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[article] An OER manifesto in twenty minutes
[course] Teaching Copyright
EFF’s Teaching Copyright curriculum was created to help teachers present the laws surrounding digital rights in a balanced way.
Teaching Copyright provides lessons and ideas for opening your classroom up to discussion, letting your students express their ideas and concerns, and then guiding your students toward an understanding of the boundaries of copyright law.
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[course] OU: Creating open educational resources
Are you interested in creating your own open educational resources? This unit will help you to write a learning unit and provide you with links to various resources for open-learning materials. You will learn about the different purposes of self-instruction and receive advice about the techniques and strategies to help the learner.
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[course] Open Course on P2PU: DIY U – Getting Started With Self Learning
DIY U – Getting Started With Self Learning
by Anya Kamenetz & Alison Jean Cole of P2PU
Starting August 30
It’s based on the Anyas Edupunks’ Guide. The goal: create and share a personal learning plan and find others who can help you on your learning journey.
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[link] UOC UNESCO Chair in e-Learning: #MetaOER Project
#MetaOER is a project of the UOC UNESCO Chair in e-Learning devoted to the promotion and awareness of the Open Educational Resources (OER), using Social Tagging to identify key open resources on open educational resources and create a basic collection with them in an Open Repository. The final stage of the project consists on creating [...]
[course] SCoPE-Seminar: Designing OERu Credentials
[ 29. August 2011; 00:00; ] SCoPE-Seminar: Designing OERu Credentials
As a follow on to the February, 2011 Open Educational Resource University discussion, this 2-week seminar explores the design of credentials to support a new way of thinking about post secondary models. With Paul Stacey & Wayne Mackintosh
29.08.-13.09.2011
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[webinar] Using Openness to Bridge to Success
[ 23. August 2011; 19:00 bis 20:00. ] Using Openness to Bridge to Success
by Patrick McAndrew, Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University
Tuesday, 23.08.2011
19:00-20:00 CEST
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[webinar] OER Publishing Platform: NIXTY
[ 30. August 2011; 16:00 bis 17:00. ] OER Publishing Platform: NIXTY
by OCW Consortium
Glendon Moriarty will show us around the NIXTY platform, which is suitable for individuals interested in creating a page for their course materials without the challenge of creating a institutional site. NIXTY offers a variety of functions that incorporate social networking and customized learning management.
Tuesday, 30.08.2011
16:00-17:00 CEST
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[webinar] OER Publishing Platform: eduCommons
[ 24. August 2011; 16:00 bis 17:00. ] OER Publishing Platform: eduCommons
by OCW Consortium
Brent Lambert will give a presentation on the new, improved version of eduCommons. Because many of our members use eduCommons, there were quite a few requests at the Global Meeting for the development of functions to accommodate new developments in opencourseware. We will hear about how eduCommons plans to better [...]
[webinar] OER Publishing Platform: OERbit
[ 19. August 2011; 16:00 bis 17:00. ] OER Publishing Platform: OERbit
by OCW Consortium
Dave Malicke, Open Education Specialist from the Open.Michigan team give a presentation on OERbit. OERbit is a content management system based on Drupal and won the Technical Innovation Award in the first Awards for OpenCourseWare Excellence. Dave will present the major functions of OERbit and compare it with some other [...]
[ebook] Stephen Downes: Free Learning – Essays on open educational resources and copyright
Stephen Downes: Free Learning – Essays on open educational resources and copyright
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[ebook] Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge
In the book’s 30 essays, prominent leaders and thinkers in the open education movement reflect on current and past open education initiatives, offer critical analyses, share the strategic underpinnings of their own work, and delve into open education’s implications in three areas: technology, content, and knowledge.
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[link] P2PU & Mozilla: Open Badges Project Page
P2PU & Mozilla: An open platform that will enable anyone to issue, collect and display badges. Providing learners with new ways to get public recognition for their skills and achievements.
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[presentation] Making education more open by Andy Lane, York July 2011
Presentation given at SCORE Introduction to OER at York, 27th July 2011…
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[presentation] Open for learning workshop SCORE in July 2011, by Stephen Stapleton
Background – Understanding OERs: What are Open Educational Resources (OERs)
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[link] OPAL OER case studies – Cloudworks
This cloudscape has been set up as a space for the OER case studies that have been gathered as part of the OPAL project. The case studies were collated as part of Work Package 3 Deliverable D3.1 ‘Scope of desk research & case study identification’, which consisted of a review of 58 case studies of [...]
[link] Virtual Training Suite – Developing Internet research skills
A set of free Internet tutorials to help you develop Internet research skills for your university course.
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[course] New MOOC: Pedagogy First! Program for Online Teaching’s Certificate Class for 2011-12
Lisa Lane, a veteran of several MOOCs is launching a MOOC stating in September on the subject of online pedagogy.
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[link] OER university: Diploma of Arts – Anchor Partner Participation Scenario
- Proposes a Diploma of Arts as the inaugural credential for the OERu
- Sketches an anchor partner participation scenario
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[link] Australian Flexible Learning Framework, supporting e-learning opportunities
- web based, freely available learning objects with a liberal copyright regime supported by great repository infrastructure
- ugly interface, but very useful repository
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[link] OCW Consortium – Toolkit initiative
The OCW Toolkit Initiative seeks to collect in one place a portable kit of resources that have proven useful in getting OCW projects off the ground at a variety of institutions. From tips on making the OCW case to IP management software, what are the necessary implements, and how can we get them into the [...]
[ebook] Jennifer Parker: Mobile Learning Toolkit
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