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How most Open Educational Resources fail to meet the UNESCO definition of OER because they are not shared freely and cannot be remixed freely. Via Domitilla Enders 
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The publisher EUROJOURNALS has apparently decided to change its publishing model from open access to toll access. This Seychelles-based publisher -- which is included on my list of predatory publis...
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Surely a retrograde step on the part of EUROJOURNALS.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Free Courses On Copyright and Creative Commons for Educators #OER http://t.co/uXkENQzbq9
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The thorny issue of "open access" - which I take to mean the question of how to make the fruits of publicly-funded research freely and openly available to the public - is one that's way above my pa...
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Last week I have published a post about visibility and citations in Open Access. The post was referring to the results of two separate reports related to the subject. As the question of visibility and citations in OA journals and books remains valid, being a subject of intense debate in scientific community, the issue is worth exploring. This time round I would like to mention two interesting researches, which studied the coverage and range of citations in Open Access offering, basing on comparison between OA and non-OA journals. The research conducted by Michael Norris is quite thorough, on almost 400 pages the author describes the results of his extensive analysis in: “The citation advantage of open access articles”.
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Open access impact on research dissemination.
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So what happens when Google, Amazon, and your local library come up short in your quest for free educational eBooks?
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From
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Here are 80 open education resources that you can use to learn how to
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EU broadens access to publicly-funded scientific research The Verge Critics of gated academic and research communities have long sought for more open-access to taxpayer-funded information, and thanks to a move by the European Commission, some of...
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UCL guidelines on open access and a publishing guide are available to UCL researchers. The RCUK Policy on Open Access introduces, with effect from 1 April 2013, new open access requirements for research papers ...
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There is a vast range of open educational resources to choose from if you know where to look and how to search. For most teachers however the main barrier to using OER is the difficulty in finding the right material and ...
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EdX, the not-for-profit online learning enterprise founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), today released its XBlock SDK to the general public under the Affero GPL open source license. XBlock is the underlying architecture supporting the rich, interactive course content found in edX courses.
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With the open access agenda will come greater attention for research - some fair minded, some not. Are we ready for that?
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Last week, Mike Taylor discussed his concerns on institutional repositories as an adequate solution to the open access problem and asked Green OA advocates to address these problems. In response, N... Via Ana Cristina Pratas
Ana Cristina Pratas's curator insight,
March 15, 2013 6:05 AM
Self-deposit in a repository was not, as many repository advocates would agree, designed as a complete, permanent solution to achieving universal Open Access. It is however an excellent transitional route for individuals, institutions and disciplines to take. It is this message about transition that has been so often lost in Green v Gold debates, a mistake that is being repeated in the post-Finch discussions. We would like to restate the case for what IRs can do for academics and their research, and to respond to some of Mike’s specific concerns about Green OA. The responses correspond to each of Mike’s five concerns. |
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Lorna and I ran a session at the CETIS conference on the topic of Open Practice and OER Sustainability, we had 10-minute presentations from ten brilliant people who have been involved in the UKOER programme each giving a view from their own perspective...
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Type 'stupid animated gif'---or words to that effect---into your preferred search engine and you'll be rewarded with an abundance of germane material.
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An introduction to FOAM (Free Open Access Meducation), the future of medical education.
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#DigitalHumanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles and Politics - Open Book Publishers - free #ebook http://t.co/JhAzsQGX6p #oer #OERmkd
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It's really difficult to tell the whole story of a conference such as Cetis 2013, unless you break down its main parts.
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In March 1988, the BBC's Arena turned its lens toward photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. The television documentary series had already spent well over a.
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OER terminology. The UKOER programme has investigated many aspects of OER release and use over the last three years and detailed discussion of this is available in both the synthesis wiki and the OER infoKit.
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... coffee shop. Share on Twitter Share on Identi.ca. Tags: launch, OER, online courses, open access, open culture, open education, open education week, open educational resources, open science, p2pu, School of Open ...
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One set of key findings was around the role of communities in the release of Open Educational Resources (OER). How professional practice is transformed to support activities underpinning the release of OER, sometimes called open educational practice (OEP), is not well understood. Communities of practice provide a positive environment for changing professional practice.
Examples of communities are subject discipline communities or communities within an institution. Each community will have members with different roles (for example academics, support staff, learners), regulated by specific rules. These sorts of communities are important if the benefits of a culture of open resources, open knowledge, free sharing and peer collaboration in education are to be realised.
The UKOER programme provided a context to explore these tensions and highlight the benefits and limitations of communities in transforming professional practice.
Via Ana Cristina Pratas, Gust MEES
Ana Cristina Pratas's curator insight,
March 11, 2013 9:56 PM
For Open Education week at 11am (GMT) on Thursday at Lou McGill, David Kernohan and Allison Littlejohn will present some of the key findings from the UKOER programme ‘What you can learn from the UKOER experience‘. The programme included over 80 projects aiming to release OER ,funded by two UK government agencies, Jisc (www.jisc.ac.uk) and the Higher Education Academy (HEA www.hea.ac.uk). The programme was based on the idea that widespread involvement of faculty and support staff within the programme would bring about a sustainable change in culture from focusing on content ownership, to focusing on open sharing; and that building a critical mass of OER would bring about sustainable change in practices of reuse and re-purposing. The lessons learned from evaluation and synthesis of the programme are available from http://bit.ly/oerevalsynth 
Gust MEES's curator insight,
March 13, 2013 1:49 PM
One set of key findings was around the role of communities in the release of Open Educational Resources (OER). How professional practice is transformed to support activities underpinning the release of OER, sometimes called open educational practice (OEP), is not well understood. Communities of practice provide a positive environment for changing professional practice.
Examples of communities are subject discipline communities or communities within an institution. Each community will have members with different roles (for example academics, support staff, learners), regulated by specific rules. These sorts of communities are important if the benefits of a culture of open resources, open knowledge, free sharing and peer collaboration in education are to be realised.
The UKOER programme provided a context to explore these tensions and highlight the benefits and limitations of communities in transforming professional practice.
Check also:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Community
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=OER
- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/is-your-professional-development-up-to-date/
Eleni Zazani's comment,
March 20, 2013 8:29 AM
Thank you for bringing this my attention. I have added a comment on the website
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httpv://vimeo.com/60035152 Just in time to celebrate Open Education Week, here comes a new initiative, the School of Open, a learning environment focused on.
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"Building Research Profile and Culture with Open Access Online" webinar recording: http://t.co/iWSrlB1Zpe #openeducationwk #oa #oer
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From
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7 Ways Librarians Can Participate in Open Access/Source/Education Communities http://t.co/6tgPpEfXnb via @zite
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