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Badges Go To Graduate School

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I’ve just started awarding the first badges from my graduate seminar, IPT 692R: Introduction to Open Education. You can see the first badges I’ve issued here (including some to people outside BYU): http://openeducation.us/badges-earned I’ve used a very lightweight mechanism for issuing badges through the Mozilla Open Badge Infrastructure that I want to share. I know … Read more

The Big Publishers’ Strategy on Boundless

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Boundless’ authoring model appears to be based on “reverse engineering” publishers’ most popular textbooks. The big publishers’ court case comes down to a single question – is reverse engineering the same as creating a “derivative work?” The question is critical because the creation of derivative works is regulated by copyright. If the court finds that … Read more

Open Education Conference 2012 Updates

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I’m happy to announce the conference theme for #OpenEd12 – “Open Education: Beyond Content.” You can read more about the conference theme below, or skip straight to the Call for Papers and Call for Action. Open Education has come of age. The tiny movement that began in the late 1990s as a desire to increase … Read more