There has been a lot of discussion in the blogosphere this week about the use of a Flickr image posted under a Creative Commons license in a Virgin Australia advertisement. (The parents of the child in the photo, who had
OpenEd-Metadata
Recent readings in the Open Ed course all discussed metadata and its importance to the usability of OER. The OECD report pointed about some of the challenges: “Adding metadata to a resource is time-consuming and faces the same problem software
OpenEd-Sustainability and business models
In the Week 4 readings for the Open Ed course, there was much discussion of sustainability and business models. Each report discussed these issues and concluded that they are “tricky.” :) These are critical points though, particularly as many of
OpenEd-Week 4 discussion-Part 2
And the final question: “Based on where the field is now, and these initial ideas about where it might go, what part of the open education movement is most interesting to you? Why? ” In Week 1, we debated the
OpenEd-Week 4 discussion-Part 1
Here are the questions for Week 4 of the Open Ed course: QUESTIONS: What do these overviews of the field have in common? What do they emphasize differently? What are the aims of the authors of each report? Do you