By Phil Hill. With the annual Kuali conference – Kuali Days – starting today in Indianapolis, the big topic should be the August decision to move from a community source to a professional open source model, moving key development to a commercial entity, the newly-formed KualiCo. Now there will be two new announcements for the community to discuss, both centering on a esoteric license choice that could have far-reaching implications. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 3rd Meeting of OERu partners
Various authors, OERu, 2014/10/31
If I were one of those people who reads the tea leaves, I would say OERu and WikiEducator are heading for a split. Why? Here's the text of the email I received today from OERu: "The OERu is a flagship initiative of the OER Foundation and we are proud to host our planning and course development on WikiEducator as our preferred platform." More...
By Matthew Prineas - EvoLLLution. Heralded for over a decade, the OER (open educational resources) revolution has, for most of this period, seemed always just out of reach. As little as three years ago, Shai Reshef, founder of University of the People, could without understatement, call the impact of OERs on higher education a “quiet, yet revolutionary force … behind the curtains.” More...
By Phil Hill. The Babson Survey Research Group (BSRG) – the same one that administers the annual Survey of Online Learning – has released a survey of faculty titled “Opening the Curriculum” on the decision process and criteria for choosing teaching resources with an emphasis on Open Educational Resources (OER). While their funding from the Hewlett Foundation and from Pearson[1] is for the current survey only, there are proposals to continue the Faculty OER surveys annually to get the same type of longitudinal study that they provide for online learning. More...
By Meris Stansbury - . Faculty across institutions aren’t using OER—and the few who are often don’t know it, says a new industry report; leading to concerns about definition and copyright understanding. More...
By Rebecca Ratcliffe. From getting early career researchers on board to ensuring the global south is represented, experts describe the major hurdles facing open access. More...By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Open Standard
Various authors, Mozilla, 2014/10/21
Mozilla has launched a newsletter called 'The Open Standard' which addresses issues such as privacy, transparency and trust. The lead article today, for example, is titled: Who’s Collecting Kids’ Personal Data? Lots of People. More...
By Barbara Fister. The recent reversal of a lengthy and long-awaited court decision about how fair use might apply in electronic reserve readings was disappointing in some ways and reassuring in others. We still will need to make complex decisions about whether making a digital portion of a book available to students enrolled in a course requires permission from and payment to a rights holder or whether it is a fair use. Every single time. Read more...
aOpen Educational Ideas is preparing a new online platform that will involve educators interested in Open Educational Resources (OER) to get pitch new ideas, get feedback, and connect with collaborators. The initiative is seeking recommendations of tools for open course and textbok development. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Launching the new Open Access Button. Push Button. Get Research. Make Progress.
Unattributed, Open Access Button Blog, 2014/10/17
I'm sure every research has had the same experience: we do a search on Google or follow up a promising reference form some other paper, access the link, and are faced with nothing but a subscription wall. It's a daily occurrence for me, and to my min, these search results are nothing but spam. The Open Access Button is intended as a remedy. More...
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