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OpenMuch of the work of JISC CETIS is underpinned by the principle of openness.
"Openness means ensuring that there is little or no barrier to access for anyone who can contribute to a particular development or use its output." Wilbert Kraan, JISC CETIS Assistant Director. The Centre promotes various aspects of openness including:1. open development processes and governance models for interoperability specifications and standards (open standards); 2. open access to standards documents, educational content, educational tools and widgets, and educational applications of Linked Data and the Semantic Web (open educational resources, open administrative data, open assessment); 3. openness of educational communities of practice and interest. Further discussion of openness can be found in the OER briefing paper 2008 by Li Yuan, Sheila MacNeill and Wilbert Kraan. This new topic (2011) pulls together some of the current discussions around openness, its advantages and drawbacks. Open Educational Resources is a related topic.Articles
08 Mar 2012
Phil Barker
It’s open education week, lots of interesting events are happening and lots of reflections being made on what open education means. One set of reflections that caught my eye was a trio of posts from Jisc programme managers David, Amber and Lawrie: three personal attempts to draw a picture of the open education space to [...]
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07 Mar 2012
Sheila MacNeill
As you are now doubt aware, this week is Open Education Week. I've been enjoying following various activities, including some great contributions and thoughts from JISC colleagues. But on a more personal level, I was delighted to get an confirmation email yesterday that the Stanford open course on Natural Language Processing is starting [...]
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Data Visualisation
05 Mar 2012
Phil Beauvoir
Apple will be introducing a new security feature called Gatekeeper in the next release of Mac OS X, Mountain Lion, due out this summer. This means that, by default, the Mac user will have to grant access to install and run apps that have not been downloaded from Apple’s app store or [...]
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27 Feb 2012
Phil Beauvoir
The title of this post might suggest that I’m about to write about the technicalities of Source Control Management systems and how we can all share our code in geek heaven. Much as I’d love to indulge my technical predilections, instead I want to provide a brief overview of an interesting aspect of this phenomenon that goes beyond sharing code and which has implications for social networking and distributed collaboration in other disciplines.
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25 Aug 2011
John Robertson
A brief rapid response to @Tore ’s request for a ten point manifesto on OER (& ok it was 25 minutes)
Andy Powell makes the key point: “@tore open, open, open, open, open, open, open, open, open, open - no need to mention ‘e’ or ‘r’ #nordlet” RE http://bit.ly/nwgIYE
But if I was writing a manifesto on [...]
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Open ResourcesOpen Educational Resources – Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education
Date: Sep 2008
Open Educational Resources- Opportunities and Challengers for Higher Education. A briefing Paper by Li Yuan, Sheila MacNeil and Wilbert Kraan
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