Attention journalists! Want a free resource that will help you locate data for better reporting? Read this update, originally posted by June Park at Creative Commons (original post here). This Saturday’s International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy will unveil a months-long collaborative effort — the Data Journalism Handbook, a free, CC BY-SA licensed book to help journalists find and use […]
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We’ve just returned from Cambridge 2012, a conference that combined the OpenCourseware Consortium’s global meeting and UK OER’s annual conference and was held at the very beautiful Queens College in Cambridge, UK. Themes of innovation, impact, and collaboration were sprinkled throughout each of the presentations. While we were familiar with a number of the initiatives […]
Have you ever wanted to start your own business? Or thought about approaching your work with an entrepreneurial mindset? Well, thanks to MIT OpenCourseWare, you’re in luck! Just yesterday, the organization announced that, thanks to a grant from the NASDAQ OMX Foundation, it is now able to provide a collection of entrepreneurship resources. Here’s a blurb from […]
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Next up in our Consulting Professor Profile series, I’m pleased to introduce you to Dr. G. Andrew Page, a professor working from Anchorage, Alaska. In this interview, he talks a bit about his experience, why he’s excited for the future of the open education movement, and what advice he has for educators looking to get involved in […]
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Attention educators: Did you know that we are hiring professors to consult for us and help build our courses? We’re looking for qualified individuals to design course “blueprints” for our online collection of college-level courses. Thanks to our amazing pool of consulting professors, we have over 200 complete courses available on www.saylor.org. Over the next […]