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?
[T]his report...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?
* How can access and usefulness for the users of OER initiatives be improved?
A collaborative editor is a software application that allows several people to edit a computer file using different computers. There are two types of collaborative editors, real-time and non-real-time. Real-time collaborative editors allow users to edit the same file at anytime, including editing at the same time. Non-real-time collaborative editors do not allow editing of the same file @ sametime
SLoodle is a project to integrate the VLE platform Moodle with the 3D world of Second Life. Imagine a Moodle course that, if you wanted, could turn into a proper 3D interactive classroom with all your Moodle resources available to your students in the virtual world.
This is a *really neat* site devoted to exploring tagging and artwork!
KidBASIC is an easy to use version of BASIC designed to teach young children the basics of computer programming. It uses traditional control structures like gosub, for/next, and goto, which helps kids easily see how program flow-control works. It has a built-in graphics mode which lets them draw pictures on screen in minutes, and a set of detailed, easy-to-follow tutorials that introduce programming concepts through fun exercises.
Mobwrite is an text box which allows multiple people to edit the same text at the same time. It's similar to the old-school Moon-edit package.
With the growth of open source software and other related trends, a culture of openness is advancing from the edges of society to the core of academic culture. In this article I provide an overview of how the expansion of open source software in culture at large has affected the world of education, describe how the greater use of open source software in education has unfolded hand-in-hand...
This article focuses on the sociopolitical aspects of implementing open source software (OSS) in schools. Supporters of such implementation make a compelling case for OSS based on the clear advantages it offers over commercial applications—advantages such as its low cost, its freedom from cumbersome usage restrictions, and its ethical value in promoting a more democratic form of tech practices.
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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.
A collaborative editor is a software application that allows several people to edit a computer file using different computers. There are two types of collaborative editors, real-time and non-real-time. Real-time collaborative editors allow users to edit the same file at anytime, including editing at the same time. Non-real-time collaborative editors do not allow editing of the same file @ sametime
This is a *really neat* site devoted to exploring tagging and artwork!
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