Open Education Week kicks off starting Monday, with lots of events for all to enjoy online. For more information, including a schedule, go right to the source at www.openeducationweek.org. From this page, you can find a link for a mobile-optimized OEW schedule, as well as subscription links for all the popular calendars. Want more info […]
Snapshot: Devon Ritter, Secret Identity Revealed?
For the second edition of our new series of Saylor.org staff interviews, we spoke with Devon Ritter, our Special Projects Administrator. Hello Devon. Hi. So, can you please tell us a little bit about yourself? Sure. well, like today’s D.C., I am sort of from all over the place. I grew up in, and identify […]
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School of Open launches Monday with Open Education Week!
An announcement* from our friends: The School of Open is launching beginning this Monday for Open Education Week, March 11-15. A community of volunteers from P2PU, Creative Commons, Open.Michigan, and Wikimedia will offer free online courses on copyright, CC licenses, Wikipedia, open science, open data, open video formats, and more. The main site has the digs on […]
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Online Learning: data caps are a problem; openness is a solution
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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Management Information Systems, Mobile Apps (AKA BUS206: Appified)
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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