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What do you think about the possibility of Elsevier buying Mendeley?
http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/17/elsevier-mendeley-education/
See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsevier#Criticism_and_controversies
Given this group's open access orientation, I think it's quite relevant to revisit how we (as a loose-tie community) might want to regroup in nonprofit open source forum.
I am personally shifting all my work to Zotero and other open reference managers; I think it may have been mistake to host this kind of group with a for-profit startup in the first place. But I'm curious to know what other OER folks think!
http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/17/elsevier-mendeley-education/
See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsevier#Criticism_and_controversies
Given this group's open access orientation, I think it's quite relevant to revisit how we (as a loose-tie community) might want to regroup in nonprofit open source forum.
I am personally shifting all my work to Zotero and other open reference managers; I think it may have been mistake to host this kind of group with a for-profit startup in the first place. But I'm curious to know what other OER folks think!
For people interested, I've blogged an attempt to visualise openness based on the the 4 principles of Access, Software, Format and Licensing. Would appreciate any feedback
http://scieng-elearning.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/visualising-openness.html
http://scieng-elearning.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/visualising-openness.html
Frédéric Kastner likes this.
Everyone, thanks for making this group a success so far. Would love to see some newer articles in this group, especially more open access articles.
...I wonder who will be the first to add an Open Education research article from 2012 :)
...I wonder who will be the first to add an Open Education research article from 2012 :)
Chahira Nouira and Jonathan Scott like this.
I've noticed that practically all of the papers associated with this group treat "meta-issues" of OER -- is this the appropriate place to offer such resources concretely, for test-runs & potential feedback? If not, then where?
Chris Blow Hello Margit,
There are a number of repositories of OER content that might be more appropriate if you are actually interested in putting OERs into use, such as http://www.oercommons.org
However, this OER group has an organic, anything-goes style — which I think is appropriate for OER hackers and theorists!
So, in that spirit, I would suggest yo...
There are a number of repositories of OER content that might be more appropriate if you are actually interested in putting OERs into use, such as http://www.oercommons.org
However, this OER group has an organic, anything-goes style — which I think is appropriate for OER hackers and theorists!
So, in that spirit, I would suggest yo...
22nd September
Hi all - the bibliography at the Mendeley group "Learner Use of OER" is nearly final. Please provide any comments before the end of Monday. Next week we finish the project and finalise the project report and bibliographies. Check out the tagging too !
About this group
"Open Education Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials freely available online for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student, or self-learner. Examples of OER include: full courses, course modules, syllabi, lectures, homework assignments, quizzes, lab and classroom activities, pedagogical materials, games, simulations, and many more resources contained in digital media collections from around the world." - http://wiki.oercommons.org/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page
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