Category Archives: Open education

OERs and the Next Stage of Open Textbooks

Posted on July 8, 2011 by geoffcain

By rubyblossom. via FlickrThere are some exciting things happening in the world of open education resources and open textbooks. I have worked in the recent past on projects that create or find open education resources, participated in presentations on open textbooks, … Continue reading →

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Hubris 2.0: OERs, Publishers, and Federal Money

Posted on May 27, 2011 by geoffcain

Image via WikipediaIn “Publishers Criticize Federal Investment in Open Education Resources” a nice little article in the Chronicle of Higher Ed this week, Blackboard lets us know that the sky is falling because of government funding of open education resources … Continue reading →

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OER: The Myth of Commercial Textbook Reliability

Posted on March 19, 2011 by geoffcain

Image via WikipediaAn “OER” is an open education resource and the most common example is an open textbook. An open textbook is a book, most often electronic, that is licensed in a way that allows re-use, repurposing, editing, and republishing. … Continue reading →

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OER University: history in the making

Posted on February 22, 2011 by geoffcain

Image via Wikipedia I am in an exciting meeting today on the OER university. There were a few dozen participating in New Zealand and 47 virtual participants. If you are not familiar with this concept OERs are “open education resources.” … Continue reading →

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Towards an OER University: Free learning for all students worldwide

Posted on February 16, 2011 by geoffcain

Image via Wikipedia This is from Cable Green’s blog: Universities in Australia, Canada and New Zealand are hoping to achieve “a quantum shift” in higher education access by launching an “OER university”. (article) Concept is: http://wikieducator.org/OER_University There is an open meeting (all are … Continue reading →

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OER, Open Textbooks, and Innovation

Posted on January 22, 2011 by geoffcain

Image via WikipediaIn a recent blog posting from Cable Green, he posted a note on the new grant from the Dept. of Labor which is requiring an open license on all materials built for the grant, which means that the … Continue reading →

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Open Education Resources Require Open Teaching

Posted on October 24, 2010 by geoffcain

Image via WikipediaI have been reading though the Open eLearning Content Observatory Services “Roadmap 2012” and there are some very important points made in the report: “OER are understood to be an important element of policies that want to leverage … Continue reading →

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MIT, Yale, and other Barriers to Education

Posted on July 1, 2010 by geoffcain

Image via Wikipedia Ben Wildavsky wrote an article in the Chronicle of Higher Ed called “Is Globally Democratized Learning Always a Good Thing?” I went there to comment, but I set off their curmudgeon filter. It now says Threat Level … Continue reading →

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