Although we’ve already had a weekend plus a Monday to digest COSL’s Open Ed ’08, the events from the conference and general good feeling inspired by speakers and individual conversations still drives us forward into the week and the beginning of next month. This year’s conference featured several notable speakers; the keynotes themselves were given …Read More“ccLearn's COSL Open Ed '08 download”
There’s been a whole lot of press on open textbooks lately, in addition to my own posts on the Flexbook and the Student PIRGs’ recent report encouraging open source textbooks as the right model for digital textbooks (versus the limited e-books that commercial publishers currently offer). The difference in open source and commercial e-books is …Read More“Back to School: Open Textbooks Gaining in Popularity”
JISC CETIS (JISC教育技术与互操作性标准中心)是JISC资助的服务机构，长期以来一直在研究教育技术，并在CC BY-NC-SA许可下覆盖该领域的最新发展。One of their latest publications is a briefing paper on open educational resources (OER) titled, “Open Educational Resources — Opportunities and …Read More“"Open Educational Resources — Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education"”
The Center for Open and Sustainable Learning (COSL) has been hosting an OER Handbook on WikiEducator for a while now, inviting others to contribute and edit various elements of the book. Now they’ve finally published the first printable version of one of their mini-handbooks: OER Handbook for Educators 1.0. The actual handbook isn’t so mini—though …Read More“OER Handbook for Educators 1.0”
The August issue of the Open Source Business Resource (OSBR) is dedicated to education. It is now available online, including two articles specifically devoted to open education: “A Flat Network for the Unflat World: Open Educational Resources in Developing Countries” (Steven Muegge, Monica Mora, Kamal Hassin, Andrew Pullin) and “Why Give Knowledge Away for Free? …Read More“The Open Source Business Resource: Education Issue”
Today TED announced the 50 millionth view of a TED talk, marking its success since it first launched online two years ago in June of 2006. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design—and it features talks by various speakers from Bill Clinton to Bono. However, the most viewed talks are actually given by persons previously unknown. …Read More“50 Millionth View of TEDTalks”
OpenEducation.net跟踪了教育的变化气候——更具体地说，是网络上开放教育资源日益增长的趋势。在最近的一篇题为《数字公地——不受管制，我们注定要遭遇悲剧吗?》, they explore the potential of the open digital commons, concluding that open access is the key to …Read More“CC and Net Neutrality”
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has been a tremendous supporter of Creative Commons and our new educational division, ccLearn. The foundation’s newsletter just published a great interview with Catherine Casserly, their Program Officer for Open Educational Resources. Here are a couple excerpts: Aren’t copyright laws an obstacle to all of this? Traditionally, they have …Read More“Catherine Casserly on Open Educational Resources”
Caltech economics professor Preston McAfee appears to be mad as hell about high journal and textbook prices, and he’s doing something about it. He’s published a complete Introduction to Economic Analysis textbook under a Creative Commons license. See his page about the license and high textbook prices: Why open source? Academics do an enormous amount …Read More“Economic Analysis”
This is the second of several postings describing potential innovations to our licenses. It comes courtesy of Rob Hallman, a Stanford Law School student in the “Advanced Contracts: Creative Commons” seminar. Commons.edu? You have the power to make learning fun. At least partly. Promoting education is a personal goal and a corporate mission for many …Read More“Commons.edu? (Innovation 1b)”