Opening Up Education:
The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge
With businesses and families spread out more and more, we’ve dug up 60 sites that will help everyone be on the same page.
The Creative Commons provides an alternative licensing system so that authors, musicians and other creators can grant rights to the public to use their work without payment but still retain control over their copyright material. Schools can use Creative Commons resources such as music, film clips and photographs in their projects and teaching resources free of charge.
Some of these issues are further analysed in this
report which addresses four main questions:
• How can sustainable cost/benefit models for OER initiatives be
developed?
• What are the intellectual property rights issues linked to OER
initiatives?
• What are the incentives and barriers for universities and faculty staff to
deliver their materials to OER initiatives?
Over the last six months, i've noticed an increasing number of press articles about how high school teens are leaving MySpace for Facebook. That's only partially true. There is indeed a change taking place, but it's not a shift so much as a fragmentation. Until recently, American teenagers were flocking to MySpace. The picture is now being blurred. Some teens are flocking to MySpace. And some teens are flocking to Facebook. Which go where gets kinda sticky, because it seems to primarily have to do with socio-economic class.
When I was in college most of the tools in this round up didn't exist. It was truly the dark ages of education! Well, okay, it was a just a few years ago, but just in this decade, and especially in the last few years, a handful of tools to make school life easier have appeared. What follows is the set of web tools I would put in my backpack were I headed back to school tomorrow.
* Glubble Trusted Surfing for children under 12 years of age enables families to be sure they only see the best of the web they choose to allow.
* Glubble Altered Search makes Google and Yahoo show results from childrens trusted Glubbleworld instead of the world wide web.
* Child friendly look and feel with interfaces for pre-reading and reading age young children.
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Great list of tips for PCs and Macs!
Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge
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