OER Resources
Announcements
Major OER initiative announced in Brazil: The Ministry of Education of Brazil has just published an ordinance that determines that all educational resources paid for by the ministry which are to be used in basic education must be openly licensed and use open format/standards whenever possible. This will have huge impact on the number of educational resources available in Portuguese for this sector. Resources will be made available in a new open-source repository.
A short description of our work on the open education initiative.
Check out Stephen Downes' presentation from Hammamet, Tunisia Applications, algorithms and data: Open educational resources and the next generation of virtual learning.
Following a United States District Court ruling, Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature.
The UNESCO Chair on Open Technologies for Open Educational Resources and Open Learning has funded the filming of five regional consultations on OER leading to the 2nd International Summit on OER in Ljubljana in September. They are openly licensed and available here: Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East & North Africa.
From the Atlantic: Academics Want You to Read Their Work for Free. Publishing an open-access paper in a journal can be prohibitively expensive. Some researchers are drumming up support for a movement to change that.
