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Elizabeth E Charles
April 6, 2016 4:47 PM
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Since 1999, NASA has used ASTER (Japan's Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) to gather images of the Earth's surface, providing a way to 'map and monitor the changing surface of our planet.' They've mapped 99% of the planet's surface over the years, generating nearly three million images, showing all kinds of things -- 'from massive scars across the Oklahoma landscape from an EF-5 tornado and the devastating aftermath of flooding in Pakistan, to volcanic eruptions in Iceland and wildfires in California.'
And now, NASA is letting the public download and use those images at no cost.
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Elizabeth E Charles
April 4, 2016 7:45 AM
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Today marks the start of another chapter on the UK’s road to open access (OA). This is the date when the UK education funding councils’ post-2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) OA policy comes into effect.
Description by EdSurge HigherEd "A collection of shareable OER course materials, including readings, syllabuses, activities and assessments built and managed by faculty-librarian-course designer teams through the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges."
Via Jim Lerman, Mark E. Deschaine, PhD, Elizabeth E Charles
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from Box of delight
March 17, 2016 11:10 AM
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Explore historical Open University images contained in the Open University Digital Archive.
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from Daily Magazine
March 16, 2016 12:31 PM
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Molecular biologists and neuroscientists are tweeting with the hashtag #ASAPbio in protest of a system that keeps research from being shared with the public, typically for more than six months.
Via THE OFFICIAL ANDREASCY
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Elizabeth E Charles
March 12, 2016 12:35 PM
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My keynote at the #RIDE2016 research conference – Research and Innovation in Distance Education and E-Learning, at the Centre for Distance Education, which took place on Friday 11 March 2016 at Senate House, University of London, focused on Open Badges as the missing link in Open Education. My aim was to view Mozilla Open Badges in a wider context…
Our projects are free to access by any educator. They feature real-life learning, motivating challenges and digital badges!
Click on one below to see our Badge projects in action. Organisations can work with us to create their own badge programmes to develop skills and connect people with opportunity.
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Elizabeth E Charles
March 7, 2016 4:00 AM
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Want to know about EDUPUB? Check EDUPUB, a new ePub3 profile that adds standards to ePub3 so it can be used for advanced learning.
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Elizabeth E Charles
March 4, 2016 11:39 AM
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Open Data as Open Educational Resources: Towards Transversal Skills and Global Citizenship
Open Data is the name given to datasets which have been generated by international organisations, governments, NGOs and academic researchers, and made freely available online and openly-licensed. These datasets can be used by educators as Open Educational Resources (OER) to support different teaching and learning activities, allowing students to gain experience working with the same raw data researchers and policy-makers generate and use. In this way, educators can facilitate students to understand how information is generated, processed, analysed and interpreted. This paper offers an initial exploration of ways in which the use of Open Data can be key in the development of transversal skills (including digital and data literacies, alongside skills for critical thinking, research, teamwork, and global citizenship), enhancing students’ abilities to understand and select information sources, to work with, curate, analyse and interpret data, and to conduct and evaluate research. This paper also presents results of an exploratory survey that can guide further research into Open Data-led learning activities. Our goal is to support educators in empowering students to engage, critically and collaboratively, as 21st century global citizens.
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Elizabeth E Charles
March 2, 2016 1:33 PM
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Professor Sonia Livingstone shares her thoughts on the LSE’s institutional repository, LSE Research Online (LSERO). Since 2010, content in LSERO has received over six million downloads. For 2015, i…
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Elizabeth E Charles
March 1, 2016 2:26 PM
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Data, research and country reviews on innovation including innovation in science and technology, research and knowledge management, public sector innovation and e-government., Education is the key to economic, social and environmental progress, and...
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Elizabeth E Charles
February 27, 2016 11:35 AM
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Empowering every student to achieve more. Technology allows us to dream of what the future of education could be. Learning is changing and students today need to be able to collaborate, communicate and demonstrate flexibility in how they solve problems in order to thrive and achieve their goals.
At Microsoft, we believe providing quality education to the 1.4 billion students around the world is essential to the future of our society. Effective, immersive learning experiences inspire students to demonstrate creative thinking. The right technology can empower education, inspire learning anywhere, and unlock the potential of students, educators, and schools. To make this technology available worldwide we partner with education communities, delivering solutions, services and programs that enhance learning and school management.
Microsoft in education empowers educators to:
• Inspire students to create and demonstrate critical thinking
• Learn anytime, anywhere
• Prepare students for their futures
• Transform and modernize schools and college campuses
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Elizabeth E Charles
February 26, 2016 12:13 PM
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Update on the percentage of #openaccess journals that charge no fees.
For years I've been saying that about 70% of the journals listed in the +Directory… - Peter Suber - Google+
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Elizabeth E Charles
April 4, 2016 7:48 AM
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Pros and Cons of Using OERs for Instruction
As with any educational resource, there are both advantages and disadvantages associated with using OERs in the classroom.
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Elizabeth E Charles
March 30, 2016 8:32 PM
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Open data is the idea that some data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data My first experience with open data was in the year 2010. I wanted to create a better app for Bicing, the local bike sharing system…
Discover our mission Why do we need a nonprofit search engine at all? Understand our values What makes us different: radical transparency, independence, ... Frequently Asked Questions What about spam? Do you accept donations? User Interface Demo Our first prototype search engine, with partial results. Current status & Roadmap Check the state of the project and what's next for us How to contribute We welcome developers, designers, testers and more! Data sources Where do our results come from? Discussion forums Join the community and give your feedback on the project!
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Elizabeth E Charles
March 17, 2016 10:14 AM
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Portal for open access research theses. DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses.
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Elizabeth E Charles
March 15, 2016 3:45 PM
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Advance your knowledge without spending a cent.
Whether you want to excel at work or just adopt a new hobby, you'll need to learn some new skills to reach your goals. Learning new skills can keep your mind sharp as you age and open you up to a whole new world of possibilities. The good news: You don't have to spend a lot of money for a teacher or coach to learn that new skill set – you'll find several free resources online to support your new endeavor.
This week we launched the Open Badge Network (OBN) portal. Open Badge Network is an Erasmus + project and strategic partnership which brings together organisations from across Europe to support the development of an Open Badge ecosystem, promoting the use of Open Badges to recognise non-formal and informal learning. Our mission is to provide a trusted…
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Elizabeth E Charles
March 10, 2016 4:08 PM
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Containing more than 500 open datasets, GeoHub lets users access the wealth of data Los Angeles makes available. The tool is also intended to help employees from different city departments work together.
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Elizabeth E Charles
March 5, 2016 9:00 AM
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The financial shift from subscribers to authors will have long term and potentially positive effects on peer-reviewed scientific and medical reporting.
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Elizabeth E Charles
March 4, 2016 10:59 AM
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In keeping with the ethos of open education, the OER conferences have always made an effort to be as diverse, inclusive and, well, open as possible and OER16 Open Culture is no exception.
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Elizabeth E Charles
March 2, 2016 1:09 PM
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Open learning has been a hot topic in learning technology circles for some time, between the movements for open educational resources (OER) and open courseware (OCW) and open access (OA) to research and data.
PARTICIPATION MEDAL: Participate Learning has launched #ParticipateOER, an initiative on Twitter that allows teachers to submit open educational resources to the Learning Registry via Twitter. The hashtag comes as a part of the #GoOpen campaign encouraging states, school districts and educators to u
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Elizabeth E Charles
February 26, 2016 2:56 PM
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Today we're honored to welcome TJ Bliss, Program Officer, Education at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to share with us the learning the Foundation has garnered in over 15 years of supporting open educational resource projects. Thank you, TJ for sharing how to scale OER with your cooperative! The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation…
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