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Working Groups. Literature Open Resources. History Open Resources. How really relevant and practical are Open Educational Resources?: A case for a little humility about the potential. Open Learning Recognition: Taking Open Educational Resources a Step Further. This book presents the main outcomes of the OERtest project in six chapters.
It provides the reader with the foundation for the development of envisaged framework, organised into the four topics: assessment methods; requirements and standards of resources; credentialisation, certification and recognition and inter-institutional collaboration. The 12 Learning Principles Video Games Promote. I am presently reading a book called What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy. Visual storytelling: 14 tools for journalists. Credit: Image by TapiF on Flickr. Some rights reserved Over the past year here at Journalism.co.uk we have reported on a number of new tools and platforms which have been launched or updated, which offer journalists different ways of telling stories visually. Our news:rewired events have also highlighted a number of those tools, most recently in a dedicated session on visual storytelling at news:rewired - digital stories, which was held last Thursday (6 December).
Here is a list of just 14 tools that journalists might find useful. Some launched this year, while others have been around for some time now but continue to be used by news outlets today. Royalty Free Images for Commercial Use & Educational Resources. Free Stock Image Gallery Main Page. Our Collection now contains more than 16,000 Stock photos, 90 Gallery Indexes Main Image CATEGORIES Browse more of our favourite freeimages from a growing collection of 11,000+ images on freeimageslive: +Bonus 1000 free images Exclusively for our Members Free Image Use All images on freeimages.co.uk are free to use on websites, printed designs or electronic media.
Images in the Space Planets Stars Gallery are Public Domain - Please read terms in that gallery for license details. Ten years on from the Budapest Open Access Initiative: setting the default to open. Prologue: The Budapest Open Access Initiative after 10 years Ten years ago the Budapest Open Access Initiative launched a worldwide campaign for open access (OA) to all new peer-reviewed research.
It didn’t invent the idea of OA. On the contrary, it deliberately drew together existing projects to explore how they might “work together to achieve broader, deeper, and faster success.” But the BOAI was the first initiative to use the term “open access” for this purpose, the first to articulate a public definition, the first to propose complementary strategies for realizing OA, the first to generalize the call for OA to all disciplines and countries, and the first to be accompanied by significant funding. Today we’re no longer at the beginning of this worldwide campaign, and not yet at the end. UH - Digital History. Creative Commons, Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Policy (webinar recording made in elluminate) General information about CK-12. 4 Challenges for OER in Higher Education. Open Resources | Feature 4 Challenges for OER in Higher Education Key challenges are emerging with the growing use of open educational resources in higher education.
To find out just what those challenges are and how colleges and universities are overcoming them, Campus Technology spoke with two experts on the subject. By Bridget McCrea06/26/12 Accustomed to using textbooks, pre-developed assessments, and other standard materials in their classrooms, today's college professors are using more open educational resources (OER) than ever. Here are four professional development areas all higher education OER champions should pay attention to--and a few good tips for working around the issues: There are too many resources to choose from.
OER World Map: an example for discussion. Digital Textbook Legislation Signed in California. By News Staff on September 27, 2012 California's three higher education systems will start collaborating on open-source digital textbooks now that Gov.
Jerry Brown signed two bills on Thursday, Sept. 27. In 2013, students will start seeing the first of 50 digital textbooks for common courses across the University of California, the California State University and the California Community Colleges. Once members are appointed to the California Open Education Resources Council, they will start choosing the 50 courses that they need to find or create digital content for.
These digital textbooks will have an open license and be made available to students at no cost. Brown signed six education bills in his office as he talked with California college students. You may use or reference this story with attribution and a link to. Mapping the landscape of Open Educational Resources institutional initiatives. Over the past decade, there have been more and more initiatives in more and more countries.
It has become difficult to have a sense of the OER landscape. As we seek to explain Open Educational Resources to stakeholders, as we seek to connect with others and as we seek to learn from the experience of others, we might find useful a picture of the OER world – a global map of institutional (and perhaps national) initiatives as a starting point. Over time, an “OER World Map” could be enhanced as the community wished and found feasible. Maps can be effective in immediately communicating a message. Widening Participation through Open Educational Resources. The Open Source Definition (Annotated) Version 1.9 The indented, italicized sections below appear as annotations to the Open Source Definition (OSD) and are not a part of the OSD.
A plain version of the OSD without annotations can be found here. Open source doesn't just mean access to the source code. OER Commons. OER university. Khan Academy. Learning for everyone, by everyone, about almost anything. Saylor Foundation's Free Courses Offer Path to Credit. The Saylor Foundation has nearly finished creating a full suite of free, online courses in a dozen popular undergraduate majors.
And the foundation is now offering a path to college credit for its offerings by partnering with two nontraditional players in higher education – Excelsior College and StraighterLine. The project started three years ago, when the foundation began hiring faculty members on a contract basis to build courses within their subject areas. Biology 101 - The Study of Living Things. 3.5 CEUs :: 35 Contact Hours :: Self-Paced :: Instructor-Led :: 6 Month Subscription Biology, the science of life, concentrates on the structure, function, distribution, adaptation, interactions, origins and evolution of living organisms, a grouping which encapsulates both plants and animals.
Biology 101 will encompass the principles of biology that include the structure and function of the cell to the complexities of current Ecological issues. Topics will include: Methods of Biological Studies, Chemistry Fundamentals, Cell Biology, The Study of Genetics (Heredity and Molecular), Origin and Principles of Evolution, the Dynamics of Populations, Ecosystem Structures and other Ecology Topics. This course is an excellent learning resource for the college or pre-college student.
This logical and easy to understand class is divided into self-paced lessons, complimented with well-written text, diagrams, critical-thinking assignments and end of lesson review exams. OER Myths. A number of myths perpetuate about Open Educational Resources.
This section of the infoKit aims to explain and dispel some of them. UKOER myths The JISC CETIS team have established a page around OER myths for the JISC/Academy Pilot Programmme: OER release. The sharing myth JISC has commissioned a number of studies into the 'sharing' of learning and teaching resources (Community Dimensions of Learning Object Repositories CD LOR, Trust in Digital Repositories TRUST DR, WM-Share, RepoMMan, Rights and Rewards survey, Sharing e-learning content, Good Intentions report) and also funded a series of projects focussed on 'exchange'of learning resources (Exchange for Learning Programme (X4L). When we use the word sharing we usually imply an intent – where someone, or some organisation, chooses to share something of value with either a specific audience or more widely.