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Tag: open ed
"Open Education" ccSalon Video Now Online!
by allison UncategorizedIn case you missed this week’s Creative Commons Salon in San Francisco, you can now view it online thanks to our media sponsor, VidSF, who filmed and broadcast the event. We heard from four stellar individuals involved in transforming the education landscape through the power of the internet and digital tools, such as open educational…
Tune in LIVE to tonight's ccSalon at 7pm PDT
by allison UncategorizedCan’t make it to tonight’s Creative Commons Salon in San Francisco? No problem! You’ll be able to tune in virtually thanks to the talented and generous folks at VidSF, our media sponsors for the event. Watch the salon live at http://parisoma.com from 7-9pm PDT. Use Identi.ca or Twitter to join the conversation with hashtag #ccsalon.…
Reminder: ccSalon SF next Monday (5/3), on Power of Open Education
by allison UncategorizedJoin us at what’s sure to be a stellar Creative Commons Salon next Monday, on the power of open education. Bring a friend, come meet CC staff, and enjoy a refreshment as we explore the challenges facing the future of learning and how to harness the power of the internet and digital technologies as forces…
The Shuttleworth Foundation on CC BY as default and commercial enterprises in education
by Jane Park Open EducationPhoto by Mark Surman CC BY-NC-SA For those of you who don’t know Karien Bezuidenhout, she is the Chief Operating Officer at the Shuttleworth Foundation, one of the few foundations that fund open education projects and who have an open licensing policy for their grantees. A couple months ago, I had the chance to meet…
The Future of Peer 2 Peer University
by Jane Park UncategorizedPhoto by John Britton CC BY-SA The pilot phase of P2PU (Peer 2 Peer University) ended in October, after having run for six weeks with seven courses and approximately 90 participants. Last month, the pilot phase volunteers, including the course organizers, met in person for the first time at the first ever P2PU Workshop in…
Commoner Letter #4: Molly Kleinman of the University of Michigan
by allison Copyright, Open EducationMolly Kleinman is a long-time friend of CC and has been doing incredible work for all things copyright over at the University of Michigan as Special Assistant to the Dean of Libraries. From Espresso Book Machines to a CC-friendly Scholarly Publishing Office, we continue to be inspired by the University of Michigan’s innovative approach to…
The OpenEd ES Community: Educación y Comunidad—un nuevo portal internacional para la educación abierta, ¡en español!
by Jane Park Open EducationHaving just blogged about the UNESCO OER Community, I also want to emphasize that international communities like UNESCO are themselves made up of communities around the world, some as broad as OER for all Spanish speakers and some as specific as Food Safety in OER. This week, we would like to highlight OpenEd in Spanish,…
The OpenEd ES Community: Educación y Comunidad—un nuevo portal internacional para la educación abierta, ¡en español!
by Jane Park Open EducationHaving just blogged about the UNESCO OER Community, I also want to emphasize that international communities like UNESCO are themselves made up of communities around the world, some as broad as OER for all Spanish speakers and some as specific as Food Safety in OER. This week, we would like to highlight OpenEd in Spanish,…
Back to School: Open Courseware as a transition to college
by Jane Park Open EducationAs students around the world return to school, ccLearn blogs about the evolving education landscape, ongoing projects to improve educational resources, education technology, and the future of education. Browse the “Back to School” tag for more posts in this series. One aspect of open courseware* is its draw for potential students who are deciding where…
OpenEd—the new Open Education Community site
by Jane Park Open EducationSome of you may already be familiar with the term open ed, short for open education—which represents the fantastic movement around opening up educational resources so that anyone, anywhere, can access, use, and derive existing educational materials in new, creative ways or to simply adapt them to their unique individual needs and local contexts. There…