In quality of member of the OER Unesco community, I am very happy to know about this publication from UNESCO. The book brings together the background papers and reports from the first three years of activities in the community. From the press release: Education systems today face two major challenges: expanding thereach of education...
We, as participant of the Mozilla course, are requested to produce a Blueprint as assignment. Everyone is trying to think something useful for the educational community. My proposal arise fromt the consideration of language barriers in the OER community: the english (and spanish, too) speaking people could access many educational resources, open or semi-open,...
The discussion is going on on the list of the course also in a distributed way through twitter, the participants blogs, the wiki course. We had some troubles with the webex solutions for the live conferences (only audio, slides and chat) so I discovered the Openvideoconference. I discovered the Flatknowledge project, a wonderful idea...
Federica , a comprehensive e-learning portal established in 2007 at Federico II University in Naples, Italy, is launching its release 2.0 on Friday March 13th, 2009, «Our public University mission — explained Guido Trombetta, Federico II President — convinced us to avoid any password or other limitations to knowledge access. Each individual can access...
Thanks to SPARC, Students for FreeCulture e PLoS today is the first Open Access Day, to rise awareness about this topic, or in other words, about the idea that knowledge must be free. On OpenaccessDay.org you can find information about celebration around the world. On Dschola Tv, an Italian school network web tv, we...
The UNESCO OER Community received the 2008 MANeLA Leadership Award. Â It was presented at eLearning Africa last week by Moustapha Diack, Director of MERLOT Africa Network (MAN), and Gerry Hanley, Executive Director of MERLOT. The Leadership Award recognizes the Community’s “significant contribution to the global understanding of the issues and innovations surrounding OER...
Se vi appassiona il tema delle risorse educative aperte, potete dare un contributo adesso. L’instancabile gruppo dell’Unesco, capitanto da Susan D’Antoni, in cui da un paio d’anni si discute di questo tema si è dato come obiettivo quello di far conoscere al maggior numero di persone nel mondo cosa si intende per OER (Open...
As a member of the UNESCO OER Community I have the opportunity to take part to a wiki training session promoted by the Wayne Macintosh of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL). WikiEducator Learning4Content: 25 February-7 March The UNESCO OER Community has considered the need to create resources to support local awareness raising activities to...
Yesterday, Creative Commons launched its division devoted to education. ccLearn is a division of Creative Commons which is dedicated to realizing the full potential of the Internet to support open learning and open educational resources (OER). Our mission is to minimize barriers to sharing and reuse of educational materials — legal barriers, technical barriers,...
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