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Building a Global Digital Archive: Open Content Alliance (OCA)

December 21, 2006

The Open Content Alliance (OCA) represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that will help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia content. Content in the OCA archive will be accessible soon through this website and through Yahoo! The OCA will [...]

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Open Technology at IBM

December 16, 2006

Open Technology: Discover the promise. ‘Open technologies present a wealth of opportunities for educators. By supplying software and hardware that is interoperable and available with few or no licensing restrictions, open technology can enable development of collaborative learning environments within schools and higher education institutions around the world. IBM is committed to supporting open technologies [...]

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CoSN K-12 Open Technologies Leadership Initiative

December 16, 2006

CoSN K-12 Open Technologies Leadership Initiative. ‘The CoSN K-12 Open Technologies Leadership Initiative is sponsored by Apple, IBM and the Wm. & Flora Hewlett Foundation to support the adoption and utilization of open technologies in K-12 education around the world. Open source software, open standards and open hardware are poised to make a profound impact [...]

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Schools + Web 2.0 + Open Technologies = Education 2.0

December 15, 2006

Education 2.0: The next evolution of school software has arrived: Emergence of open technologies and open-source alternatives makes customizing school software a reality. ‘Aiming to customize their solutions to meet the individual needs of teachers and students, a growing number of school systems are ushering in a new breed of school software that relies on [...]

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RELOAD Project

December 15, 2006

RELOAD – Reusable eLearning Object Authoring & Delivery. ‘RELOAD is a project funded under the JISC Exchange for Learning Programme (X4L). The project focuses on the development of tools that are based on emerging learning technology interoperability specifications. The primary aims of this project are to: a) facilitate the creation, sharing and reuse of learning [...]

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Kaleidoscope TeLearn – Open Archive in Technology Enhanced Learning

December 4, 2006

TeLearn – Bringing worldwide visibility to your TEL research. ‘TeLearn is the first international Open Archive in Technology Enhanced Learning. Submitting your research publications or videos to Kaleidoscope TeLearn guarantees best possible exposure. Your work will be found, read and used by more researchers and you will be making a valuable contribution to Kaleidoscope’s mission [...]

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A Great Tool: OpenCourseWare Finder

November 28, 2006

OpenCourseWare Finder. Find open educational resources by typing in the search box or selecting tags. See also: OpenContent.Org Open Content Wiki. A place for collaborating on, scheming about, planning for, and developing open educational resources.

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eXe: eLearning XHTML editor

November 24, 2006

eXe: eLearning XHTML editor. ‘The eXe project is developing a freely available authoring application to assist teachers and academics in the publishing of web content without the need to become proficient in HTML or XML markup. eXe can export content as self-contained web pages or as SCORM 1.2 or IMS Content Packages. The eXe project [...]

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