Category: Education
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Research on TESS-India localisation reported at OCWC Global 2014
OER ResearchHub Fellow Leigh-Anne Perryman, TESS-India Technical Director Tim Seal and TESS-India Researcher Alison Hemmings-Buckler presented a paper on OER localisation at the OCWC Global conference in LjubLjana, Slovenia this week. Here are our slides. The presentation notes are here.
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Researching open collaboration in the world's smallest states
Did you know that 2014 is the United Nations International Year of Small Island Developing States? The United Nations is celebrating small island developing states (SIDS), of which there are 32 globally, for their ‘vibrant and distinct cultures, diversity and heritage’ and for their people being ‘at the forefront of efforts to…
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The Scottish Open Education Declaration
Scottish followers (and others) are likely to be interested in this crowd-sourced statement of principle which attempts to build on the Paris OER Declaration of 2012. It expresses support for open education at all levels of governance in order to build a complete ecosystem for open education.
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OER + Open Badges
2013 was a year of tremendous growth for Mozilla’s Open Badges. We launched OBI 1.0. We worked with other terrific organizations to build and launch the first city-wide badge initiative, Chicago Summer of Learning. Along with other partners such as MacArthur and HASTAC, we made a 3 year commitment at Clinton…
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A search guide for quality OER
I wonder how useful people find this kind of Amazon style ratings system for OER…
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Public Access to Publicly Funded Materials: What Could Be
Here’s a reblog that’s worth checking out. OER Research Hub fellow Bill Meinke makes the case for open models of research, dissemination and education with the help of some nice (although possibly a bit contentious) graphics to explain the potential benefits of open policies. Public Access to Publicly Funded Materials:…
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Educating in Beta
Current activity within open education can be characterised as having reached a beta phase of maturity. In much the same way that software progresses through a release life cycle, beta is the penultimate testing phase, after the initial alpha-testing phase, whereby the software is adopted beyond its original developer community.…