The OER15 conference
Grainne Conole, e4innovation.com, 2015/04/17
Grainne Conole summarizes two of four keynotes at the OER15 conference taking place in Cardiff, one by Cable Green and the other by Josie Fraser. More...
The OER15 conference
Grainne Conole, e4innovation.com, 2015/04/17
Grainne Conole summarizes two of four keynotes at the OER15 conference taking place in Cardiff, one by Cable Green and the other by Josie Fraser. More...
When is an OER an OER?
David Wiley, iterating toward openness, 2018/03/08
David Wiley argues that we shoul revise the definition of 'open educational resources', changing the criteria from requiring 'free access to the resource' to requiring only 'free access to the rights to reuse the resource'. This allows the resource itself to be not available for free, and yet still be an open educational resource. More...
In 2016, the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) gave Google’s artificial intelligence company DeepMind access to healthcare data on 1.6 million hospital patients. The data was to be used for an app that identifies kidney problems. None of the patients had been contacted to give their explicit consent to such an arrangement, and the UK data guardian, the Information Commission, subsequently ruled that the NHS had not adequately protected the privacy of their data. More...
Already in its third edition, the 2016-2017 survey gathered responses from 338 universities and higher education institutions from 39 European countries, representing a 100% increase from the 2015-2016 response rate. Since its inception in 2014, the initiative has collected input from 400 different institutions across Europe, providing EUA with the basis for a series of recommendations in 2017 on Open Access to Research Publications and to Research Data. It also allowed the EUA Council to issue a Statement addressed to EU institutions and national governments indicating the type of support universities need to make Open Access and Open Science a reality. More...
Chamilo LMS est une solution européenne, un logiciel libre de production et de diffusion de contenu pédagogique, intuitive, facile de prise en main, dédiée à la gestion des apprenants et des cours, sous licence GNU / GPLv3. Elle permet d'améliorer l'accès à l'éducation et aux connaissances à l'échelle mondiale. Plus...
Le Réseau européen pour les compétences de base (European Basic Skills Network, EBSN (link is external)) lancera bientôt une nouvelle série sur le développement des compétences (Capacity Building Series) destinée aux intervenants européens et conçue pour soutenir les décideurs et les éducateurs pour adultes participant à l’initiative Parcours de renforcement des compétences. Plus...
Open Learning Objects: The Case for Inner Metadata
This is one of those papers that leaves you scratching your head. There's something there worth considering but the paper is long on describing the technology and short on explaining what the technology does. More...
L'accès Premium est gratuit pour toute personne inscrite à Pôle emploi.A l’occasion de la Journée Villes Internet, qui vient chaque année labelliser les villes les plus engagées dans la digitalisation, l’association Open Data France a présenté le bilan de son programme expérimental Open Data Locale visant à accompagner les collectivités dans leur démarche d’ouverture des données prochainement obligatoire pour certaines d’entre elles. Plus...