Open Education
‘Why Open Education Matters’ Video Competition Winners
The Why Open Education Matters video competition was launched in March 2012 calling for creative videos that clearly explain the use and potential of free Open Educational Resources (“OER”). The winners were announced this week. Many congratulations to the the winners: @blinktower
We are ludicrously excited to announce that we won 1st prize in the Why Open Ed Matters Video competition! bit.ly/NVeTxU
— Blink Tower (@blinktower) July 18, 2012
‘Copyright is Essential’ – Lawrence Lessig talking @ UNESCO
Lawrence @Lessig spoke recently at the UNESCO 2012 World Open Educational Resources Congress in Paris.
Lawrence Lessig. Photo by Harry Metcaffe
The talk emphasised the importance of copyright. Some key quotes from the talk include:
Copyright is essential for its purpose.I am against abolitionism… I think copyright is essential.
Khan Academy on @BBCClick
Khan Academy, the non-profit online educational video site has been featured by @BBCClick in this interesting short video about Khan and the ‘flipped classroom‘
Salman Khan with Bill Gates, photo by Steve Jurvetson
A few memorable quotes from the video include: Read More…
Innovation in Open Networks
This is a great talk by Director of @medialab and @creativecommons Chair @Joi Ito, given recently at the @NMCorg summer conference. Many subjects are covered in the talk including the decreasing cost of innovation, education and learning, harnessing networks, open data and open hardware. Read More…
Adding Creative Commons to RSS Feeds
This is a guest post by @mhawksey. Martin Hawksey is a Learning Technology Advisor for the JISC funded Centre for Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards (JISC CETIS). The majority of his work is focused on supporting the UK’s Open Educational Resources Programme.
OpenAttribute: Making Creative Commons Attribution Easier
This is a guest post by @patlockley, one of the team members of the Open Attribute project.
Creative Commons licensed content is awesome, and everywhere—from Flickr, to Wikipedia, to your favourite library. Attributing it properly, and telling people how to attribute it properly can be difficult and confusing. The first rule for re-using openly licensed content is that you have to properly attribute the creator. Read More…
A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources (OER)
This is a guest post by James Burke
A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources (OER) from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Commonwealth of Learning (COL):
This Guide comprises three sections: Read More…
Youth and Open Educational Resources
This is a great video from @youthandmedia which is a @berkmancenter project on how young people are learning online using and creating open resources.
One of the learners talks about how her school doesn’t approve of Wikipedia but she uses it as a starting point and uses the references from the Wikiepedia article to carry out further research and study. Read More…