Category Archives: Open education

Open Content Licensing for Educators Workshop

Posted on December 12, 2011 by geoffcain

Image via CrunchBaseThis in from Cable Green: Creative Commons, the OER Foundation and Ako Aotearoa announce an international professional development opportunity for all educators. What: Open content licensing for educators workshop (#OCL4Ed)Where: OnlineWhen: 23 -27 January 2012Cost: Free Registration: Open … Continue reading →

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Open Ed Conf. Keynotes: Cable Green & Philipp Schmidt

Posted on October 27, 2011 by geoffcain

Image via CrunchBaseThe Obviousness of Open PolicySpeakers: Cable GreenThe Internet, increasingly affordable computing, open licensing, open access journals and open educational resources provide the foundation for a world in which a quality education can be a basic human right. Yet … Continue reading →

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Openness and Learning Analytics

Posted on October 26, 2011 by geoffcain

Image by nep via FlickrSpeakers: John Rinderle Norman BierRevise/Remix can build a 1000 points of OER light. Can these lights converge to fire authentic learning analytics & share-alike data models? Conventional wisdom in the OER community maintains that one of … Continue reading →

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Open Ed Conference – Keynote speakers Josh Jarrett & Jim Groom

Posted on October 26, 2011 by geoffcain

Josh Jarrett at discussing “Access is Not Enough.”Challenges from here to 2020 Warning: raw notes ahead! Three challenges for the OER community Four Challenges for the Next decade Completion  Quality Funding Demographics  Higher ed tuition has gone up over 400%. … Continue reading →

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Open Ed Conference: From Shared to Open: The evolution of open education in Washington State

Posted on October 25, 2011 by geoffcain

Image by textbookrebellion Speakers: Tom Caswell  & Connie Broughton Learn how Washington’s colleges went from a few system shared courses in 1997 to developing 81 courses as part of the Open Course Library. Washington’s State Board for Community and Technical Colleges … Continue reading →

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The Open Course Library: Bridging the gap between the LMS and OCW

Posted on October 25, 2011 by geoffcain

Speakers: Tom Caswell & Connie Broughton We will share the Open Course Library project, including technical & professional development challenges faced as we developed phase 1. The goal of the Open Course Library is for faculty to design digital, openly … Continue reading →

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Open Ed Conference: Towards an aggregated profile of the Global OER and OCW audience

Posted on October 25, 2011 by geoffcain

Speakers Mary Lou Forward, Meena Hwang and Una Daly Developing a profile of our global audience through aggregated surveys of OER and OCW users worldwide. What are the demographics of those looking of open education resources and open courses? based … Continue reading →

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Open Ed Conference: “Which License for OER?”

Posted on October 25, 2011 by geoffcain

Image by kool_skatkat via FlickrSpeakers: Ahrash Bissell, Gary Lopez, Philipp Schmidt Tired of the never-ending debate about “Which license for OER?” We agree! Perhaps we should talk about “Which assets” instead. For too many projects, and for too long, the … Continue reading →

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Creative Commons Positions: Senior Project Manager & Senior Project Analyst

Posted on September 15, 2011 by geoffcain

Image via CrunchBasehttp://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/29046 Creative Commons is seeking highly motivated and organized individuals to fill two positions: Senior Project Manager and Senior Project Analyst.  Both positions are full-time with full benefits. Both positions will key members of the team supporting Department of Labor TAACCCT grantees. Ideal … Continue reading →

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OERs: Creating Assignments with Public Domain Documents

Posted on July 29, 2011 by geoffcain

Image via WikipediaWhile working on the Kaleidoscope Project (assisting faculty at eight colleges develop courses that implement open education resources or open textbooks), I have run into interesting instructional design challenges with creating assignments using materials that were written a … Continue reading →

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