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Elizabeth E Charles
August 15, 2017 3:23 PM
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Nearly half of all recently published journal articles are freely available online, according to researchers who claim that institutions may be approaching a tipping point where they cancel their subscriptions to paywalled periodicals.
The analysis suggests that about 19 million journal papers are now open access, and that these publications receive 18 per cent more citations than the world average.
At one Midwest community college, it’s a group effort to get 70 percent of instructors using open educational resources by 2020.
Via Becky Roehrs
Faculty have been slow to adopt open education resources, but Virginia's Tidewater Community College offers zero-cost degree programs, which might jump-start the ed tech trend.
Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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Elizabeth E Charles
July 7, 2017 12:34 PM
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Chances are, if you can define the word phenomenology, you’re already a student of the 20th century philosophical school, field, movement, or—as its earliest expositor, Edmund Husserl wrote in a preface to the English edition of his 1913 Ideas:
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Elizabeth E Charles
June 24, 2017 5:30 PM
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We can learn much about how a historical period viewed the abilities of its children by studying its children's literature. Occupying a space somewhere between the purely didactic and the nonsensical, most children’s books published in the past few hundred years have attempted to find a line between the two poles, seeking a balance between entertainment and instruction.
From the About section: "A State University of New York (SUNY) initiative to provide affordable educational alternatives to traditional textbooks. A service to assist SUNY faculty, librarians, and staff to identify lower-cost, electronic, free, and Open Educational Resources (OERs.) A California State University-MERLOT partner benefit service"
When it comes to the ‘Create’ part of the 7 Cs of Learning Design most course creators will create original content for the core of their course. However, it can be beneficial to incorporate ready made content from other sources rather than constantly reinventing the wheel.
Provided you respect any attached copyright and distribution restrictions, many educators are happy for their content to be shared to a broader audience.
How to Open Pedagogy: Tools and Techniques for Transforming Teaching @actualham
The concept of making college more accessible and affordable with open educational resources is taking off on campuses across the country. SPARC hosted a webcast on March 29 that featured four librarians who shared their experience in supporting OER in creative ways with students,faculty, and community members.
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Elizabeth E Charles
April 14, 2017 12:11 PM
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DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses. More…
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Elizabeth E Charles
April 11, 2017 6:39 AM
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There is fresh momentum in the scholarly publishing world to open up data on the citations that link research publications.
Six organizations today announced the establishment of the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC): OpenCitations, the Wikimedia Foundation, PLOS, eLife, DataCite, and the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University. The Association of Research Libraries is among 33 stakeholder projects and organizations—including the California Digital Library, the Center for Open Science, the Internet Archive, Mozilla, and the Wellcome Trust—that have formally put their names behind I4OC in support of openly accessible citations.
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Elizabeth E Charles
April 11, 2017 5:24 AM
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Open-access advocates have had several successes in the past few weeks. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation started its own open-access publishing platform, which the European Commission may replicate. And librarians attending the Association of College and Research Libraries conference in March were glad to hear that the Open Access Button, a tool that helps researchers gain free access to copies of articles, will be integrated into existing interlibrary-loan arrangements.
Another initiative, called Unpaywall, is a simple browser extension, but its creators, Jason Priem and Heather Piwowar, say it could help alter the status quo of scholarly publishing.
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Elizabeth E Charles
August 7, 2017 9:11 AM
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OER World Map shares information on behalf of the worldwide OER community, using local knowledge to describe the OER ecosystem.
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Elizabeth E Charles
July 19, 2017 5:18 AM
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Sometimes the best tool for the job isn't the newest. It can be an existing tool that only requires a bit of polishing. This case study describes how a new digital services librarian, using a systematic approach, worked with colleagues to inaugurate a technology program within an academic library. In the process a previously-established open source web application was revived, extending its utility to contemporary development platforms. At the Queens College Libraries, an open source room reservation and scheduling system provided an answer to two important questions, and a means for building a new program.
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Elizabeth E Charles
July 7, 2017 6:10 PM
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Initiatives have been taking in the industry in favor of OER usage.
OER or Open Educational Resources are freely accessible, openly licensed text, media, and other digital assets that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research purposes. It is the leading trend in distance education/open and distance learning domain as a consequence of the openness movement. The eBasta platform is one such example of the initiative taken by the Government of India under access to open educational resources.
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Elizabeth E Charles
July 7, 2017 12:44 PM
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The Open Commons of Phenomenology “Books and Reviews” are brought to you by Phenomenological Reviews
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Elizabeth E Charles
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June 28, 2017 2:13 PM
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ARTSEDGE is the Kennedy Center’s free digital learning platform for arts education. Our resources-- including lesson plans, guides, audio stories, video clips, and interactives-- support K-12 teaching and learning in the arts in the classroom, at home, and beyond.
Via Ana Cristina Pratas, Jim Lerman, Dean J. Fusto
When, local time: Monday, 18 September 2017 - 8:30am to Wednesday, 20 September 2017 - 2:00pm
Where: Slovenia, Ljubljana
Type of Event: Category 4- International Congress
Contact: Ms Annapaola Coppola (ap.coppola@unesco.org)
Within the framework of the UNESCO approved Programme and Budget for 2016-2017, adopted by the 38th session of the Organization’s General Conference (Paris, November 2015), UNESCO and the Government of Slovenia, in cooperation with the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), and with support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, are organizing the 2nd World Open Educational Resources (OER) Congress in Ljubljana (Slovenia), from 18 to 20 September 2017. The Congress will bring together Ministers of Education, decision-makers responsible for human resources development, senior policy makers, expert practitioners, researchers and other relevant stakeholders.
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Elizabeth E Charles
May 26, 2017 6:24 PM
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This collection provides a list of free educational resources for K-12 students (kindergarten through high school students) and their parents and teachers. It features free video lessons/tutorials; free mobile apps; free audiobooks, ebooks and textbooks; quality YouTube channels; free foreign language lessons; test prep materials; and free web resources in academic subjects like literature, history, science and computing. This newly-released list is a work in progress.
I don’t know how common it is for folks to have to explain Creative Commons licenses for others, but it often feels like a “continuously negotiated” thing (to use Catherine Cronin’s term). So I recently had a conversation that went something like this, with a professor who wants to create an open textbook (the actual discussion was slightly more complex and with more people involved):
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Elizabeth E Charles
April 25, 2017 4:32 PM
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The process of compiling and submitting data papers to journals has long been a frustrating one to the minority of researchers that have tried. Fiona Murphy, part of a project team working to automate this process, outlines why publishing data papers is important and how open data can be of benefit to all stakeholders across scholarly communications and higher education.
Giving Researchers Credit for their Data – or ‘Data2Paper’ as we’re now more snappily calling it – is a cloud-based app which uses existing DataCite and ORCID-derived metadata to automate the process of compiling and submitting a data paper to a journal without the researcher having to leave the research space or wrestle directly with the journal’s submission system (an occasional source of frustration)
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Elizabeth E Charles
April 16, 2017 10:26 AM
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Art lovers who visit my hometown of Washington, DC have an almost embarrassing wealth of opportunities to view art collections classical, Baroque, Renaissance, modern, postmodern, and otherwise through the Smithsonian’s network of museums. From the East and West Wings of the National Gallery, to the Hirshhorn, with its wondrous sculpture garden, to the American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery—I’ll admit, it can be a little overwhelming, and far too much to take in during a weekend jaunt, especially if you’ve got restless family in tow.
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Elizabeth E Charles
April 14, 2017 12:09 PM
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The City University of New York and State University of New York systems are preparing for the conversation about college affordability to shift to the cost of textbooks as the state rolls out its free-tuition plan.
Governor Andrew Cuomo and state legislators announced Saturday they had reached a deal that will make tuition free at CUNY and SUNY. Known as the Excelsior Scholarship, the program could help as many as 940,000 families afford higher education, according to one estimate.
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Elizabeth E Charles
April 11, 2017 5:25 AM
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