Filed under Things That Really Get Our Goat (actually, not really; that isn’t one of our blog categories…but pretend). The Chronicle‘s recent article “Caps on Data Use Dim Online Learning’s Bright Future” is missing a big part of the story in open licensing and open media formats. We don’t blame them, because in all the buzz about new-style […]
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David’s done it again. You might remember us mentioning our first appified* course (“We Love Resources: Special ME102 App Edition“) a couple weeks ago, and now we’re happy to chat up one of our courses that flies under the radar: Management Information Systems. This course “bridges the gap between computer science and the well-known business […]
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Still confused on how to calculate that annoying equation? Can’t seem to wrap your head around derivatives? Then cheer up, because MA101-EXC Single-Variable Calculus I is now available on our iTunes U channel. Straight from Isaac Newton, Archimedes, and Gottfried Leibniz to your iPad (or iPhone if you prefer), single variable calculus will break down those complicated functions and […]
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In May of last year, a petition was added to WhiteHouse.gov’s We the People site, requesting that the government of the United States “require free access over the Internet to scientific journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research.” Much research that receives federal funding (which is to say, citizens’ tax dollars) is not subject to any kind […]
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We are pleased to announce that yesterday’s OER Newsletter will be the last. Why “pleased”? Well, because it really isn’t going anywhere; we’re just going to improve on it a little. First, a brief history: the OER Newsletter began its run in private circulation; we used it to tell our academic consultants about resources we had […]