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Webinar 65 – Open Education Network – Copyright Literacy: The next webinar on November 10th will discuss the Open Education Network (OEN). OEN is a community that supports open educational practices in higher education. It has over 1,600 member campuses in the US. The webinar will cover the growth of OEN, why two UK universities have joined, and their efforts to involve more libraries. Topics will include open textbook publishing, academic outreach, and the role of open textbooks in university strategies. The webinar will feature speakers from OEN and universities. The webinar starts at 11:00 via Blackboard Collaborate, and the Big Fat Copyright Quiz of the Year is scheduled for December 8th. - IP topics: Intellectual Property topics! #ip #intellectualproperty #copyright

As an educator trying to find suitable educational videos, have you ever run into one (or more) of these challenges? 👉🏽 Overwhelming amount of content to choose from 👉🏽 Quality and accuracy concerns 👉🏽 Meeting the diverse and evolving needs of students 👉🏽 Copyright and licensing issues Check out this article from our very own Sandeep Y. for a deep dive into how you can solve these challenges with Ed-ready videos. #edready #educationalvideo #digitallearning https://lnkd.in/dxcnTvrN

We are creating a unified MOOCs (online courses) search engine that understands the search queries. We use a sentence transformer, create a custom index using the approximate nearest neighbor algorithm, and custom ranking mechanism. This paper talks about our search platform, moocmaven. It's available to the public! Try to search which course you want to learn: https://moocmaven.com This is also my first paper that was published internationally. 😅 MOOCMaven: Bridging M-Learning and Open Data for Enhanced Unified MOOC Exploration https://lnkd.in/e9HMHQpR

We often talk about copyright and licenses, in #OpenEducation. The “bootcamps” from CC cover a lot of ground about those. Particularly relevant in the United States, where #MoralRights aren’t enshrined into law. Particularly relevant in #CommunityColleges where the financial benefits of #OERs go beyond the material itself.

Teaching undergrads is always fun. Exhibit below: in one of my first year courses, students give a ted talk. In one such talk today on how good visuals can facilitate excellent research papers, a student (Anuj Palrecha) used a picture of me (without consent). Then said, should have asked for copyright! Love it!

This month’s issue of the Online Learning Journal is out now! Click the link for your FREE download, and read up on new Massive Open Online Courses developments, the impact of online exams, the experience of refugees in online higher education, and more. Download now - https://lnkd.in/grqYQigb #olc #onlinelearning #onlinelearningconsortium #highered #highereducation #olj #onlinelearningjournal #download #research #report #professionaldevelopment #teachers #students #digitallearning

With new digital learning landscapes, this course offered insight and practical application of the latest online teaching strategies to assess student progress effectively.