Showing posts with label oer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oer. Show all posts

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Upcoming July Issue

Here's a sneak peek of the upcoming July issue on Collaboration:

Evan Andrews from Sylvatica discusses open analysis methods, software, and data that can be used to help companies, the economy, and society become greener, faster.

Joseph Wilson from the Treehouse Group provides examples of how successful adaptation to market conditions comes from collaboration with people across traditionally demarcated fields of study.

Norm Friesen from Thompson Rivers University describes recent developments in the adaptation of open source and open content to educational practices and technologies.

Chris Tyler from Seneca College outline's Seneca's approach to sustainably involving students in open source communities that has proven successful in a course setting.

Andy Adler from Carleton University, John C. Nash from the University of Ottawa, and Sylvie Noël from the Communications Research Centre of Canada introduce TellTable, an open source system designed to allow single-user software applications to be managed in a collaborative manner.

Peter Deitz and Christine Egger from Social Actions describe how this organization applies open source principles to the its products and processes.

Stephen Huddart from the McConnell Foundation and Anil Patel of the Framework Foundation propose the concept of Applied Collaboration Studios to engender a quantum shift in the social sector’s efficiency, reach, and impact through the combined use of open source technologies, social process tools and collaboration platforms.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

OER Research

The Hewlett Foundation has partnered with IssueLab to create a comprehensive OER document repository named OER Research. Their FAQ describes the criteria and process for uploading OERs.

Several articles within the OSBR discuss OER:

Open Educational Resources introduces open content and open educational resources (OER), then compares OER and open source software, and finally discusses issues of OER project sustainability.

Conference Report: Open Education 2007 provides an overview of OER sustainability, localization, technological, legal and interoperability issues.

Why Give Knowledge Away for Free? The Case for Open Educational Resources discusses the reasons why more institutions and individuals are sharing digital learning resources openly and without cost, as open educational resources.

A Flat Network for the Unflat World: Open Educational Resources in Developing Countries explores OER's potential to expand access to education in developing countries.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Open Educational Resources

Yesterday's post was about the reasons why corporations embrace open source. Today's is about the reasons why educational institutions choose to give away their "product" (courses, knowledge, and research) for free.

Jan Hylen provides some answers in the appropriately named article
Why Give Knowledge Away for Free? The Case for Open Educational Resources. His article highlights the findings from a study carried out by the OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation and discusses the reasons for producing open content as well as the associated problems of licensing and sustainability. For further research into these problems, see the conference report on Open Education 2007 and Jordan Hatcher's article on the Open Data Commons Project.