All Blog Posts Tagged 'content' (12)

This week is the 2012 Global Education Conference. It's free, it's online, and it's meant to connect educators and innovators all over the world! Open Tapestry's presentation, "…

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Mentor Cloud and Open Doors Group / College Open Textbooks Partner to

Facilitate Sharing Best Practices 

New Community to Share Best Practices and Facilitate Mentoring in the Open Education Community…

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Ellen Marie Murphy, Director of Online Curriculum from SUNY Empire State College is doing some research regarding the credentialing possibilities that exist for individuals who wish to receive credit

for learning they achieve using OpenCourseWare.



For those who are not familiar with OpenCourseWare, here is a link tothe OpenCourseWare Consortium.

Ellen would like you to take just a minute or so to answer…

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The Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education

(www.iskme.org)…

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 Irina Bokova, Director General of UNESCO will be officiating the launch of “Global Open Access Platform” (usually called the Global Open Access Portal) along with the launch of the UNESCO OER Platform, the re-designed Open Training Platform, and the OER policy Guidelines. The Launch is scheduled for November 1, 2011 at 6:30pm Paris time (GMT-1) and 10:30 am PDT and will be live-streamed in:

English - mms://…

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Thanks to Ruth Suehle, writer and editor in Brand Communications + Design at Red Hat for the notes.  I was busy finishing my slides for 11:30 presentation on College Open Textbooks' Adopter Communities during the keynote but I was listening :-)!…

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"The 20 Million Minds Foundation (20MM Foundation) announced a new digitally enhanced etextbook for college students based on open content. The non-profit has set its sight on producing open source etextbooks for the top 25 courses taken by undergraduates in the nation, with general statistics being one of largest of such courses.

Starting today, Collaborative Statistics 2nd Edition is now available and provides students with an interactive experience using videos, applets, graphics,…

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Don't miss the opportunity to share your expertise on Academic and Textbook Authoring.  Submit a proposal to TAA and you could be a speaker at their 2012 Conference.

Academic & Textbook Authoring—Evolving Arts is the theme of the…

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College Open Textbooks (COT) is pleased to announce the Adopter Communities Small Grant program.  The program will award small grants for research and related activities associated with the process of adopting open textbooks and aligned with the mission and goals of COT.  Applicants may request funds for such activities… Continue

Who is developing OERs? Who should be? How are they doing it? How can standards allow OER content interoperability? How can standards assure quality? How can you get started? How can you find the tools for creating OER content?



These questions, and more, will be answered by Dr. Rob Abel from IMS Global and others. In addition we will…

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College Open Textbooks (COT) is pleased to announce the Adopter Communities Small Grant program.  The program will award small grants for research and related activities associated with the process of adopting open textbooks and aligned with the mission and goals of COT.  Applicants may request…

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Great News! 

Education-Portal.com just announced the winners of their first annual OCW People’s Choice Awards, which honor the best of the Open Education Movement.   Over 4000 people voted for their best educational resources in this inaugural contest.

College Open Textbooks was recognized as the…

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