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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Hello Ittay, thank you for taking the time to let us and our readers get to know you! We’ll jump right in with our first question: What have you been up to with the Saylor Foundation? I started off doing some review work on the course MA241 and some fine tuning of the accompanying exam. This […]
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 […]
Welcome once again to the so-called ‘OER Newsletter’. Presented here, for your enjoyment, are some of the resources, tools, and sites that have crossed our digital desks in the past month. One of our favorites is TinEye Labs’ “Multicolr Search Lab”…in honor of the rapidly approaching spring, we selected a pastel palette for our image […]
This bonus quick post on free/open language learning resources is directly inspired by Laura Franklin’s 10 French Resources for Students Anywhere over on COERLL’s (fairly) new Open Up blog. Seriously, before reading on, go check ’em out: (These folks) –> https://blog.coerll.utexas.edu/ (Extra bonus: the blog is even CC BY.) Anyway. As some of our students and community members have […]
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