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A number of higher education–focused sessions at the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference touched on issues surrounding student retention and completion—and with the costs of tuition, housing, and materials constantly rising, saving students money is a major consideration. When the conversation includes state and community colleges, and a student body that may have less access to financial resources, finding strategies to cut costs becomes more important than ever.
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June 23, 2016 8:39 AM
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LFEPA - the body that runs the London Fire Brigade - has chosen and implemented the Koha library management system. PTFS Europe has provided a full range of
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Elizabeth E Charles
June 3, 2016 2:25 PM
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If we don't act together to build the infrastructure for an open access future, somebody else will - and they are already on it.
I’ve been traveling for a couple of weeks with intermittent internet access so am behind on news, but a couple of stories seem particularly important.
First, a deal was struck in Florida to have a highly successful for-profit publisher populate a university’s institutional repository with links to intellectual property that its faculty created and gave to the publisher. Isn’t this like outsourcing the management of the henhouse to Foxes, Inc.? An Elsevier spokesperson says this will help the repository because it’s much harder for libraries to get material from their faculty than it is for Elsevier. This is a true but cruel irony.
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May 28, 2016 8:33 AM
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European Union (EU) ministers have agreed to make a huge amount of scientific research in the region available free of charge by 2020. The move will open u
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May 25, 2016 12:19 PM
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We take a look at the grimly fascinating collection of the University of Edinburgh’s Anatomical Museum, where a new interactive app has been launched to open it up to people worldwide.
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Elizabeth E Charles
May 24, 2016 3:38 PM
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Shadowy digital libraries want to hold all the world's knowledge and give it away for free. All around the world, shadow libraries keep growing, filled with banned materials. But no actual papers trade hands: everything is digital, and the internet-accessible content is not banned for shocking content so much as that modern crime, copyright infringement.
.. I’ve been thinking about OER16 since the conference ended just over four weeks ago. I’m reflecting now not just through the lens of those few weeks but also the other conferences and workshops which I attended immediately afterward, namely the C-DELTA project in Cape Town and the Networked Learning #NLC2016 doctoral consortium and conference…
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May 23, 2016 7:43 AM
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The title here is a little deceptive. Because, clearly, I do know what we mean when we call scholarly communications platforms ‘sustainable’. We mean that they will, through one business model or another, manage to maintain themselves without research funders ploughing endless cash into them. Yet, I’ve been thinking about this recently and it comes with several pre-assumptions that are quite tricky to unpick.
Finding high-quality open educational resources used to be a challenge, but a number of curated OER collections have made the task much easier for educators. Here are eight sources that can help.
Via Robert Schuwer, Robert Farrow
In preparation for our #OER16 presentation, this is the first of two blog posts where Keith Smyth and will build on our abstract and give a bit more detail and context around our current thinking. There’s quite a bit to pack into a 15 minute conference presentation so we hope that these posts will allow…
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April 18, 2016 10:15 AM
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The National Science Digital Library is a collection of high-quality online educational resources for teaching and learning science.
Using the work of the OER Research Hub at the Open University, different types of OER users are identified. The different strategies for reaching these audiences are considered
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April 7, 2016 3:40 PM
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I noted, on Twitter, how pleased I was to discover that there was good information available online about my current condition. I want, here though, to offer a few words to the ridiculous arguments that are sometimes brought against open access. Namely, that there isn’t a public for this material because it is specialized in both its wording and its content.
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June 29, 2016 3:26 PM
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Open Data as Open Educational Resources: Towards Transversal Skills and Global Citizenship
As Project DELILA prepares to come to a close, Jane Secker writes about how the project has aided the development of new and innovative teaching methods and has embedded digital and information literacy…
Bringing together librarians, educational developers and learning technologists from a range of institutions, Project DELILA has proven the potential and value that digital and informational literacy can have for higher education teaching. The Developing Educators Learning and Information Literacies for Accreditation Project (DELILA) is part of a series of projects to release a set of open educational resources (OER) and has focussed on releasing materials relating to digital and information literacy that are suitable for use in teacher accreditation programmes in higher education.
Leeds and OU programmes signal significant change in online platform’s pricing structure
Over the past couple of weeks, my news feed reminds me of the vast disparity in use of digital and open educational resources (OER) as well as the lack of education surrounding how to use these cost effective, pedagogically sound Read More >
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May 24, 2016 3:50 PM
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New funds available for Public Open Data projects - European Data Portal
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May 24, 2016 6:13 AM
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We spoke with a few of them, and for the most part, they had no problem with being popular on the piracy network.
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May 23, 2016 8:01 AM
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Purchase of research repository has horrified open access advocates who fear acquisition marks attempt to maintain control over publishing
Are OERs Sustainable? Martin Poulter, OPENEDSIG Archives, May 22, 2016
Commentary by Stephen Downes.
This is an excellent posts looking at five key questions regarding the sustainability of open educational resources (OERs), backed with examples and references. Here they are
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April 29, 2016 3:39 PM
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Working towards global open access, in partnership with information professionals and researchers, we enable the UK's academic research community to realise the rewards of open access.
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April 19, 2016 8:40 AM
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Since most of our team members are somehow connected to the library world, one of the first things we wanted to do, when we started phase II of the project, was to define a clear collection policy for the OER World Map, which should define which data to collect and which not. A clear scope,…
You’ve probably heard about Open Educational Resources & may have used some. The world of OERs is growing constantly, with more resources available daily.
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April 7, 2016 4:33 PM
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Defining 'open' in the context of education.
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