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No matter if you enjoy taking or just watching images of space, NASA has a treat for you. They have made their entire collection of images, sounds, and video available and publicly searchable online. It’s 
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http://www.ted.com Rice University professor Richard Baraniuk explains the vision behind Connexions, his open-source, online education system. It cuts out th...
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We are lucky enough to be in an age where people are taking technology into their own hands. Via Dr. Susan Bainbridge
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Following the adventure of putting together an Open Source school: Albany Senior High School in Auckland, New Zealand. Covers pedagogy, learning, software, hardware, learning management systems, libraries and anything else I feel like talking about.
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CANVAS, an open source learning management system with its genesis in Salt Lake City’s Brigham Young University, has launched its Asia-Pacific headquarters.
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We are approaching a decade and a half of experience in one strand of the higher education open agenda: the development and use of open-source software. Motivated by the three drivers of cost, performance, and control—as identified by Paul Courant, former librarian of the University of Michigan—open-source software has been widely adopted by higher education.1 It is useful to periodically draw lessons from this collective experience to inform the shape and direction of future initiatives.
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Aalto University in Finland has a new publication, "Towards Peer Production in Public Services: Cases from Finland" available for free download.
KF: An interesting book available under a reasonably new "copyfarleft" licensing arrangement. The book provides some useful insights into openness and peer/collaborative production strategies. It brings to mind the Cachalot (http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/cachalot/id458866319?mt=8) book from Duke University where expertise is crowd-sourced, peer review is managed and distribution is open-source. These new models of content creation and distribution are set to challenge the established (dis)order of publishing and distribution. Thanks to Yves Simon for the suggestion.
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The group of developers that had begun and maintained the Perian video-codec project over the last six years is calling it quits, and will release one more version of the popular video translator before shutting down support and posting the code on... ____________ Open source project closes down. Is this one of the reasons why people are wary of open source software?
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