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In this episode, Tom Mosterd - co-founder of Sylla, talks about his journey in the open-access movement and the vision behind Sylla's innovative approach to scholarly publishing. The team at Sylla works with educators and university librarians to adopt open and affordable scholarly resources.LinkedIn: /in/tom-mosterd-667497a4With experience at Knowledge Unlatched and the OAPEN Foundation, Tom joins Jo to share key insights that have shaped his perspective on making academic books and journals more accessible. They discuss the challenges and opportunities in expanding open access, the financial sustainability of Open Educational Resources (OER), and how initiatives like Sylla can support universities and educators. They also dive into global equity in higher education, particularly in regions with limited resources, and the future of open-access publishing.Find more podcast episodes here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://access2perspectives.org/conversations/⁠⁠⁠Host:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Dr Jo Havemann⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ORCID iD ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠0000-0002-6157-1494 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Editing: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Ebuka Ezeike⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Music:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Alex Lustig⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, produced by⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Kitty Kat ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠License:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)   ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠At Access 2 Perspectives, we guide you in your complete research workflow toward state-of-the-art research practices and in full compliance with funding and publishing requirements. Leverage your research projects to higher efficiency and increased collaboration opportunities while fostering your explorative spirit and joy.Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://access2perspectives.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

In dieser Spezialfolge erkunden wir die Möglichkeiten von Open Educational Resources (OER) als neue Lehr- und Lernmethoden. In Zusammenarbeit mit der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) entwickelte das Alexander von Humboldt Institut (HIIG) eine Toolbox, um Schulen, Universitäten und Organisationen einen Ansatzpunkt zur Auseinandersetzung mit möglichen Zukünften zu geben. Diese Folge thematisiert, wie OERs speziell an Schulen einsetzbar sind und wie Lehrkräfte so mit ihren Schüler*innen (Zukunfts-)Denken trainieren können.

In this episode: We welcome one of our all-time favorite guests, Sue Frantz, to the podcast. Sue talks about her new role as Associate Director of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (STP). We also get a chance to discuss some of Sue's many contributions to psychology, including multiple blogs, conference presentations, and her published books (and books in the works). We also dip into a conversation about Open Educational Resources (OER).

Are you exploring the possibility of incorporating low or no-cost educational materials into your course? Whether you're just curious about these resources or ready to integrate them into your teaching, this episode of Speaking of Higher Ed helps you get started.   In this month's episode, we're joined by Jeff Gallant, the program director of Affordable Learning Georgia (ALG). ALG is on a mission to support student success and promote equitable access to education by advocating for the use of affordable and open educational resources.  Jeff delves into the world of Open Educational Resources (OER) and provides guidance on how you can kickstart the process of identifying materials for your course. For faculty within the University System of Georgia, there are faculty, library, and design champions available on campus to assist you in this endeavor. Jeff also shares invaluable insights on how you can harness the advantages of OER, from enhancing your teaching materials to alleviating financial burdens for students. Discover how OER can be a game-changer for you and a catalyst for student achievement as we explore how these open resources level the academic playing field.   Additionally, Jeff provides a breakdown of the potential cost savings for students in Georgia when courses adopt free textbooks. If you're an educator in search of open textbooks, Jeff offers practical tips to navigate this transformative landscape in education.  Speaking of Higher Ed is produced by the Center for Instructional Innovation at Augusta University. Find more episodes and resources on our show page. Subscribe now so you don't miss an episode. 

Join Dani and Matt as they explore blended learning and the technologies that support it, including Open Educational Resources (OER). This engaging audio podcast features expert guests from BYU's OER Team who share their experience and expertise on OERs and how they can improve teaching and learning.BYU OER WebsiteeMedia UEN OER Collective HubUEN OER Webpage  Stay connected with UENTwitterFacebookInstagramLinkedInPinterest   

Freie Bildungsresourcen für alle. Das ist keine Utopie, sondern bereits gelebte Wissenschaftswirklichkeit. Dr. Sandra Schön (TU Graz) beschreibt und erklärt als eine der "Early Adopters", was OER ist, wo es zu finden ist und warum bei OER nicht nur das Nehmen sondern auch das Geben bereichernd ist.

Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss the recently announced Amazon Kindle Scribe which supports a Wacom EMR stylus for writing on the e-ink tablet. Jon also explains Open Educational Resources (OER) to Todd.

Empowering students as creators through Open Educational Resources (OER) is discussed by Lee Miller and Josh Bolick, experts in OER, in OER in the latest episode of How We Teach This from The Teachers College at Emporia State University. They share how not only can professors in higher education but also teachers in K-12 can improve teaching and learning by utilizing the concept of open educational resources.

"Mit „Heldinnen und Helden der Praxis“ haben wir jenseits von JRA eine Podcastreihe UND GLEICHZEITIG einen Onlinekurs für Lehrkräfte gebaut. Darin geht es um konkrete Praxisbeispiele für den Unterricht, vorgestellt von Ihren Machern: sechs Lehrkräften aus Niedersachsen. Dabei werden fachliche Perspektiven und biographische Geschichten mit konkretem Material zum Nachmachen kombiniert. Aus der Ankündigung: Wie sieht guter Unterricht mit digitalen Medien aus? In diesem Lernangebot geben sechs niedersächsische Lehrkräfte Antworten. In ausführlichen Podcast-Interviews stellen sie konkrete Unterrichtsbeispiele vor. Sie erläutern dabei auch die Didaktik hinter ihrem Vorgehen und ihre persönliche Motivation. Zusätzlich stellen alle Lehrkräfte Unterrichtsentwürfe, Vorlagen und Anleitungen zur Verfügung, die als Open Educational Resources (OER) frei genutzt werden können. Herausgekommen sind sechs Podcasts von „Lehrkräften mit Superkräften“, aufbereitet als Onlinekurs. Und das dann auch noch frei lizenziert zur Nachnutzung als Open Educational Resources (OER). Vielen Dank an das Niedersächsische Landesinstitut für schulische Qualitätsentwicklung (NLQ) für die Zusammenarbeit – und natürlich den sechs Held*innen der Praxis! Der übergroße Teil dieses JRA-Podcasts ist eine Übernahme der Tonspur aus dem Eröffnungsvideo zum Online-Kurs, zu finden (inkl. Lizenzangaben zur CC BY 4.0-Lizenz) hier auf YouTube."

Hello everyone! Today I am joined by my friend David Bakker, PocketLab co-founder & Stanford teacher. In this episode we discuss the importance of scientific literacy, how to bring passion into the science classroom, and an amazing FREE conference any teacher involved with science should attend. I loved this talk! Check out the FREE conference here.  Here's what it's about: ScIC "Science is Cool" invites STEM educators from around the world to a globally attended event dedicated to Open Educational Resources (OER). We will explore this and other free to low-cost tools and resources that empower you to shape lesson plans according to your teaching style and classroom needs. FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 2022 — 9:00AM - 4:00PM PACIFIC TIME       This episode is sponsored by Heinemann—the leading publisher of professional books and resources for educators—and their professional book, Textured Teaching: A Framework for Culturally Sustaining Practices by Lorena Escoto Germán.   With Culturally Sustaining Practice as its foundation, Textured Teaching helps secondary teachers stop wondering and guessing how to implement teaching and learning that leads to social justice.  Lorena Germán shares her framework for creating a classroom environment that is highly rigorous and engaging, and that reflects the core traits of Textured Teaching: student-driven and community-centered, interdisciplinary, experiential, and flexible.  The actionable strategies Lorena uses to bring Textured Teaching values to life illuminate what is possible when we welcome all types of texts, all types of voices, and all forms of expression into the classroom. Learn more about how to become a culturally sustaining educator. Visit Heinemann.com to download a sample from Textured Teaching.

School systems and mindsets need to evolve to address the ambiguity fostered by technological advances in order to keep pace with the speed of change and innovation. Dr. Michael Nagler joins Katie Martin on this week's episode to uncover how this new generation of leaders in our fast paced world needs to be more forward thinking about what our kids are experiencing in and out of the classroom. Michael P. Nagler, Ed.D., has held many positions in his 32 years in education. He began his career as a school teacher in NYC while completing his Master's and earning his professional diploma. Dr. Nagler then went on to earn his doctorate from Columbia University and accepted an administrative position with Mineola in 1999. Believing strongly in the district's mission to create lifelong learners who contribute positively to a global society, Dr. Nagler rooted himself in the Mineola School District and never left. During his nineteen years with the district, he has been a big proponent of using technology to engage students in rigorous content. Mineola was one of the first Districts to implement a 1:1 iPad initiative. Mineola's innovative use of the iPad has led to the rare feat of having all five Mineola schools to be recognized as Apple Distinguished Schools. Mineola is a member of the League of Innovative schools; one of only 104 districts nationwide. Being a member affords Mineola the ability to be at the forefront of nationwide initiatives such as Open Educational Resources (OER), the Maker Movement and computer science for all. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram! @LCCollaborative Subscribe to our newsletter! Learner-centered tools, insights, and bright spots delivered to your inbox: https://learnercentered.org/bright-spots-newsletter/

Michael P. Nagler, Ed.D., has held many positions in his 34 years in education. Before assuming his current position as Superintendent of the Mineola Public schools, he began his career as a school teacher in NYC while completing his Master's and earning his professional diploma. Dr. Nagler then went on to earn his doctorate from Columbia University and accepted an administrative position with Mineola in 1999. Believing strongly in the district's mission to create lifelong learners who contribute positively to a global society, Dr. Nagler rooted himself in the Mineola School District and never left. During his twenty+ years with the district, he has been a big proponent of using technology to engage students in rigorous content. Mineola was one of the first Districts to implement a 1:1 iPad initiative. Mineola's innovative use of the iPad has led to the rare feat of having all five Mineola schools to be recognized as Apple Distinguished Schools. Mineola is a member of the League of Innovative schools; one of only 104 districts nationwide. Being a member affords Mineola the ability to be at the forefront of nationwide initiatives such as Open Educational Resources (OER), the Maker Movement and computer science for all, #CSforall. Mineola was one of the first schools in the State to implement a comprehensive computer science curriculum starting in kindergarten. Mineola is also at the forefront of digital student portfolios. Dr. Nagler recently utilized the Districts coding platform to create his own http://michaelnagler.oyosite.com/mainpage.html (digital portfolio). Dr. Nagler was the 2020 New York State Superintendent of the Year and was a Finalist for the 2020 National Superintendent of the Year. Here is the https://youtu.be/cTrsvGytGG0 (link) to Dr. Nagler's Laboratory video referenced in the interview. Connect with Dr. Nagler on Twitter @NaglersNotions LEADERS: How will you welcome your staff back in the fall? Now is the time to lock Darrin Peppard in for your opening events. Darrin will bring a positive, uplifting, and inspiring message to your staff and remind them that EDUCATORS MATTER! Dates are filling up fast, email darrinmpeppard@roadtoawesome.net or call (307) 371-8947 to get a conversation with Darrin today! Want to know what you'd miss out on, check this link to see Darrin in action https://youtu.be/WyQlujq6SSA (Road to Awesome breakout session - CADA 3/2022) Now is the time! Leadership teams are being reorganized across the US this summer. New members will be replacing members who are retiring or moving on to another role. New administrators will be leaping out of the classroom and into leadership for the very first time. Let's be INTENTIONAL with the development of our leadership teams for next year. High Performance Leadership Teams by Road to Awesome is designed to align each member of the new leadership team, to dig deep into the core values of the team, and to ultimately identify and plan the goals for the upcoming year. I would love to work with you and your team to help you achieve that High Performance that you are looking for, that your school and district deserve. Let's connect - email me at darrinmpeppard@roadtoawesome.net or call me at (307) 371-8947. It costs you nothing to have a conversation. Professional development with Road to Awesome is just a click away. Connect with us at roadtoawesome.net for leadership coaching and consulting, the High Performance Leadership Teams event, staff culture and climate professional development, and keynote and event/school kick-off speaking. Darrin will make your event awesome and have your team ready to roll on the #RoadToAwesome email Darrin at darrinmpeppard@roadtoawesome.net Subscribe to our newsletter at roadtoawesome.net Got a book idea you'd like to pitch to the team at RtA? Go to https://roadtoawesome.net/our-services to submit your idea. Follow me on social media at @DarrinMPeppard on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok, Alignable,...

Im Interview geht Sophie Westphal, Zentrum PEP, UniGraz auf Fragen zur Bedeutung von OER in der Elementarbildung und der Plattform Praxisanleitung digital ein.

In this episode, Kasey chats with Rich Dixon, Senior Director of Innovative Learning at Hāpara. Rich shares the power of Open Educational Resources (OER)--what they are, where to find them, and how to get started. The FREE Lesson Plans and Resources You Aren't Using (but should be)--Find free, standards-aligned lesson plans and teaching resources for your classroom. (This episode sponsored by Hāpara.)

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Hāpara: Your Partner in Learning.The webinar recording can be accessed here.How can Open Educational Resources (OER) foster educational equity? This edWeb podcast provides a vision for using OER to this end, explores the resurgence of using OER to improve teaching and learning, and reviews how to get started in making the transition to doing so. Listen to this edWeb podcast to learn about:How using OER fosters educational equity to help all learners succeedWhy there is a resurgence of OER useThe U.S. Department of Education's recent #GoOpen initiative convening and how it is supporting states, districts and educators choosing to transition to using OERPractical resources to help you get started This edWeb podcast is of interest to K-12 educators as well as school and district leaders. The presentation is designed to inspire a vision for using OER as a means to educational equity and equip attendees with the knowledge to get started.Hāpara: Your Partner in Learning Providing a seamless teaching and learning experience for teachers, students and parents.

Wir sprechen mit Heike Gleibs, der Leiterin des Bereich Bildung, Kultur und Wissenschaft bei Wikimedia über freien und offenen Zugang zu Bildungsinhalten. Wieso sind Open Educational Resources (OER) so wichtig? Lassen sich damit gesellschaftliche Barrieren abbauen? Was sind Lock-in-Effekte und wie werden diese durch OER vermieden? Auch Ansätze, wie in Zukunft freie Bildungsinhalte verfügbar gemacht werden können erfahrt ihr in dieser Folge. Und ja, man kann Wikipedia auch sinnvoll in der Schule verwenden. Wenn ihr wissen wollt wie, hört rein! Interview: Marie Goss Diese Folge wurde produziert mit freundlicher Unterstützung von bettermarks, dem adaptiven Lernsystem.

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Dr. Kevin Rabas and Dr. Amy Sage Webb-Baza from Emporia State University's Department of English, Modern Languages, and Journalism discuss ballroom dancing, their reasons for adding Open Educational Resources (OER) into their creative writing courses, and express gratitude for the many resources available to help them with the transition. You can find more information about How We Teach This on our website, www.emporia.edu/HWTT plus watch videos of the presenters, access resources they mention, and find links to other websites related to the episode. If you'd like to leave us a comment about this podcast episode, you can do that here.

College textbooks and course materials costs have increased over 800% in the last 3 decades, far outpacing inflation, housing, and medical costs, to become the most inflated consumer product. High-cost texts create significant barriers to learning and student success. Open Educational Resources (OER) are "teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others” (Hewlett Foundation). OER and related practices are an approach to overcoming cost and reuse barriers to the benefit of students and instructors. In this episode, Art Gutierrez and Dr. Terri Summey from Emporia State University's Libraries + Archives. They discuss using an OER in their UL100: Research Skills, Information and Technology course. They also discuss other resources such as favorite textbooks used for information literacy (Upson / Badke), using EBSCOs Faculty Select, and tips for adding leadership into the classroom. You can find more information about How We Teach This on our website, www.emporia.edu/HWTT plus watch videos of the presenters, access resources they mention, and find links to other websites related to the episode. If you'd like to leave us a comment about this podcast episode, you can do that here.

Use of free, openly licensed textbooks and other curricular materials have been on the rise amid growing concerns about college affordability. But uptake stalled last year as professors and students struggled with the transition to digital learning and the tumult of their lives, a new annual report on usage of OER finds. This week's episode of The Key examines the state of open educational resources and other affordable textbook options with Jeff Seaman, co-director of Bay View Analytics and the author of the OER report; Robbie Melton, a professor of educational administration at Tennessee State University and an advocate for OER use at historically black colleges; and Jorgo Gushi, a student at Quinsigamond Community College in Massachusetts. A key question: will the widespread shift to virtual learning and continued pressure on colleges to improve affordability and access for underrepresented students create opportunity for OER – or strengthen the hand of low-cost alternatives from publishers? Hosted by Inside Higher Ed Co-founder and Editor Doug Lederman

The internet has been disrupting the education sector since its advent and continues to do so. From The Open University to Massive Online Open Courses (known affectionately as MOOCs) and now Open Educational Resources, the world wide web has been empowering teachers and students alike for many years. In the midst of a global pandemic, the teaching profession has had to adapt, shifting near-seamlessly to “Remote Teaching” and/or “Hybrid Teaching”. Educators had to and still have to learn the lessons such as how to build a community in the virtual classroom and how to create new teaching material that meets student's learning needs. By and large, Open Educational Resources (OER) are another useful tool in the armoury of teachers and students alike.In this episode, I will make you familiar with this relatively new type of teaching resources. We will start with the question of what OER are, how useful they are and why you should create your own. Last, but not least, we will get you started creating your first OER.For more information visit my blog: profmanagement.de Thank you for listening. If you liked this episode please leave a review on the iTunes / Apple Podcasts website. If you've got any thoughts on this episode, or if you've got an idea about new podcast topics or question you'd like us to discuss, send an audio file or voice note to hi@profmanagement.de. For any non-audio comments, drop a tweet or DM to @profmanagement on Twitter or Instagram, please.References:Rebus Community Guide: https://press.rebus.community/authoropen/ Create Open Educational Resources: https://pitt.libguides.com/openeducation/create OER Authoring Tools: https://subjectguides.esc.edu/OER/oerauthoringtools

Each year public schools spend millions of dollars on copyright-protected textbooks. Districts do this even though we now live in a digitally dominated world full of open-sourced books. But there's an alternative. The movement of using Open Educational Resources (OER) has been growing over the past five years.  In 2017 Class Dismissed interviewed Cable Green, the director of Open Education with Creative Commons. Green made a compelling argument for OER, but we wanted to learn more. For instance, what is it like to be on the front lines of a school-wide OER roll out?  How much more work does it take? Are Open Education Resources better than traditional textbooks? Have there been advantages to using OER during the COVID-19 pandemic? In Episode 176, we caught up with Dan McDowell, the director of learning and innovation of the Grossmont Union High school district in San Diego County, Califonia. McDowell and his colleagues have been gradually transferring their curriculum to OER over the past five years. The journey to an OER district McDowell will admit that transitioning to OER has been challenging, but there are also many benefits. "It takes a lot of time and work to develop these resources," McDowell says.  The Grossmont Union High Schoo District pays teachers extra to help gather and vet the OER materials and then develop the instructional materials around them. They set up committees and which in turn discover what's out there.  McDowell references a great website called CK12 that has opened licensed textbooks on it. He says they then modify and add supplemental resources like videos and additional readings to those existing resources.  McDowell says all of their science course are now using this OER format, so they no longer provide textbooks for their main science classes. They're also making good progress on Social Science and ninth and tenth grade English. "This isn't like a change everything sort of thing," says McDowell. "It's a see where it fits and see where we get the most bang for our buck."  In our full conversation with Dan McDowell, you'll learn...  What OER looks like for the student.  If OER is a useful resource during virtual learning.  If McDowell has any regrets about making the transition. Why buy-in from the teachers is critical. You can also see all of the Grossmont Union High Schoo District OER projects on their website.  In Episode 176 of Class Dismissed we talk in-depth with Whiting about how to help students become media literate by identifying native advertising, influencers, and media bias. To learn more listen to Class Dismissed Podcast on iTunes or your favorite podcasting app. All Rights Reserved. Class Dismissed Podcast 2017-2020

Host Jonathan Hughes breaks down the resources available to students in Massachusetts to help save on the cost of college, including Tuition Break, New England State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement (SARA), and Open Educational Resources (OER). Jonathan is joined by Wendy Lindsay from the New England Board of Higher Education. If you enjoy the MEFA Podcast, please leave us a review at trustpilot.com/evaluate/mefa.org Timestamp (00:00) Intro (04:31) MEFA Mailbag (14:54) Save on the Cost

Is it possible to get a college education for FREE? No...it's not a political promise. It's real!!! Grant Aldrich is On a Mission to Make College More Affordable and Accessible for Everyone. OnlineDegree.com has now become a leading educational platform to help millions of people go back to school who've been unable to take that first critical step.  Grant firmly believes in the benefits of utilizing open source or Open Educational Resources (OER) for students. By using OER in higher education, student's costs of learning are kept to an absolute minimum. OER has given OnlineDegree.com the ability to achieve its goal of making the offering completely free for students and sets a positive example to encourage the adoption of these materials worldwide. For more information, visit below.... https://www.onlinedegree.com/ https://www.onlinedegree.com/certifications/   Chris Miles, the "Cash Flow Expert and Anti-Financial Advisor," is a leading authority on how to quickly free up and create cash flow for thousands of his clients, entrepreneurs, and others internationally! He's an author, speaker, and radio host that has been featured in US News, CNN Money, Bankrate, Entrepreneur on Fire, and spoken to thousands getting them fast financial results. http://moneyripples.com/ https://www.twitter.com/chriscmiles  

Is it possible to get a college education for FREE? No...it's not a political promise. It's real!!! Grant Aldrich is On a Mission to Make College More Affordable and Accessible for Everyone. OnlineDegree.com has now become a leading educational platform to help millions of people go back to school who've been unable to take that first critical step.  Grant firmly believes in the benefits of utilizing open source or Open Educational Resources (OER) for students. By using OER in higher education, student's costs of learning are kept to an absolute minimum. OER has given OnlineDegree.com the ability to achieve its goal of making the offering completely free for students and sets a positive example to encourage the adoption of these materials worldwide. For more information, visit below.... https://www.onlinedegree.com/ https://www.onlinedegree.com/certifications/   Chris Miles, the "Cash Flow Expert and Anti-Financial Advisor," is a leading authority on how to quickly free up and create cash flow for thousands of his clients, entrepreneurs, and others internationally! He's an author, speaker, and radio host that has been featured in US News, CNN Money, Bankrate, Entrepreneur on Fire, and spoken to thousands getting them fast financial results. http://moneyripples.com/ https://www.twitter.com/chriscmiles  

Khan Klatt has been involved in education technology for the last 7 years, on both the for-profit and non-profit sides of the industry. Khan talks about how some things change and some stay the same between those two worlds, how he got his start in software, the front-end focus in ed tech, and how he applies "otaku" to his hobby of building light displays.   CFC’s Mission: https://www.cfchildren.org/blog/2016/04/safe-children-thriving-in-a-peaceful-world/ UIUC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCSA_HTTPd CFC https://www.cfchildren.org/ Open Educational Resources (OER) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources Bob Martin / Clean Code - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_C._Martin NoOps/ZeroOps - https://www.cio.com/article/3407714/what-is-noops-the-quest-for-fully-automated-it-operations.html Otaku - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otaku Falcon PixelController - https://www.pixelcontroller.com/store/index.php xLights Software - https://xlights.org/

Interested in Open Educational Resources (OER) but worried about what you can and cannot use or share? This podcast may help! In this special episode (part 1 of 3 celebrating OER week), Amanda Wakaruk, Copyright Librarian at the University of Alberta, shares advice on using OER materials and explains a bit about the copyright behind OER.

Elizabeth Kennedy is the director of development for the University Libraries at the University of Houston. They are creating Open Educational Resources (OER), teaching and learning resources – aka textbooks – that are published in the public domain. This means that anyone can freely use and re-purpose them. When a single textbooks can cost more than $120 and amount to over $1000 of necessary purchases for college students, many are left without the books they need. UH is incentivizing the program to compel professors to create and use open textbooks in their courses. It's been a tremendous success thus far and they're just getting started. It also has the advantage of cutting out the greedy, corrupt academic publishing industry. What's not to love! Go to www.libraries.uh.edu for info on how you can take advantage of their system and participate in creating textbooks.

"Was sind OER?" fragt Tine Nowak als Gastgeberin des Leben X.0-Podcasts. Als Co-Moderator ist dieses Mal Stefan Jahrling dabei, er arbeitet als Medienpädagoge am Museum für Kommunikation Berlin. Nach einem Blick in die Wikipedia entfalten drei Expert*innen den Begriff der Open Educational Resources (OER) aus unterschiedlichen Blickrichtungen: Anja Lorenz (TH Lübeck) führt grundlegend in den Begriff ein, Lawrence Lessig (Harvard Law School & Harvard University) blickt zurück, als Creative Commons gegründet wurden und Christian Friedrich (Wikimedia Deutschland) spricht über den Nutzen von OER gerade für Lernen in einer digital geprägten Welt.

#GoOpenNC is a library of Open Educational Resources (OER) that is available to all North Carolina educators beginning December 16, 2019. In this episode we talk about the new platform and why you should log in and start sharing.   #GoOpenNC: https://goopennc.oercommons.org Leslie Carriker's blog post: https://sites.google.com/view/lesliecarriker/blog?authuser=0 Creative Commons Information: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Audio clips: https://audiosoundclips.com/dj-sound-effects-sfx/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/techplusbooks/message

In Vino Fabulum! In Wine, Story!Find the #InVinoFab podcast on Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, & Apple PodcastsTo stay in touch and listen to the next episode of @InVinoFab on: https://soundcloud.com/invinofab/ https://twitter.com/invinofab with hashtag: #InVinoFabhttps://www.instagram.com/invinofab/ Email us to be a guest or share a topic suggestion? invinofabulum@gmail.com Connect with your co-hosts on Twitter:https://twitter.com/laurapasquini (she/her)https://twitter.com/profpatrice (she/her)----On episode no. 47 of #InVinoFab, we talk to Soyla Santos, a higher education administrator by day and art lecturer by night. She received her BFA in Painting and MFA in Intermedia from the University of Texas at Arlington. Additionally, Soyla is a Certified Positive Psychology Practitioner who is a firm believer in the power of creative problem-solving. She thrives on art, science, and history. Soyla has many talents, as she a proud Mom, artist, podcast junkie, and dinosaur aficionado. Most of all, she believes that every day is an opportunity for greatness!Be sure to connect to Soyla: Twitter: twitter.com/AdvisorSoyla  Instagram: www.instagram.com/Soyla81 “I have so many tabs open in my brain at one time... for me it's having to narrow things down. But one of the things, I've really been working at is that I'm not tailoring my class toward the [technology] tool, but the tool is helping me enhance my class.” ~ @AdvisorSoyla share how she filters ideas and goals for her pedagogical practice.“Once you're an advisor, you're kind of always an advisor.” ~@AdvisorSoyla #AcAdvHere are a few things chatted about on this episode: Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource (OER): uta.pressbooks.pub/artappreciation/ Follow the students' art work: #UTAArt1301   Pro Tip: Ivory is the best soap to work on your own soap sculpture. Multipotentialite - Emile Wapnick puttylike.com/terminology/ Deep Ellum Art Co. deepellumart.co/ #SAproART saproart.weebly.com/ NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising nacada.ksu.edu/ IPEN: International Positive Education Network ipen-network.com/ The Flourishing Project theflourishingcenter.com/ Perma Model positivepsychology.com/perma-model/ Positive messages from Soyla on Fb: www.facebook.com/PositivityandCBD/  The Pursuit of Happiness with Martin Seligman www.pursuit-of-happiness.org/history-of…sychology/  Two past podcasts with Open Educational Resources (OER) from #InVinoFab Episode #10: @saguaromelee on Teaching with Wikipedia for STEM Education Invinofab – Episode-10-saguaromelee-wikipedia-stem-education  Episode #4: @bella_velo and the @uncommon_women community Invinofab – Episode-4-bella_velo-uncommon_women  Open Textbook Network open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/  Creative Commons creativecommons.org/ #InVinoFab Recommendations from Soyla: Anything by Brené Brown brenebrown.com/books-audio/  Switch by Chip & Dan Heath heathbrothers.com/books/switch/  Girl Watch Your Face by Rachel Hollis www.girlwashyourface.com/  RISE Podcast Ep: #107 Stop Procrastinating podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/107-…i=1000445660211  Urban Alchemy Bar www.urbanalchemy.bar/  Wine: La Miranda de Secastilla Garnacha Blanca garnachaorigen.com/product/la-mira…arnacha-blanca/

Open educational resources are the education world’s version of the sharing economy. OER is curriculum and other learning materials that are shared without cost and without copyrights. That allows users to adapt the materials any way they want and freely share their new creations with anyone. That’s different than copyrighted materials, which are protected intellectual property that restrict sharing. With OER, there’s no revenue stream to protect. Sounds like a good deal, right? It is, but, like a free puppy, there is care and feeding involved. For starters, finding them, vetting them and understanding how best to use them takes a lot of time and resources. Kristina Ishmael, an OER specialist for the Washington, D.C.-nonprofit New America, offers an OER primer and describes what’s involved when a school wants to start using OER materials. She explains how materials from the Office of Education Technology (tech.ed.gov/open/districts/launch) and the New America website (www.newamerica.org) can help educators get started so that they experience more joy and less annoyance from their new puppy.

James GlapaGrossklag (aka James GG) @JGlapaGrossklag is Dean, Educational Technology, Learning Resources and Distance Learning at the College of the Canyons in California. James has long been one of the Open Education Movement's most tireless advocates through his incredible work with the Open Education Consortium and the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources #OER.

James GlapaGrossklag (aka James GG) @JGlapaGrossklag is Dean, Educational Technology, Learning Resources and Distance Learning at the College of the Canyons in California. James has long been one of the Open Education Movement's most tireless advocates through his incredible work with the Open Education Consortium and the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources #OER.

In this sixty-third (63rd) edition of the TigerTalk podcast presented by Northeast Mississippi Community College, host Will Kollmeyer welcomes NEMCC's Vice President of Instruction Michelle Baragona to the podcast to talk about a first for the Booneville-based called -- a Z-degree. With the addition of its iPad initiative and its Open Educational Resources (OER) initiative, Northeast has become one of the first community colleges in the country and the FIRST community college or university in the state of Mississippi to offer a Z-degree to students. Baragona explains what a Z-degree is -- a degree with ZERO textbook costs to the students -- and how the iPad initiative and the OER initiative have been instrumental in changing the pedagogy and teaching culture at Northeast. Baragona also talks about how much money the college has saved the students when it comes to textbooks -- especially since the average cost of a textbook was over $120 before the iPad and OER initiatives and now it is just $32. In the second half of the podcast, Northeast division head of languages and humanities Justin Treloar stops in to give the faculty perspective on the iPad initiative, how OER has changed the way instructors use their class time and how the students have reacted to using the iPads and OER materials in the classroom. Treloar also talks about being one of the first instructors on campus to push for OER in the classroom and finding the funding to help with the switch from traditional textbooks to multi-touch books, PDFs and live links in the Canvas Learning Management software. If you haven't subscribed to the podcast, now would be a good time to subscribe to stay up-to-date on all the happenings on the Northeast campuses and hear in-depth interviews with guests each week. Don't forget to follow the Northeast TigerTalk podcast on Facebook at http:.//www.facebook.com/nemcctigertalk, on Twitter at @nemcctigertalk or listen to all of our past episodes at http://nemcctigertalk.simplecast.fm

In this week's episode we will host Lander's University Archivist, April Akins.  She will discuss Open Educational Resources (OER) and affordable learning.  If you want to know about OERs, how to adopt them yourself, or how others are using OERs at Lander this is the episode for you!

A Better Way with Open Textbooks Each year public schools spend millions of dollars on copyright protected textbooks. Districts do this even though we now live in a digitally dominated world, which is full of open textbooks. Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. School districts around the world are currently exploring Open Educational Resources (OER), and they're finding out that the cost-saving results can be significant. The Man With The Answers Cable Green is the Director of Open Education with Creative Commons. He knows that if states use open education resources correctly, they can experience not just lower cost educational tools, but arguably better education tools. Cable Green courtesy of Twitter Green has over 20 years of experience in academic technology and online learning, and he’s a leading advocate for open licensing policies. He says that the many states are spending millions of dollars on textbooks that are sometimes six to ten years out of date. “The United States, just in K-12 spends somewhere between $6 and $9 billion a year on textbooks and other curriculum,” says Green. Green says for that money, we get pretty terrible results. "On average our books are 7-10 years out of date. They're paper only, we don't have any digital versions for the most part." Green says he gets irritated because it doesn’t have to be this way. With educational resources from the past decade originating in a digital format all that information can be stored, copied, and distributed for a minimal cost. Green believes by informing school districts about open educational resources; districts can spend a lot less money and get a lot better results. Hear Green explain how Open Educational Resources (OER) can change your school district by listening to Episode 86 of the Class Dismissed Podcast on iTunes or your favorite podcasting app. This interview with Cable Green is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The interview with Green was initially recorded in October of 2017.

Rose Liljenquist is an Open Educational Resources (OER) librarian at Gerald Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. Anne Diekema is also a librarian at Gerald Sherratt Library and an assistant professor at Southern Utah University.

Ep.6 - Does Your Teacher Have a Podcast? Tim and Kyle talk about the influence that podcasts can and will have on the classroom and why teachers need to embrace educational podcasts. Episode at a Glance: Financial and access barriers to educational materials are being reduced by podcasting What did we learn? Open Educational Resources (OER) can now add podcasts to their list of textbooks, streaming video, simulations, courseware, and software OER benefits learning by making lectures, exercises, and examples freely available OER be retained, reused, revised, remixed, and redistributed by K-12 educational institutions Educators can become their own content producers. The number of podcasts that are educational is growing. Additional Reading: Podcasts in the Classroom Project Audio: Teaching Students How to Produce Their Own Podcasts How To Enter The NPR Student Podcast Challenge How Podcasts Can Improve Literacy in the Classroom TeacherCast Educational Network Colonial Williamsburg Past and Present Podcast Dan Carlin - Hardcore History Podcast Karen Jackson - A Long Look: Slow Art at the National Gallery Trend Forecaster: Two new predictions have been added! See all of our Podcast Industry predictions at podwrecked.com/trends/! Quotes: Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. – Benjamin Franklin It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. – John Wooden Reach out to Podwrecked: Email us at -- podwrecked AT GMAIL DOT com Website: http://podwrecked.com Podwrecked is a Gagglepod Production. Learn more at gagglepod.com.  

Matthew Bloom talks with us about Open Educational Resources (OER). Matthew currently leads the Maricopa Millions Project and has been leading the charge of OER adoption in our district for many years. He describes OER and shares with us what he believe is next for OER. In part 2 of this podcast Matthew will also share recommendations for faculty that would like to get started with OER. Maricopa Millions https://www.maricopa.edu/why-maricopa/maricopa-millions Your hosts are Patricia Herrera and Jeannette Shaffer from South Mountain Community College, Center for Teaching and Learning in Phoenix, Arizona.

Matthew Bloom talks with us about Open Educational Resources (OER). Matthew currently leads the Maricopa Millions Project and has been leading the charge of OER adoption in our district for many years. He describes OER and shares with us what he believe is next for OER. In part 2 of this podcast Matthew will also share recommendations for faculty that would like to get started with OER. Maricopa Millions https://www.maricopa.edu/why-maricopa/maricopa-millions CARE Framework https://careframework.org/ Your hosts are Patricia Herrera and Jeannette Shaffer from South Mountain Community College, Center for Teaching and Learning in Phoenix, Arizona.

Dr. Nicholas Colvard, Lecturer and Academic Coach in the Division of Academic Enhancement at University of Georgia, discusses both the potential economic and academic benefits of Open Educational Resources (OER) and the results of their latest findings re: OER at University of Georgia.

This is my introduction to Open Educational Resources. I am new to all of this but this is what I have found so far and why I am excited about it.

Was genau passiert eigentlich mit Open Educational Resources (OER), wenn sie einmal veröffentlicht sind? Sandra Schön (Bims e.V.) und Paul Klimpel (irights) sprechen über ihre Erfahrungen mit dem Kontrollverlust. Sandra Schön berichtet über den OER Canvas, der mittlerweile in mindestens 20 Sprachen vorliegt. An lediglich zwei Sprachfassungen hat Sandra Schön selbst gearbeitet, danach übernahm eine Community. Ähnlich dynamisch sind ihre Erfahrungen mit Zeichnungen, die sie auf Pixabay eingestellt hat. Wenn man sich erst einmal daran gewöhnt habe, so Sandra Schön, sei Kontrollverlust eine tolle Sache. Dem stimmt Paul Klimpel zu. Am Beispiel seiner Broschüre „Freies Wissen Dank Creative Commons Lizenzen. Folgen, Risiken und Nebenwirkungen der Bedingung «nicht kommerziell» – NC“ lässt sich lernen, welche Dynamik eine Veröffentlichung unter einer freien Lizenz entwickeln kann. Auch Paul Klimpel ist froh über den unerwarteten und unplanbaren Weg seiner Broschüre. Das Gespräch führt Jöran Muuß-Merholz für OERinfo.

Am 31.10.2011 bloggte Markus Beckedahl auf netzpolitik.org: „Der Schultrojaner – Eine neue Innovation der Verlage“. In der Kommentarspalte dort, dann auch in anderen Blogs und auf dem EduCamp in Bielefeld entfalteten sich intensive Diskussionen. Einige Menschen wollten zusammen Alternativen zu traditionellen Angeboten der Schulverlage schaffen. Rückblickend lässt sich der 31.10.2011 als Geburtsstunde einer breiteren Diskussion rund um Open Educational Resources (OER) in Deutschland sehen. OER sind freie und offene Lehr-Lern-Materialien, die z.B. kollaborativ erstellt und im Netz geteilt werden können.

Today's guest is Pep Carrera, Chief Operating Officer of VitalSource Technologies, a leading educational platform technology company. "We will continue to focus on bringing the best in digital learning technology and accessibility to the learning community." Pep Carrera VitalSource is a global leader in building, enhancing, and delivering e-learning content.   The Platform Is Transforming Learning MORE THAN BOOKS The platform provides instructors and students with immersive, interactive experiences that go beyond the printed page. They also help hundreds of publishers enhance their existing content or create new, customised digital products. GLOBAL REACH VitalSource delivers educational content to instructors and students around the world through our website, bookstore partnerships and institutional customers. LEARNING UNLEASHED With the most advanced technology and solutions, VitalSource is helping develop brilliant learners one experience at a time.

In this episode the instructional designers from Academic Innovation (Jinnette Senecal, Steven Crawford, Celia Coochwytewa, and Aaron Kraft) discuss “open educational resources” with respect to use in higher education courses. We describe the purpose and/or potential benefits of utilizing OERs and reflect on considerations/barriers related to adoption. Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3nso7x2k6sj7442/InstructionByDesign_Season%2001Episode04%20Moving%20beyond%20the%20textbook%20for%20learning%20materials.pdf?dl=0 Resources from the episode: * A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources (OER)- http://oasis.col.org/bitstream/handle/11599/36/2015_UNESCO_COL_A-Basic-Guide-to-OER.pdf?sequence=6&isAllowed=y * World Open Educational Resources (OER) Congress 2012 Paris OER Declaration - http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/WPFD2009/English_Declaration.html * Open Educational Resources in the Commonwealth 2016 - http://oasis.col.org/bitstream/handle/11599/2441/2016_Phalachandra-Abeywardena_OER-in-Commonwealth-2016.pdf?sequence=4&isAllowed=y * Top Fears Shutting the Door on Open Education - https://campustechnology.com/articles/2017/02/01/top-fears-shutting-the-door-on-open-education.aspx * SCORM Overview - https://www.adlnet.gov/adl-research/scorm/ * Chapter 3 - Tools of the Trade: What Do You Need to Flip? In The Flipped College Classroom - http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319418537 * About Creative Commons Licenses - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ * OER Commons - http://oercommons.org * MERLOT - http://merlot.org * Khan Academy - https://www.khanacademy.org/ * Quizlet - https://quizlet.com/

John Stewart shares how he uses Open Educational Resources (OER) in his teaching on episode 125 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Any time you’re doing experimental work, you can anticipate some of the problems, but not all of them. –John Stewart Laziness at the faculty level hasn’t been invented […]

Inspired by #OERStories, this episode is all about Open Educational Resources (OER). Tom Vander Ark leads our examination of what the shift to digital means when it comes to content. We talk about what the difference between free and open resources, the impact of the rise of Chromebooks and the role of learning platforms with OER, as what all this means for teachers, districts and states.

Find out about the Open Education Resources and Initiatives at the University of Oxford! Featuring interviews from Liz Masterman, Sean Faughnan, Marion Manton, Sarah Wilkin & Stuart Lee.

Wie steht es 2015 um Open Educational Resources (OER) in den Bereichen Schule und Hochschule in Deutschland? Welche weiteren Entwicklungen sind in nächster Zukunft vorstellbar, wünschenswert oder zu befürchten? I. Begrüßung durch Dr. Ole Wintermann, Bertelsmann Stiftung II. Vortrag Dr. Dominic Orr, OER-Experte, ehemals OECD, Hannover III. Vortrag Jöran Muuß-Merholz, Transferstelle für OER, Hamburg IV. Diskussionsrunde mit Orr, Muuß-Merholz und Dr. Sandra Hofhues, Zeppelin Universität Friedrichshafen Moderation: Sebastian Horndasch, Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft Mitschnitt einer Veranstaltung am 04.05.2015 in Berlin. Veranstalter: Bertelsmann Stiftung, Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, Hochschulforum Digitalisierung, Transferstelle für OER

Der Bericht der Arbeitsgruppe aus Vertreterinnen und Vertretern der Länder und des Bundes zu Open Educational Resources (OER)* ist erschienen. Erstmals hat Deutschland damit eine Position zu OER. Für zugehOERt diskutieren Markus Deiman (Fernuniversität Hagen), Christian Heise (Open Knowledge Foundation), Jöran Muuß-Merholz (Transferstelle für OER) und John Weitzmann (Creative Commons) den Bericht und insbesondere die darin enthaltenen Empfehlungen mit Experten.

SaTP24.mp3 Listen on Posterous News of the Week:1) Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits - NYTimes 2) In a New Role, Teachers Move to Run Schools - NYTimesNEWARK — Shortly after landing at Malcolm X Shabazz High School as a Teach for America recruit, Dominique D. Lee grew disgusted with a system that produced ninth graders who could not name the seven continents or the governor of their state. He started wondering: What if I were in charge?       Three years later, Mr. Lee, at just 25, is getting a chance to find out. Today, Mr. Lee and five other teachers — all veterans of Teach for America, a corps of college graduates who undergo five weeks of training and make a two-year commitment to teaching — are running a public school here with 650 children from kindergarten through eighth grade.       3) A Full Year of Algebra Class on Your iPad - Gizmodo ...Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is launching the app, a new Algebra 1 app,  in a year-long pilot program in California, allowing students to work through practice questions, take notes, watch video lessons and more on their iPads. The app is the first on HMH Fuse, a platform developed by the publisher for delivering interactive educational content to mobile and touchscreen devices.4) Public Schools Face Lawsuit Over Fees - NYTimes...In the suit, to be filed in a state court in Los Angeles on Friday, the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California names 35 school districts across California that list on their Web sites the fees their schools charge for courses including art, home economics and music, for Advanced Placement tests and for materials including gym uniforms.5) Article on The iConnected Parent - Inside Higher Ed - on the new book, The iConnected Parent: Staying Close to Your Kids in College (and Beyond) While Letting Them Grow Up...Students who were in the most frequent contact were the least autonomous. Some of these students have parents who are using the calls to continue regulating their behavior as they did in high school, reminding them what and when to study, for example, and these students are the least satisfied with the parental relationship, describing it as controlling and conflictual. Others report a “best friend” phenomenon with their parents, wanting to talk to them daily to tell them everything that is going on, and these students seem to be trading off autonomy for closeness. By contrast, there are families with moderate contact who have learned how to maintain a connection but in healthy ways that permit growing independence of thought and behavior.6) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Stanford Report ...Students, here's an Internet site you can footnote. The entries in the online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy are written by leading experts and vetted by others before they appear. From quantum mechanics to "Human/Non-Human Chimeras," these articles, based on serious research, attract 700,000 visits per week.Main Topic: Creative Commons, Licensing, Fair Use & Copyright - joined by Student Success Teacher from Kamoka, Ontario, Rodd Lucier of the blog TheCleverSheep. Creative Commons - what is it? what's its history? how can students and educators use it effectively? The Creative Commons site A helpful Scribd synopsis & good starting point for understanding what CC is and how it might benefit student publishing *borrowed from http://www.masternewmedia.org/how-to-publish-a-book-under-a-creative-commons-license/ Open Educational Resources (OER) movement Open High School of Utah’s DeLaina Tonks: Open Education and Policy How do you see the role of Creative Commons within the OER movement? How can CC help?The mission of Creative Commons, to increase sharing and improve collaboration, is powerful for all of the right reasons. It hearkens back to the things we learned in Kindergarten about sharing and playing nice with others. The best part about Creative Commons is the breadth of licensing options available to educators in all arenas, and how nicely they dovetail with open-source curriculum, giving us the ability to select the license that best fits our needs. The challenge becomes increasing awareness, helping educators to understand how best to use Creative Commons and why it is important, and providing a forum in which to publish. The Open High School of Utah is doing its part by releasing several courses at the end of this month, all appropriately CC licensed, of course, which will draw attention to the merits of Creative Commons licensing. Keep up the good work! Connextions - a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Steven Downes - highlights a variety of resources for open education. A final word on the origin of copyright: Article I, section 8, clause 8 of the United States Constitution provides that Congress shall have the power: "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." ... At the time of the writing of the Constitution "science" denoted, broadly, knowledge and learning. So the core purpose of copyright law, as expressly stated in the Constitution is: to promote the progress of knowledge and learning. Tim's Tech Tidbit:  Skype and Call RecorderEndorsements: Roger: Reusable Prezi Templates Kevin: Jonathan Coulton: Great music licensed with Creative Commons Tim: Microsoft CyberSecurity Book for Teens (FREE) Cammy: Sugata Mitra’s TED talk (Child-Driven Education) & Quiz Buzzer for IWB   Permalink | Leave a comment  »