Recently, MITx and HarvardX released de-identified learning data collected by edX. This article in the Boston Globe digs into the demographics of MOOC learners: Of the 842,000 students who registered…
Continue readingHarvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have released a set of open-source visualization tools for working with a rich trove of data from more than a million people…
Continue readingCable Green, Director of Global Learning at Creative Commons, is the best in the business at making the policy case for Open Educational Resources. Here he is in action (via…
Continue readingGive the Data to the People By HARLAN M. KRUMHOLZFEB. 2, 2014 LAST week, Johnson & Johnson announced that it was making all of its clinical trial data available to…
Continue readingIn a Chronicle of Higher Education article out today, University of Hawaii interim president and former chief information officer David Lassner predicts 2014 will be a big year for openness…
Continue readingPosted 7 Oct 2013 by Devon Hanel A recent study funded by the European Commission and undertaken by analysts at Science-Metrix, a Montreal-based company that assesses science and technology organizations,…
Continue readingIn a speech today, Human Resource Development Minister Dr. Shashi Tharoor, announced the launch of a new Indian National Repository for Open Educational Resources. From the speech: I am delighted to…
Continue readingThe Open Data Institute, co-founded by OCW advisor Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt, has released a new schema for adding machine readable rights statements to open data, facilitating…
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