April 16th, 2007 by Jorge Goncalves
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 [...]
March 27th, 2007 by Jorge Goncalves
OpenLearn 2007 Conference - Researching Open Content in Education, 30-31 October 2007, Milton Keynes, UK. ‘This conference recognises the research challenge alongside the business challenge of providing, using and sustaining free and open resources and invites contributions and participation from those who are interested in how to research open content and what the findings are [...]
November 2nd, 2006 by Jorge Goncalves
The Open University launches OpenLearn. ‘The Open University’s commitment to broadening access to education is being taken to another level with the launch of OpenLearn, its major new open content initiative. The OpenLearn website will make educational resources freely available on the internet, with state-of-the-art learning support and collaboration tools to connect learners and educators. [...]