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Category Archives: Open Educational Resources

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  Harvard, MIT Partner to Provide Free Courses through edX

  Source: THE Journal

  May 2, 2012

  Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have partnered to launch edX, an initiative to offer free online courses worldwide and develop an open source platform to deliver them. The platform developed for MITx, an…

  Related To: Assessment & Curriculum, E-Learning, Higher Education, ICT in Education, Open Educational Resources, Primary/Secondary Education, Teaching & Learning

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  Britain Announces Plan to Make Publicly Financed Research Freely Available

  Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education

  May 2, 2012

  Throwing its weight behind open access, the British government has declared it wants to make all research paid for with public money freely available online. If it succeeds, the move is likely to have significant consequences…

  Related To: Higher Education, Open Educational Resources, Research, Teaching & Learning

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  Google Launches New Search Education Site with Lesson Plans

  Source: KQED MindShift

  May 2, 2012

  Google has launched a new site called Search Education aimed at educators who want to teach online search strategies. The site includes lesson plans geared at different levels of expertise, as well as training videos that walk through different…

  Related To: ICT in Education, Open Educational Resources, Professional Development, Teaching & Learning

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  Online-Education Start-Up Teams with Top-Ranked Universities to Offer Free Courses

  Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education

  Apr 18, 2012

  Last fall, Stanford computer-science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller helped create an online course-hosting platform that opened some of the university’s classes to the world. Coursera, the start-up company that grew out of that effort,…

  Related To: E-Learning, Higher Education, ICT in Education, Open Educational Resources, Teaching & Learning

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  UNESCO World Open Educational Resources Congress

  Jun 20 - Jun 22, 2012

  UNESCO’s first World Open Educational Resources (OER) Congress aims to influence educational planning worldwide and to encourage governments to support the development and use of OER. The specific objectives of the Congress are: Showcase the world’s best…

  Related To: Open Educational Resources, Policy & Governance, Research, Teaching & Learning

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  Open Education Week

  Mar 5 - Mar 10, 2012

  Open Education Week takes place online and in locally hosted events around the world. The objective is to raise awareness of the open education movement and open educational resources. Organized by the Open Courseware Consortium aims…

  Related To: ICT in Education, Open Educational Resources, Teaching & Learning

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  Apple No Longer Claims to Own Your Content on iBooks

  Source: Mashable

  Feb 6, 2012

  Apple has updated the End User Licensing Agreement (EULA) for its iBooks Author app, clarifying its terms and ownership conditions. Immediately after its release, the EULA for iBooks Author was criticized by technology writers and copyright analysts….

  Related To: Assessment & Curriculum, ICT in Education, Open Educational Resources, Teaching & Learning

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  350,000 Textbooks Downloaded from Apple’s iBooks in Three Days

  Source: AllThingsD

  Jan 23, 2012

  Apple’s new textbook initiative appears to be gaining momentum quickly. More than 350,000 textbooks were downloaded from the company’s iBooks Store within the first three days of availability, although a number of these may have been free…

  Related To: ICT in Education, Open Educational Resources, Teaching & Learning

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