open content

I went to grab a graphic for a presentation from the CC Metrics wiki this morning, and had two problems. First, some overly zealous people have placed a truly “free/libre/open” line in the graph. This is just going to confuse my audience. They are hearing about CC for the first time and don’t care about … Read more

Another full time employment opportunity in the open education space! The OpenCourseWare Consortium seeks to recruit a Community College Outreach Manager for a full time, two-year contract. The Outreach Manager will play a key role in helping the Consortium realize its goal of increasing the participation of community colleges in the open education movement. The … Read more

This took me the better part of an hour to figure out so I thought I’d share. I’ve been trying to get Matt Turner‘s GetBook.py working. It’s a Python script to generate epub ebooks from the books made available online by the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University. He wrote … Read more