As I reported at Open Access News, AcaWiki launched yesterday. The idea is free (gratis, libre), editable (wiki) summaries of academic papers. These summaries might be useful to scan during a literature review or when studying for a class, or they might help make an article comprehensible to a non-specialist (a researcher in another discipline, [...]
Posts under ‘Open education’
Liveblog: TACD IP: Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge
The next panel is on Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge.
First is Anne-Catherine Lorrain of Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue.
Interoperability should be a public principle.
ISP liability: Pressure for filtering solutions (consumer surveillance).
Government procurement should require open standards.
Richard Wilder of Microsoft.
(I’m not speaking on behalf of Microsoft.) IP online is important; we need more enforcement. This [...]
A completely open high school
David Wiley announced yesterday that the Utah Board of Education approved a new charter school, the Open High School of Utah. It’ll be a publicly-funded virtual school which uses exclusively open educational resources.
There are a few reasons this is particularly exciting. This school will have a strong concentrated interest in supporting OERs — you can [...]
Presentation on open access to Virginia legislature advisory committee
On Monday, 1 October, I gave a presentation on open access journal literature to the Open Education Resources Advisory Committee of the Joint Commission on Technology and Science of the Virginia General Assembly. (In other words: an advisory committee of an advisory committee of the state legislature.)
The presentation builds on my earlier post at Terra [...]
Opening education
I’m taking David Wiley’s Introduction to Open Education class at Utah State University this semester.
“But Gavin, didn’t you graduate?” Sure I did. But you’re never too old to learn, and when it comes to open education, I’ve got of learning to do. I could probably teach a class on, say, FOSS or open access, but [...]
Open access, open education, and FOSS
Update: Here’s a link to the post.
On Wednesday, I’ll be guest-blogging at Terra Incognita, the blog for Penn State’s World Campus, as part of its series on FOSS and OERs. The series concept is: a different guest blogger posts every other week – just one post – with discussion in the comments. You can read [...]
