Tag: OER
Open for Comment – Public Draft of the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative Specification
by greg UncategorizedAs you may remember, the LRMI Technical Working Group, with the input of the wider community, has been working to create a set of metadata terms to describe learning resources. This set of terms is being developed with the goal of gaining acceptance into the Schema.org specification. Today I am pleased to share with you…
WikiSym 2011 is open for registration and student volunteers!
by Jane Park UncategorizedEarlier this year, we announced that Creative Commons is an official sponsor of the 7th annual WikiSym, the International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration. WikiSym is taking place right near Creative Commons headquarters in Mountain View, CA on October 3-5 at Microsoft Research Campus in Silicon Valley. WikiSym is the premier conference on open…
$20,000 Open Textbook Challenge from the Saylor Foundation
by Jane Park UncategorizedThe Saylor Foundation has been known for organizing comprehensive curriculum for popular subject areas, and licensing the resources when they can under the CC Attribution license. Now with the launch of its Open Textbook Challenge, the Saylor Foundation aims to expand the amount of high-quality CC BY-licensed course materials by offering a $20,000 award for…
Sir John Daniel of the Commonwealth of Learning: Open Education and Policy
by Timothy Vollmer UncategorizedSir John Daniel by COL / CC BY. Sir John Daniel has been working in open education from its earliest days. “Openness is in my genes,” he says. Sir John is President and CEO of the Commonwealth of Learning, or COL. COL is an intergovernmental organization comprised of 54 member states. The overarching focus area…
[Re-]Introducing Greg Grossmeier, Education Technology & Policy Coordinator
by mike UncategorizedGreg Grossmeier was a CC intern, community assistant, and for the last year and a half, a volunteer fellow. He is rejoining CC staff as Education Technology and Policy Coordinator, initially focused on the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative. How did you get involved in CC initially? It all started back when I was a student…
Brazil introduces OER into federal legislation and adopts local government policy
by Timothy Vollmer UncategorizedOER seminar at the Sao Paulo Legislative Assembly by reanetbr / CC BY There’s been some exciting announcements in support of open educational resources (OER) in Brazil over the last few weeks. First, legislation was introduced into Brazil’s House of Representatives. The bill deals with three main issues: It 1) requires government funded educational resources to be…
Commonwealth of Learning adopts CC BY-SA as part of new OER policy
by Jane Park UncategorizedThe Commonwealth of Learning (COL), an intergovernmental organization that “helps governments and institutions to expand the scope, scale and quality of learning,” has defined a new policy on open educational resources (OER). In addition to recognizing the importance of OER for teaching, learning, and collaboration among institutions and governments, the Commonwealth of Learning states that…
Creative Commons & the Association of Educational Publishers to establish a common learning resources framework
by Jane Park UncategorizedToday Creative Commons and the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) announce the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative, a project aimed at improving education search and discovery via a common framework for tagging and organizing learning resources on the web. The learning resources framework will be designed to work with schema.org, the web metadata framework recently launched…
Response to "Publishers Criticize Federal Investment in Open Educational Resources"
by Cable Green Open EducationOn Tuesday, the Chronicle of Higher Education posted the article, “Publishers Criticize Federal Investment in Open Educational Resources.” We strongly support the U.S. Department of Labor including a CC BY requirement in their recent TAACCCT grant which makes available $2 billion to create open educational resources (OER) for career training programs in community colleges. As…