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Open Conference on Technology in Education: Teaching with Technology Idea Exchange 2008

July 8, 2007

Teaching with Technology Idea Exchange 2008 (TTIX): The Open Conference on Technology in Education. ‘The 4th Annual Teaching with Technology Idea Exchange will be June 5-6, 2008 on the UVSC campus in Orem, Utah, with a pre-conference workshop on faculty development June 4. Join other educators, developers, and innovators from across the nation and beyond [...]

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Elgg – An Open Source Social Networking Platform

April 28, 2007

Elgg. ‘Elgg is an open source software platform designed to allow people to easily connect and share resources. Established in March 2004 by Ben Werdmuller and David Tosh, Elgg allows you to create a social network and host it on your own infrastructure, modifying the features to fit your specific needs. Users establish personal digital [...]

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Article: Open Access Learning Environments

April 24, 2007

Open Access Learning Environments, Kenneth Mentor, Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, Vol. 10, Spring 2007. From the abstract: Educational institutions are increasingly adopting “closed” learning environments that hide learning materials in password-protected areas. While this may be a logical solution to a range of problems, much is lost in this mode of course delivery. [...]

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CC Learn: Promoting Interoperability Among Open Educational Resources Repositories

April 16, 2007

Wanted: Single standard for open-content licenses. ‘New effort aims to unite open educational resources (OERs) under a common framework for permissions. The movement toward open course materials for education has created something of a problem: Although a number of repositories have been set up to allow users to download sharable online content, many of these [...]

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UNESCO Open Training Platform

April 1, 2007

Open Training Platform. ‘UNESCO facilitates a collaborative access to existing free training courses and promotes open licensed resources to specialized groups and local communities for development. The objective behind this platform is to empower trainers or/and trainees with free resources, offer them a structured collaborative space to share their training but also to promote and [...]

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OpenSourceCMS – The Place to Test Content Management Systems

March 31, 2007

OpenSourceCMS. ‘The idea behind creating opensourceCMS revolved around the need to have a place where one could completely test content management systems in one place, before taking the time to install one. No one wants to install a CMS only to find it lacked key features or functions you need. Also, you may find a [...]

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OER Commons: Open Educational Resources

February 16, 2007

OER Commons: Open Educational Resources. ‘OER Commons is the first comprehensive open learning network where teachers and professors (from pre-K to graduate school) can access their colleagues’ course materials, share their own, and collaborate on affecting today’s classrooms. It uses Web 2.0 features (tags, ratings, comments, reviews, and social networking) to create an online experience [...]

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CSMonitor on OpenCourseWare

January 5, 2007

How to go to M.I.T. for free. ‘By the end of this year, the contents of all 1,800 courses taught at one of the world’s most prestigious universities will be available online to anyone in the world, anywhere in the world. Learners won’t have to register for the classes, and everyone is accepted. The cost? [...]

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