Open Education and Sharing

Arts and Open Source / Public Domain

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A collection of articles and videos looking at public domain and copyright issues in the arts

• Article Decades of movie poster history go online
• Article The Public Domain Starts Growing Again Next Year, and It’s About Time | EEF
• Article These 1923 Copyrighted Works Enter the Public Domain in 2019
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Open educational resources (OER)

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a collection of articles and videos looking at Open educational resources (OER) in schools

• Article Advocates develop framework for stewardship of open educational resources | Inside Higher Ed
• Article OER Had Its Breakthrough in 2017 | EdSurge News
• Article From Silos to Sharing: Why Are Open Educational Resources Still So Hard to Find? | EdSurge News
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Open source software as a competitive strategy: The case of Canvas LMS vs Blackboard:

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How Canvas used open-source to compete vs Blackboard for dominance of the US higher education LMS market (learning management stystem)

• Article Blackboard to Merge With Anthology, Forming a New Edtech Giant | EdSurge News
• Article Instructure Announces Canvas App Center (2013)
• Article What Is A Learning Management System? LMS Basic Functions And Features You Must Know
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Content, Resources for Teachers: Sharing Educational Resources

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a look at the various platforms available for teachers to share educational resources with each other

• Article Odilo raises $64M as its white-label e-learning library passes 8,500 customers and 170M users – TechCrunch
• Article Go1 nabs $100M at a $2B+ valuation to upgrade its curated enterprise learning platform – TechCrunch
• Article New Educator Exchange Enables College Faculty to Earn Money for Academic Resources
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Amazon and Education

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Amazon struggles with Inspire, an Open Education Resource (OER) platform for teachers. A collection of articles looking at Amazon and OE...

• Article Amazon Launches Udemy Competitor
• Article Amazon's Footprint Grows in K-12 Purchasing. Should We Be Worried? - Market Brief
• Article Amazon Launches 'Inspire,' a Free Education Resource Search Platform for Educators | EdSurge News
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Academic Research, Open Science and Open-Access Publishing

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Academic Research, Open Science and Open-Access Publishing

• Article The academic, economic and societal impacts of Open Access: an evidence-based review
• Article 65 out of the 100 most cited papers are paywalled
• Article Open access - Wikipedia
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Curation of Content: Media and Courses

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a collection of articles and resources about curating content for education

• Article A Platform Strategy Won’t Work Unless You’re Good at Machine Learning - Harvard
• Article Consumers and Curators: Browsing and Voting Patterns on Reddit

OpenStax and Open educational resources (OER)

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a collection of articles and videos looking at Open educational resources (OER) in schools

• Article Nearly half of U.S. colleges are using OpenStax textbooks this year
• Website OpenStax - openly licensed college textbooks that are absolutely free online and low cost in print
• Article Congress Funds $5 Million Open Textbook Grant Program in 2018 Spending Bill - SPARC
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Curation of Educational Content

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Curation of Educational Content

• Article Learning’s Future: Curation With Intent | Pathgather
• Article Go1 nabs $100M at a $2B+ valuation to upgrade its curated enterprise learning platform – TechCrunch
• Article Technology Tools Gooru - Education Grant from NGLC

Sci-Hub and Academic Research, Open Science, Open-Access Publishing

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Academic Research, Open Science and Open-Access Publishing

• Article A World Without Sci-Hub – Palladium
• Article Sci-hub: UK Police warn students to avoid science website - BBC News
• Article Meet the pirate queen making academic papers free online - The Verge

Examples of Open educational resources (OER)

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Examples of Open educational resources (OER)

• Website Big History - Curriculum - OER Open Education Resources
• Article Approved Open Math Textbooks | American Inst. of Mathematics

National Geographic - Educational Resources

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a collection of educational resources from National Geographic

• Article One Strange Rock - Educational Resources | National Geographic Society
• Website Resource Library | National Geographic Education
• Article Strategy Share: Exploring the World Through Documentary Filmmaking – National Geographic Education Blog
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Elsevier vs Universities - Academic Research and Open-Access Publishing

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Elsevier vs Universities - Academic Research and Open-Access Publishing

• Article The open access wars: How to free science from academic paywalls - Vox
• Article Germany vs Elsevier: universities win temporary journal access after refusing to pay | Nature
• Article Elsevier journal editors resign, start rival open-access journal
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Lumen - and Open educational resources (OER)

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a collection of articles and videos looking at Open educational resources (OER) in schools

• Article Introducing the OER Champion Playbook | Lumen Learning
• Article Lumen Seeks Continuous Improvement of OER in Two-Prong Approach -- Campus Technology
• Article SUNY System Enters 3-year Partnership with Lumen Learning
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Open Source Software - and Contributors, Community

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a collection of articles and videos looking at the challenges (and opportunities) of open-source software development

• Article Open source isn’t the community you think it is | InfoWorld
• Article A year in the life of an Open Source Lead
• Article The Internet Relies on People Working for Free - OneZero
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Open source software as a competitive strategy

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How to use open-source to compete

• Article Elite Colleges Started EdX as a Nonprofit Alternative to Coursera. How Is It Doing? | EdSurge News
• Article A Business Case for Open Source – Why You Should Contribute to the Open Source Community
• Article How I earn a living selling my open source software
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