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Open Education Week: Use #openeducationwk to follow the activities
Use #openeducationwk to follow the activities
Open Education Week’s goal is to raise awareness about free and open educational opportunities that exist for everyone, everywhere, right now.
Source: Open Education Week
OET Tech Talk: What it takes to #GoOpen, a conversation with district leaders – Google+
Online talk tomorrow with school district leader on using open access materials.
Source: OET Tech Talk
BBC Academy – Filmmaking for the Web: a new online course open to all
Open educational resources perceived as high quality, even though faculty awareness lags
Learning Resource Metadata Initiative: using schema.org to describe open educational resources
Link “paper discusses the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI), an international project that aims to facilitate the discovery of educational resources through the use of embedded metadata that can be used by search engines (e.g. Google, Yahoo, Bing, Yandex) to refine the search services they offer.“
Why open access should be a key issue for university leaders | Guardian
Open Educational Resource university to be launched worldwide
Open Educational Resource university to be launched worldwide –” This UNESCO project allow students to take courses based on OER and then pay a fee to have them accepted for credit by the 30 universities participating in the consortium.“
Big History Project released for K12
Big History Project: ” Yesterday the Bill Gates supported Big History Project opened the free online class for K12 education. It’s an attempt to tell a compressed history of the world since the Big Bang through what historian David Christian calls Thresholds, major transition in the universe (e.g., creation of stars) and on earth (e.g,, appearance of agriculture). It’s unique in it’s approach to history in that it breaks the eurocentric humancentric traditional approaches. Christian endeavors to bring history to science. It is symptomatic of a society trying to find ways to continually condense the huge amount of knowledge that are being generated and communicated on a daily basis (See Big Data ).”
Internet Freedom Fighters Build a Shadow Web: Scientific American
Internet Freedom Fighters Build a Shadow Web: Scientific American: “Governments and corporations have more control over the Internet than ever. Now digital activists want to build an alternative network that can never be blocked, filtered or shut down”