and Events RSS feeds. But like I say, it's easier to sit around helpless. More...