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Beginnings- Bookboon
Beginnings- Bookboon
"Bookboon, is an online book publishing company based in London, United Kingdom. Bookboon originates from Denmark where it was founded in 1988 as Ventus Publishing. Bookboon offers PDF eBooks which can be downloaded for free on the company’s website. All books are exclusively written for Bookboon by professors and experts within their fields of expertise.[citation needed] Subjects range from travel guides and business to university textbooks.[1][2][3] The company has experienced over ten million downloads over the course of 2011, which also marked a 500% growth of the eBook publisher’s download numbers.[4] Bookboon is currently the largest publisher of eBooks in the world ..."
Open Content - David Viley 1988.
Open Content - David Viley 1988.
"Open content or OpenContent is a neologism coined by David Wiley in 1998 which describes a creative work that others can copy or modify".
Uploaded on Apr 12, 2010
Dr. David Wiley is Associate Professor of Instructional Psychology and Technology at Brigham Young University. He is also the Chief Openness Officer of Flat World Knowledge and Founder and board member of the Open High School of Utah. He was formerly Associate Professor of Instructional Technology and Director of the Center for Open and Sustainable Learning at Utah State University.
About TEDx, x = independently organized event
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
Open Educational Resources (OER) The Term 2002
"The term "open educational resources" was first adopted at UNESCO's 2002 Forum on the Impact of Open Courseware for Higher Education in Developing Countries".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources
"The term OER was coined just 10 years ago at UNESCO’s Global Forum on the Impact of OpenCourseware on Higher Education."
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/resources/news-and-in-focus-articles/in-focus-articles/2012/open-educational-resources-congress-passes-historic-declaration/
CORE (OER) 2003
"The China Open Resources for Education (CORE) is a non-profit organization. Its mission is to promote closer interaction and open sharing of educational resources between Chinese and international universities, which CORE envisions as the future of world education."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Open_Resources_for_Education
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...for_Education
OER Commons 2007
"OER Commons is a freely accessible online library located at www.oercommons.org that provides a web-based infrastructure for teachers and others to search and discover Open Educational Resources (OER) and other freely available instructional materials.
OER Commons is a project created by ISKME, an independent non-profit organization based in Half Moon Bay, California, founded by Lisa Petrides in 2002. Launched in 2007, OER Commons aggregates Open Educational Resources, which are teaching and learning materials that are openly licensed for anyone to use and reuse, in order to support a global network for engaging with flexible, adaptable curriculum"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OER_Commons
Link: http://www.oercommons.org/
Open Textbook Initiative Milestones (OER) Nov 2010
"An open textbook is a textbook licensed under an open copyright license, and made available online to be freely used by students, teachers and members of the public. Many open textbooks are distributed in other printed, e-book, or audio formats that may be downloaded or purchased at little or no cost.
Part of the broader open educational resources movement, open textbooks increasingly are seen as a solution to challenges with traditionally published textbooks, such as access and affordability concerns. Open textbooks were identified in the New Media Consortium's 2010 Horizon Report as a component of the rapidly progressing adoption of open content in higher education".
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_textbook
TED ED Lessons Worth Sharing Mar 2012
"TED-Ed’s commitment to creating lessons worth sharing is an extension of TED’s mission of spreading great ideas. Within the growing TED-Ed video library, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed platform. This platform also allows users to take any useful educational video, not just TED's, and easily create a customized lesson around the video. Users can distribute the lessons, publicly or privately, and track their impact on the world, a class, or an individual student. "
Link: http://ed.ted.com/
2012 Paris OER Declaration Jun 2012
"Ministers of Education, senior policy makers, expert practitioners, researchers and relevant stakeholders from around the world gathered for the 2012 World Open Educational Resources (OER) Congress at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris to pass the 2012 Paris OER Declaration. The Declaration marks a historic moment in the growing movement for Open Educational Resources and calls on governments worldwide to openly license publicly funded educational materials for public use."
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