Open educational resources, electronic textbooks, and social media for teaching and learning at the University of Delaware and beyond.
Posted in OER, Repository on Jan 25th, 2012
The Open Knowledge Foundation, a UK-based non-profit organization promoting open access, has published a short guide to help people find public domain items online. This short guide offers an overview of what is public domain, where to find public domain works, and copyright licensing. Please share some of your own public domain sources on the [...]
Posted in OER, Repository on Nov 4th, 2011
I’m usually better than this at keeping up with social media and sharing fresh news. This one is a year old, but nevertheless worth sharing. Published in November of 2010 on the “Marc and Angel Hack Life” blog, 12 Dozen Places to Educate Yourself Online For Free is a gold mine for anyone motivated enough [...]
Posted in OER, Repository, Textbook on Oct 26th, 2011
While keeping an eye on the Twitter stream (hashtag #opened11) coming out of the 2011 Open Education conference in Park City, Utah, this tweet caught my attention: The Saylor Foundation is a non-profit that focuses on making higher education free for everyone. The mission of the Saylor Foundation is to make education freely available to [...]
Posted in Event, OER, Repository, Textbook on Oct 25th, 2011
The second annual UD Tech Fair was held on October 19. This event showcased a vast array of IT products and services available to the UD community. The booth I was assigned to was called Open Education. My main goal was to raise awareness about open educational resources (OER), open textbooks, college affordability, and the [...]
Posted in OER, Policy, Repository on Aug 30th, 2011
A recent article on the Guardian website by George Monbiot is making waves in social media. Monbiot claims that publicly-funded research should be available for free, not through expensive subscription or pay-per-article models. What we see here is pure rentier capitalism: monopolising a public resource then charging exorbitant fees to use it. Another term for [...]
Posted in Faculty Practice, OER, Repository on Jul 22nd, 2011
The University of Buffalo hosts an impressive number of case studies focused on science teaching and learning (378 as of July 21, 2011). The National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science offers educators in K-12 and college the chance to use their cases for free under some permitted uses. The mission of the National [...]
Posted in OER, Repository on Jun 27th, 2011
The Khan Academy is a non-profit organization focused on creating freely available lessons delivered as online video. It all started with one guy, Sal Khan, making videos to help a cousin with algebra. Their library is impressive, now hosting more than 2,000 videos. They have recently announced a new initiative to translate the subtitles to [...]
Posted in OER, Policy, Repository on May 17th, 2011
Yale University announced that they are making their 250,000 digital image library freely available on the web. See this slideshow that showcases some of the images that were released to the public. According to Cory Doctorow’s post and comments, “high resolution” might be exaggerated (most images are 700 pixels in width, making them unsuitable for [...]
Posted in Faculty Practice, OER, Repository, Textbook on Apr 6th, 2011
Guest post by Kevin Currie-Knight (bio). Before I even start this blog post, let me make something clear: I don’t think anything I’m doing is particularly cutting-edge or anything. In fact, I think if you ask my students, they’d probably say that I use quite a blend of traditional method with some non-traditional sources. So, [...]
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