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It was probably inevitable that any group of people who sought, however tentatively, to define “the rights, responsibilities, and possibilities for education in the globally connected world of the present and beyond” would find themselves accused of excluding important parties, of being “top-down,” and of hubris. Inside Higher Ed Full Article
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NEWS MEDIA CONTACT: January 18, 2013 Justin Cole, 202-418-8191 Email: justin.cole@fcc.gov FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski Issues Gigabit City Challenge To Providers, Local, And State Governments To Bring At Least One Ultra- Fast Gigabit Internet Community To Every State In U.S. By 2015 Washington, D.C. – Today at the U.S. Conference of Mayors […]
Digital textbooks, blended learning, brave new leadership and advancing student success. These are the topics to be addressed at ADEC’s twenty-fourth eLearning summit. Expert panels will share ideas while providing opportunities for attendees to discuss and explore possible solutions offered by online learning and technology. Speakers include K-12, community college, and university educators, as well […]
New multiplatform media property takes preschoolers on adventures and teaches foundational math concepts and skills PBS Press Release
Digital culture and the remix culture it has generated have changed the way in which knowledge and learning are constructed. The last decade since the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) launched the Open Courseware initiative (OCW) in 2002 has seen a significant increase in the number of initiatives related to Open Educational Resources (OER) and […]
This paper refers to the OERTest project and Open Educational Resources (OER) as support education materials that may be freely accessed, reused, modified and shared by anyone. In this paper we will try to answer the following question: how can the political conditions be created to foster an effective exchange of OERs between Higher Education […]
Australia’s major non-medical research funding organisation has adopted a new, open access policy that means the results of all the research it backs must be made freely available. This will require the published results to be deposited in an ‘open access institutional repository’ within 12 months of the date of publication in a journal. University […]
In the business of higher education, universities are standing in the way of professors and profits. EDTECH Focus on Higher Education Full Article
Little is known about the costs academic libraries incur to implement and manage institutional repositories and the value these institutional repositories offer to their communities. To address this, the authors report the findings of their 29 question survey of academic libraries with institutional repositories. We received 49 usable responses. Thirty-four of these responses completed the […]
“Openness” has emerged as one of the foremost themes in education, within which an open education movement has enthusiastically embraced digital technologies as the central means of participation and inclusion. Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have surfaced at the forefront of this development, claiming unprecedented educational reform. This paper provides […]