I have just returned from OpenEd 2015 in Vancouver, a conference focused on exploring developments in open educational resources (OER) and open educational practices. I attended this conference when it was last hosted in Vancouver in 2012 and was delighted to… Read more ›
On May 27th I attended a workshop organized by BC Campus titled Adopting Open Textbooks held at Camosun College in Victoria. BC Campus has been running a series of these workshops starting off at Thompson Rivers University, University of Northern… Read more ›
Last year at the OpenEd 2012 Conference held at UBC, the BC government committed to being the first province in Canada to offer students free, online, open textbooks for a variety of popular subjects. It was an exciting announcement for… Read more ›
I was searching for a piece of audio today for a short video that I am putting together. While I can think of a number of popular pieces of music which would suit my need, I would be breaching… Read more ›
Just stumbled upon this great animated video which may be helpful to instructors wanting to explore using open educational resources (OER) in their instructional material. The first part of the video is really useful for people getting started with OER, and the second part gets into the details of combining open licenses while respecting the range… Read more ›
Below find the winning entry for the ‘Why Open Education Matters’ video competition launched earlier this year by Creative Commons, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Open Society Foundation. The winning video was produced by the Blinktower creative agency based in Cape Town,… Read more ›
The OpenContent UCT project at the University of Cape Town tries to encourage academics to create resources which can be shared and reused by their colleagues as well as other educators or self-learners. These resources, shared openly on the internet,
Nathan Yergler from Creative Commons has created an interactive visualization representing the three conceptual layers of a Creative Commons License. I presume that many people do not realize that when they use a Creative Commons they are in fact getting:
Two weeks ago I attended a meeting of minds interested in setting up a local South African Wikimedia chapter. Facilitated by the African Commons Project and the Wikimedia Foundation the meeting brought together people from academia, industry, software programming/support and
I respect copyright law, and in doing so I always try and source openly licensedimages, software, video, audio, research, courses, and presentations. Because resources from these types of sources have an open license such as Creative Commons I can use