New study maps the copyright exemptions for OER in Europe
The study has been published as a working paper called Educational Resources Development: Mapping Copyright Exceptions and Limitations in Europe. It is written by Teresa Nobre, Legal Lead of Creative Commons Portugal. The paper aims to make the highly compelx and fragmented landscape easier to understand by identifying the essential elements of the legal provisions that relate to education, and then compare those elements across countries in a yes/no format. More...
Incredible Images via Wellcome
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Incredible Images via Wellcome
Doug Peterson, doug - off the record, 2014/08/13
Another source of free (Creative Commons licensed) images. Doug Peterson writes, "You would be hard pressed to find a comparable collection. I came across the site while looking for some World War I images the other day. More...
From Open To Connected
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. From Open To Connected
Gardner Campbell, Gardner Writes, Aug 10, 2014
One of the points I've tried to make over the years is that open learning requires commented learning, and vice versa. That's why the drive to trivialize the 'open' in MOOC isn't just an accessibility problem, it's a pedagogical problem. Campbell writes, "we may well have missed the greater and more important aims that “open” strives toward. More...
Open science network calls for Global South case studies
ACA Open Access Even More Open!
As already announced earlier, the Academic Cooperation Association (ACA) is opening up its knowledge base on European higher education by offering its flagship monograph series ACA Papers on International Cooperation in Education to all those with a shared interest in student mobility and the internationalisation of higher education.
Since 1999, ACA’s monograph series ACA Papers on International Cooperation in Education has been providing European policymakers with valuable facts, figures and in-depth analysis of topical issues related to mobility and the internationalisation of higher education. Most of the ACA Papers are results of EU-funded projects designed to support the making of European higher education policies at European, national and institutional levels. More...
Report: Open Access to Journal Articles Gaining Acceptance from Researchers
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Report: Open Access to Journal Articles Gaining Acceptance from Researchers
Leila Meyer, Campus Technology, Jul 11, 2014
More evidence of the increasing acceptability of open access research. "The report, "Taylor & Francis Open Access Survey, June 2014," is the second annual survey of journal authors on their opinions toward open access publication. More...
Un package complet de formations en accès libre
Afdas Infos #14 vient de paraître, accompagné du supplément "Abécédaire de la réforme".
Un package complet de formations en accès libre
Le nouveau module e-learning, en accès libre, s’intitule « découvrir les modèles économiques de la presse en ligne ». En une durée de 45 min, il cible le modèle économique d’un site de presse en ligne à travers ses différents enjeux : sources de revenus, besoins marketing et production du contenu.
Ce sixième module est le dernier de la collection disponible sur la plateforme e-learning, élaborée par des professionnels de la presse, dans laquelle on trouve les thématiques suivantes : « développer sa veille et son investigation sur le Web », « écriture Web », « améliorer le référencement de vos articles et de votre site », « création et animation d’un blog » et « gérer la communauté en ligne ». Environ 1 500 utilisateurs – des salariés du secteur de la presse (journalistes, commerciaux, administratifs, etc.) – se sont inscrits depuis sa création en janvier 2012. Télécharger Afdas Infos #14.
#OER on higher ed, corporate, personal & #development
By Inge Ignatia de Waard. Thanks to my new contact Vivienne Bozalek from UWC, I got redirected to ROER4D (Open Educational Resources for the Global South or for development). She shared an interesting talk with Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. And as I was listening to this 30 minute talk, another OER movie caught my attention: Using OER for workforce development which was presented by Una Daly from the Open CourseWare Consortium. Which led to the OER use in an open course, which is (among others) done and shared by the Tompkins Courtland Community College through the Kaleidoscope project. This in term reminded my of a talk given by Stephen Downes on the MOOC of one, which in a small (but to me relevant way) links OER to personal learning environments. Read more...Open access papers ‘gain more traffic and citations’
By . Open access science articles are read and cited more often than articles available only to subscribers, a study has suggested. The Research Information Network analysed the web traffic to more than 700 articles published in hybrid science journal Nature Communications in the first six months of 2013. More...