These 100 awesome open courses, ranging from health and medicine to engineering to religion to policy making to media will get you on your way.

These 100 awesome open courses, ranging from health and medicine to engineering to religion to policy making to media will get you on your way.

http://www.selectcourses.com/blog/2009/10...

http://www.selectcourses.com/blog/2009/100-awesome-open-courses-for-those-who...

This paper describes the economic impact of legal metadata and open content in information society. The paper also analyses the challenges that individual digital open licensing poses to collecting societies. In the first part we define open content and the meaning of legal metadata. In second part of the paper we concentrate to the economics of open content and how it changes the way creative c...

This paper describes the economic impact of legal metadata and open content in information society. The paper also analyses the challenges that individual digital open licensing poses to collecting societies. In the first part we define open content and the meaning of legal metadata. In second part of the paper we concentrate to the economics of open content and how it changes the way creative communities work. In third part we describe the European collective societies system and how they use their dominant market position to block authors from using open content licensing.

http://fr.creativecommons.org/articles/fi...

http://fr.creativecommons.org/articles/finland.htm

But besides the opening up of access to education, we’ve also seen an opening up of its definition—no longer confined to the traditional world of academia, “education” now spans a much broader spectrum of learning, inspiration and curiosity. Smart blogs, online magazines, and publishers like TED and Pop!Tech have made enormous strides toward this evolution by offering content that is both inte...

But besides the opening up of access to education, we’ve also seen an opening up of its definition—no longer confined to the traditional world of academia, “education” now spans a much broader spectrum of learning, inspiration and curiosity. Smart blogs, online magazines, and publishers like TED and Pop!Tech have made enormous strides toward this evolution by offering content that is both intellectually and emotionally engaging, bringing an element of production value to the traditional lecture format.

http://www.good.is/post/new-school-how-th...

http://www.good.is/post/new-school-how-the-web-liberalized-liberal-arts-educa...

"The mission of P2PU is to leverage the power of the Internet and social software to enable communities of people to support learning for each other. P2PU combines open educational resources, structured courses, and recognition of knowledge/learning in order to offer high-quality low-cost education opportunities. It is run and governed by volunteers."

"The mission of P2PU is to leverage the power of the Internet and social software to enable communities of people to support learning for each other. P2PU combines open educational resources, structured courses, and recognition of knowledge/learning in order to offer high-quality low-cost education opportunities. It is run and governed by volunteers."

http://p2pu.org/

http://p2pu.org/

Educational Technology, web 2.0, VLEs, open content, e-learning, plus some personal stuff thrown in.

Educational Technology, web 2.0, VLEs, open content, e-learning, plus some personal stuff thrown in.

http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/

http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/

Their aim is to release digital textbooks free of charge, with students paying for the print copy if they want. What is more interesting though is the way they take the notion of the text book and make it more of a social object

Their aim is to release digital textbooks free of charge, with students paying for the print copy if they want. What is more interesting though is the way they take the notion of the text book and make it more of a social object

http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/minisite/

http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/minisite/