Category Archives: OER

Beyond MOOC Hyperbole with Siva Vaidhyanathan

Posted on October 12, 2012 by geoffcain

These are my notes on “Beyond MOOC Hyperbole: Why We Should Support MOOC Experimentation…Critically and Carefully.” This was a presentation hosted by Dave Cormier and presented by Siva Vaidhyanathan for our MOOC “The Current and Future State of Higher Education … Continue reading →

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Jerry Brown Unlocks the Nation’s Digital Future through Open Source Textbook Innovation

Posted on September 28, 2012 by geoffcain

(Photo credit: Wikipedia) Today, Governor Jerry Brown signed a monumental set of bills that create the nation’s first free online textbook library, an effort aimed at alleviating the burden of rising costs to students attending California’s public postsecondary institutions. California … Continue reading →

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OERs at College of the Redwoods

Posted on September 27, 2012 by geoffcain

These are the slides from my part of presentation “OER Adopter Communities: the Sustainability Factor in Open Education“: Related articles Implementing OERs and Open Textbooks (cain.blogspot.com) OERs and Biology at Collge of the Redwoods (cain.blogspot.com) OER Types, Topics, and Licensing … Continue reading →

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Keeping Open Education Resources Open

Posted on September 27, 2012 by geoffcain

 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) What does the “open” in “open education resources” mean? What it should mean is free to reuse, remix and share. If your open education resources are locked up with a proprietary platform, they are no longer open. … Continue reading →

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OER Adopter Communities: the Sustainability Factor in Open Education

Posted on September 19, 2012 by geoffcain

Open Textbooks from the Open Course Library (Photo credit: caswell_tom) Una Daly has invited you to the event ‘September 25 OER Adopter Communities: the Sustainability Factor in Open Education’ on College Open Textbooks Community! Check out the entire Fall 2012 … Continue reading →

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Implementing OERs and Open Textbooks

Posted on August 22, 2012 by geoffcain

The Engineering Building at the University of Leicester. Designed by James Stirling.(Wikipedia) There is still a lot of energy out there around the creation of open content and the licensing of existing content with open licences. There are many worthwhile … Continue reading →

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Parallels in Open Software and Open Textbooks

Posted on August 10, 2012 by geoffcain

Dr. Cable Green speaking to Creative Commons staff (Photo credit: tvol) I was reading this morning about what makes a successful open source project and what makes one not so successful, and I found a number of parallels between successful … Continue reading →

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Nine Essential MOOC Links

Posted on August 1, 2012 by geoffcain

George Siemens at TEDxNYED. (Wikipedia) A few of us from today’s NGLC presentation “MOOCs: open online courses as levers for change in higher education” by George Siemens on MOOCs were passing around a few URLs, and I thought it would … Continue reading →

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Open Content Licensing for Educators Workshop

Posted on June 1, 2012 by geoffcain

Image via CrunchBase This is from Cable Green:  2012 is a significant year for open education and OER. We are celebrating 10 years since UNESCO coined the term “Open Educational Resources”. In joining the global celebrations, the OER Foundation will host … Continue reading →

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OER: Indigenous People’s Reader

Posted on May 15, 2012 by geoffcain

Jacqui Cain has edited a reader for developmental English classes that includes indigenous people’s stories from around the world: stories translated from oral traditions. She did this presentation for the 2012 Online Teaching Conference which starts in June as part … Continue reading →

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