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Repositories Support Project event. In this free webinar Charles Oppenheim, Emeritus Professor of Information Science at Loughborough University, will present on issues related to Web 2.0, the use of non-exclusive Creative Commons licenses and... 
Writing Commons provides free access to an award-winning college textbook that was initially published by a major publisher. Why should we ask students to pay $100 for a textbook when we can provide them with a free real-time resource like WritingCommons.Org? A video for Open Education Week - learn how to find open educational resources in 60 seconds! The innovation du jour for teaching and learning, OERs are at their core of some of the largest grant-funding sources for new courses and course materials. 
OpenCourseWare (OCW) refers to academic course materials created by universities that are shared freely on the Internet as digital publications. The OCW movement in the U.S. was started by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and now many other schools and companies have caught on. See more in this infographic! 
Die Non-Profit-Organisation Sourcefabric hat mit Booktype eine webbasierte Software zum kollaborativen Erstellen von Online-Büchern, E-Books und gedruckten Büchern vorgestellt. |
The Botswana College of Open and Distance Learning (BOCODOL) will transform into an Open University in 2016. 
Playlists: Nice idea managing existing OER ... (via @openscout) 
A number of OER university thought leaders will open the University of Leicester series of webinars for Open Education Week. Register your seat today: http://goo.gl/ITeyy
Further Information
On 6th and 7th March 2012, the University of Leicester will be running a series of three webinars entitled "Enabling universal access to higher education via openness and collaboration?" to celebrate Open Education Week.
Confirmed speakers include Jim Taylor (University of Southern Queensland), Grainne Conole (University of Leicester), George Siemens (Athabasca University), Martin Weller and Patrick McAndrew (Open University UK), Sandra Wills (Wollongong University), Vasi Doncheva (Northtec Polytechnic) and Anthony Camilleri (EFQUEL and OERtest). The series is jointly hosted by the TOUCANS and ELKS projects at the Beyond Distance Research Alliance, in partnership with the Open University's SCORE Programme and the Higher Education Funding Council for England.
For more information and registration, please go to http://toucansproject.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/webinars/.
To go straight to registration, please see http://goo.gl/ITeyy . 
Jonathan Finkelstein, founder of LearningTimes and director of the BadgeStack Project, recently spoke to Dr. Martha J. Kanter, Under Secretary of Education at the U.S. Department of Education. The discussion turned towards digital badges and the role they can play in education and workforce development. "Substance.io is an amazing web-based document authoring and publishing platform. It basically allows anyone who fancies themselves a writer to use an open platform to collectively write or share some articles." via StartupTunes |
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