Students, faculty want more support for eTextbooks
Faculty are struggling to find the time and support to actually adopt eTextbooks in the classroom, according to a new study released by the Educause Center for Analysis…
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Pearson creates searchable catalog of open educational resources
The publishing and education giant Pearson has wrangled up nearly 700,000 open educational resources into an easily searchable catalog through its OpenClass Exchange platform.
Open Data Institute releases schema for machine readable rights statements on data
The Open Data Institute, co-founded by OCW advisor Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt, has released a new schema for adding machine readable rights statements to open…
Blackboard and Mozilla digital badges could have role in MOOCs
Learning management system (LMS) giant Blackboard has partnered with the nonprofit Mozilla to introduce a new update to its LMS software that would support the use of digital…
Colleges will soon have free access to the edX platform
Colleges and Universities on June 1 will have access to the source code for what has been dubbed the “Linux of learning” after not-for-profit educational enterprise edX teamed…
UCI OpenChem aims to promote STEM education
The University of California, Irvine has launched a free online chemistry curriculum that offers videos to students and self-learners. To create UCI OpenChem, UC Irvine partnered with OpenCourseWare,…
Top higher-ed tech trends for 2013
A survey of colleges and universities previews some of the top technology trends set to emerge in 2013. The survey comes from Edudemic, a site connecting educators and…
Taking the next step with open source
By now everyone knows that open-source software can be a cheaper alternative to proprietary software, though there are costs associated with hosting and support. So, how can you…
New initiative targets accessible open resources
Postsecondary educators report growing challenges to implementing open educational resources (OERs), the most problematic being time loss spent combing multiple sources for supplemental educational material. But a new…