http://notus.org.pl/rss.php Informacje pl pl http://notus.org.pl/index.php/a,s,id,33600,The-6-Best-and-Worst-Fake-Apple-Tablet-Ads.html Collected by theweek Well before yesterday’s grand unveiling of Apple’s long-awaited tablet computer, rabid fans began filming their own mock ‘commercials.’ Steve Jobs is rehearsing his pitch in the mirror. Bloggers are already at their keyboards. Today, after years of speculation, Apple will unveil its new tablet device, unofficially nicknamed the [...] 2010-01-29 http://notus.org.pl/index.php/a,s,id,33600,The-6-Best-and-Worst-Fake-Apple-Tablet-Ads.html http://notus.org.pl/index.php/a,s,id,9606,Another-Listing-of-Sites-for-OERs.html Tony Bates' listing of OER sites adds yet another useful selection to an ever-growing collection of annotated listings. ____JH "Whatever happened to learning objects? Well, they've been replaced (or rather swallowed up) by open educational resources. Increasingly, more and more institutions are making online educational resources and course materials available free of charge for educational or non-profit purposes. So will content be free in education in the future? I think this deserves a blog entry to itself! (to come). In the meantime, I list here web sites that provide access to free material." 2009-01-12 http://notus.org.pl/index.php/a,s,id,9606,Another-Listing-of-Sites-for-OERs.html http://notus.org.pl/index.php/a,s,id,20712,Blackboard-Loses-on-Appeal.html Inside Higher Ed reports on Blackboard's latest loss, which is good news for universities and colleges who use open source software because we can be sure that despite their disclaimers, Blackboard would certainly move against open source courseware if they succeed against Desire2Learn and other private companies. Blackboard's loss is also an affirmation of common sense since anyone with long-time experience in course management software knew that Blackboard's patent claims were simply assertions, not valid original contributions to courseware delivery methods. ____JH____"Both companies appealed the parts of the case they'd lost to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which has nationwide jurisdiction over U.S. patent claims. Its highly technical decision upheld the lower court's conclusion that Blackboard's claims 1-35 were invalid. But the three-judge panel rejected the lower court's finding that Blackboard's patented learning system had originated the approach of giving a single user with a single log-in multiple roles, such as being a teacher in one course and a student in another.""The appeals panel embraced Desire2Learn's argument that such technology existed in 'prior art,' in this case previously existing course management systems such as Serf and CourseInfo 1.5. The appeals court essentially ruled that the lower court judge had framed Blackboard's claim incorrectly for the jury, said Bruce T. Wieder, a lawyer for the Washington firm of Dow Lohnes who was not involved in the case. Having done so, the Federal Circuit court "could have said, 'This is how you should have interpreted it, you go look at it again,' " Wieder said. "But instead, the court said, 'Since we've seen what was argued, we now can say that the district court wouldn't have come to any conclusion,' and declared those claims invalid." 2009-08-22 http://notus.org.pl/index.php/a,s,id,20712,Blackboard-Loses-on-Appeal.html http://notus.org.pl/index.php/a,s,id,31081,DiscoverEd.html This Creative Commons site provides a starting point to search for open educational resources. Search results are given a brief description and identified by Curator, Education Level, Language, License, and Subject Tags. ___JH____"DiscoverEd is an experimental project from ccLearn which attempts to provide scalable search and discovery for educational resources on the web. Metadata, including the license and subject information available, are exposed in the result set. We are particularly interested in open educational resources (OER) and are collaborating with other OER projects to improve search and discovery capabilities for OER, using DiscoverEd and other available tools. Contact us if you are interested in this work. DiscoverEd is a prototype intended to explore how structured data may be used to enhance the search experience; there are a number of known issues. Read our white paper that describes the rationale for and design of DiscoverEd, as well as our thoughts regarding possible future enhancements that could make the tool, or other search tools like it, even more compelling. DiscoverEd is also being discussed among participants of the OER search and discovery community. You can also find slides on Slideshare about DiscoverEd. If you are aware of any related resources, please post them to the OpenEd community site, and we will cross-post them to this FAQ as we can." 2010-01-15 http://notus.org.pl/index.php/a,s,id,31081,DiscoverEd.html http://notus.org.pl/index.php/a,s,id,45442,We-had-eight-years-of-Bush-and-Cheney-Now-you-get-mad.html Written by Nica24 I visit Rosie O’Donnell’s blog almost every day, I enjoy her. I am always amazed at the nasty, sometimes violent reaction she brings out in some people. But I want to pass this on, Rosie printed it on the home page of her blog, it was sent to her. I’m sending it as [...] 2010-04-01 http://notus.org.pl/index.php/a,s,id,45442,We-had-eight-years-of-Bush-and-Cheney-Now-you-get-mad.html http://notus.org.pl/index.php/a,s,id,20730,LeMill-Web-Community.html The LeMill Web Community site is available for sharing online learning resources. The site is viewable in nine languages; to orient to what is offered take the Tour and consult the FAQ. Thanks to the Development Gateway for information about this site. ___JH _____ "LeMill is a web community for finding, authoring and sharing learning resources. First at all, you can find learning resources. You can use the resources you find in your own teaching or learning. You can also add your own learning content to LeMill. You may edit your content and combine larger chunks of learning resources from individual media pieces. If you wish you may also join some of the groups producing or editing learning resources. In LeMill the content is always easily found where and whenever you need them." 2009-08-22 http://notus.org.pl/index.php/a,s,id,20730,LeMill-Web-Community.html http://notus.org.pl/index.php/a,s,id,20729,List-of-Learning-Object-Repositories.html This is a useful list of the major learning object repositories, divided into general and discipline-specific listings. The web pages are hosted by the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee at the Center for International Education. ____JH 2009-08-22 http://notus.org.pl/index.php/a,s,id,20729,List-of-Learning-Object-Repositories.html http://notus.org.pl/index.php/a,s,id,31082,Openness-and-the-Future-of-Higher-Education.html This issue of the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL) contains a number worthwhile articles about the significance of open resources for academics. (Thanks to Russell Poulin of WCET for this link.) ___JH____"We are pleased to present this very topical issue of the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL) on openness. Notions of open scholarship, open access publication, open educational resources, tuition-free institutions, and open source software continue to gain popular, research, and commercial interest. Thus, I was very pleased to receive an email 18 months ago from David Wiley offering to guest edit a special issue of IRRODL on openness. He and his colleague John Hilton III coordinated a call for proposals and had over 25 responses. From these, 12 were selected for full paper development, and 8 survived peer review and appear as the contents of this issue. Brigette and I would like to thank David and John for their considerable efforts in very actively managing the editorial work involved. I am sure you will join me in congratulating David and John as well as the authors for contributing to this very important and timely special issue. Finally, links are provided to the archived recordings of 5 sessions presented by Athabasca University as part of our Open Access Week celebrations. Enjoy!Terry Anderson, Editor, International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning" 2010-01-15 http://notus.org.pl/index.php/a,s,id,31082,Openness-and-the-Future-of-Higher-Education.html http://notus.org.pl/index.php/a,s,id,56392,Sweetest-Break-up-Letter-Ever.html source 2010-06-15 http://notus.org.pl/index.php/a,s,id,56392,Sweetest-Break-up-Letter-Ever.html http://notus.org.pl/index.php/a,s,id,9617,The-Ultimate-Guide-to-Using-Open-Courseware.html Another informative collection of categorized and annotated resource links for self-directed learning--this listing was compiled by Gartheeban Ganeshapillai. I especially like the inclusive scope of this listing. ___JH_____"While you can't get college credit for taking open courseware classes, you can make the most of the information and education they offer both in personal and professional aspects of your life. After all, even if you're not working towards a degree, taking the same courses as those in the ivy league can't possibly hurt you and may even be able to better keep you informed and on the cutting edge of what's going on in your field. So how can you make the most of these free online courses? Here are resources we've collected that can help you search for classes, find information and learn everything you need to know about how open courseware works." 2009-01-12 http://notus.org.pl/index.php/a,s,id,9617,The-Ultimate-Guide-to-Using-Open-Courseware.html http://notus.org.pl/index.php/a,s,id,20731,EduResources-Portal-Closed.html The EduResources Portal was closed this month. The Portal, which was formerly at http://sage.eou.edu/SPT was shut down by Eastern Oregon University (EOU) when the server could no longer be maintained. Because of financial pressures, the University must focus on "supporting hardware and software that directly contribute to the central mission of the institution." I began the EduResources Portal in 2003 while completing a sabbatical research project; the Portal was established to provide a starting point for instructors who sought to locate online instructional repositories. When I retired from EOU in June 2004, I continued to maintain the Portal from a distance with the assistance of the Computer Center at EOU. The Portal operated in conjunction with this EduResources Weblog; the Portal provided organized links to sites that contain instructional resources for higher education and the Weblog provided commentary about news related to online instructional resources. I intend to continue the EduResources Weblog for at least another year. I recommend that users who relied on the EduResources Portal make use of the TLT Group's Collection of Collections to guide their searches for online resources: "Exploration Guide: Collections, Repositories, Referatories of Instructional Resources on the Web." 2009-08-22 http://notus.org.pl/index.php/a,s,id,20731,EduResources-Portal-Closed.html http://notus.org.pl/index.php/a,s,id,9621,Open-Education-News.html David Wiley announces the startup of Open Education News. This is another site to add to your list of rss feeds to monitor happenings in the field of open education. ___JH_____ "The young field of open education is gaining momentum and energy. As additional projects, foundations, universities, and other participants join the movement, the need increases for a single source to gather, sort, analyze, synthesize, and disseminate news related to open education. As a field, open education is now where the field of open access was a few years ago. Peter Suber's wonderful Open Access News provides an invaluable service to the OA community, and we intend to replicate this service with Open Education News." "Open Education News is essentially a group blog. A number of individuals from the US, South Africa, and eventually other locations daily monitor the internet for news related to open education. We then aggregate these items and publish them individually with minor commentary. Occasionally we'll publish bigger pieces of our own authorship; analyses and such. If you know of some open education news we should write about, contact David Wiley at david.wiley@gmail.com." "Open Education News is graciously supported by the Open Society Institute and the Shuttleworth Foundation." 2009-01-12 http://notus.org.pl/index.php/a,s,id,9621,Open-Education-News.html http://notus.org.pl/index.php/a,s,id,20734,WideOpenEducation.html WideOpenEducation is a promising new blog that focuses on resources for higher education. The weblog is sponsored by the same creator who developed the excellent Open Education Datatbase (OEDb). The WOE site will include an rss feed for subscribers and will be searchable by key words. It will be interesting to see how this site develops. _____JH 2009-08-22 http://notus.org.pl/index.php/a,s,id,20734,WideOpenEducation.html http://notus.org.pl/index.php/a,s,id,50864,9-Deadly-Words-User-By-A-Women.html 1) Fine This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right and you need to shut up. 2) Five Minutes If she is getting dressed, this means a half an hour. Five minutes is only five minutes if you have just been given five more minutes to watch the game before helping around [...] 2010-05-01 http://notus.org.pl/index.php/a,s,id,50864,9-Deadly-Words-User-By-A-Women.html http://notus.org.pl/index.php/a,s,id,43755,The-10-Best-Stories-in-the-Star-Wars-Expanded-Universe.html Written by Adam Pawlus Since 1977, George Lucas licensed companies like Del-Rey, Marvel, Dark Horse, and Bantam Publishing to sell you paper with the words “Star Wars somewhere on the cover. He’s also allowed several companies to make videogames with “Star Wars on the title screen, and then created LucasArts to churn them out more efficiently. [...] 2010-03-22 http://notus.org.pl/index.php/a,s,id,43755,The-10-Best-Stories-in-the-Star-Wars-Expanded-Universe.html