The Year of Open is a global focus on open processes, systems, and tools, created through collaborative approaches, that enhance our education, businesses, governments, and organizations. At its core, open is a mindset about the way we should meet… more »
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Last week the Dutch universities decided to boycot Elsevier, because of the negotiations around open access. This is a mayor step in the battle for open.
As a first step in boycotting the publisher, the Association of Universities in the Netherlands… more »
A couple weeks ago Martin Weller has published an interesting book about open education:
With the success of open access publishing, Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open education practices, the open approach to education has moved from the… more »
On the third day of the conference I had to do my own presentation. The title 'Pushing EdX to be Open' I submitted half a year ago, still did the job, the room was filled.
The slides of my presentation are below. As soon as the video is available I wil… more »
During the OpenEd 2011 conference Cable Green of Creative Commons had an interesting quote:
"The opposite of open is not closed, the opposite of open is broken"
I didn't see his presentation, I have to wait till they publish the video on the youtube c… more »
Next week we organize an Open Education week in the Netherlands. For next year the OpenCourseWare Consortium has taken the initiative to organize a worldwide Open Education Week for 5-10 March 2012:
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., (October 25, 2011) – 5-10 March 201… more »
Vandaag nam Fred Mulder afscheid als rector van OpenUniversiteit. Zoals ik al eerder berichtte neemt hij vanaf 1 januari één van twee nieuwe UNESCO-leerstoelen voor Open Educational Resources. Ter gelegenheid van zijn afscheid is er een Open Boek… more »
De nieuwste editie van EDUCAUSE Review heeft als onderwerp open. Ze hebben hierin een mooie selectie gemaakt van auteurs, o.a. David Wiley, Vicki David, George Siemens, Brian Lamb en Jim Groom. Hieronder de verschillende artikelen: The Open Future:… more »