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Futuring open education at the University of Mary Washington OER Summit

Bryan Alexander

For example, community college adoption of OER depends on the behavior of institutions that most of their students transfer to. Which were very positive, including love for low cost, easy access, simulation games (for one class). It’s an exciting event, which I’m live-tweeting (hashtag #OERSummit ). Profits have collapsed.

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Futuring open education at the University of Mary Washington OER Summit

Bryan Alexander

For example, community college adoption of OER depends on the behavior of institutions that most of their students transfer to. In contrast developing nations both produce and consume open education and scholarship, widely, due to economic needs, state and NGO support, and increasingly accessible technology. Profits have collapsed.

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Open or shut?

Learning with 'e's

Increasing numbers of high profile academics (such as danah boyd and Martin Weller for example) are turning their backs on traditional methods of research dissemination, publishing their work exclusively on free-to-read open access platforms or on their blogs. They are the open scholars. There is a sense that a change is in the air.

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An Idea for the National Cancer Moonshot Initiative

Iterating Toward Openness

Cutting off access to research results – either the seminal (foundational) research or the very latest findings published earlier this morning – is a certain way to kill this kind of endeavor. The overwhelming majority of research on cancer is owned by publishers of academic journals like Elsevier and Springer.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The lawsuit contends that the publisher is “ predatory ” because it charges scholars to have their work published in open-access journals. ” Among its cargo: a Facebook / Internet.org satellite that was supposed to provide Internet access Facebook to African countries. Meanwhile on Campus. So unbelievably gross.

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Cultural hegemony and disruption

Learning with 'e's

Social media for example has achieved a remarkable success in eroding the power of previously elite media channels. One example is the encyclopaedia, long cherished as one of society's most important knowledge repositories. Wikipedia is popular because it can be accessed from anywhere using a web enabled mobile phone.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” The Chronicle of Higher Education on Elsevier “becoming a data company.” Khan Academy, for example, had $27.9 .” I mean, as long as data isn’t an issue and tech companies can build voice recognition software that recognizes languages other than English and accents other than Californian.