School of Open

School of Open launching this week!!



Courses that will launch March 12, 2013

• A Look at Open Video - Overview of open video for students interested in developing software, video journalists, editors and all users of video who want to take their knowledge further.
• Open data for GLAMs - This challenge is for GLAM-professionals who are interested in opening up their data as free culture data.
• Contributing to Wikimedia Commons - This challenge gets you acquainted with uploading your works to the commons - a repository of openly licensed images from all over the world.
• dScribe: Peer-produced Open Educational Resources - Learn the ins and outs of building OER together with your peers.
• Open Science: An Introduction - A course for both seasoned and new researchers who want to learn what makes science "open", how they can find/use/build on open scientific works, and share their contributions back to the commons.
• Copyright 4 Educators (Aus) - A course for educators in Australia who want to learn about copyright, open content material and licensing.
• Copyright 4 Educators (US) - A course for educators in the US who want to learn about copyright law.
• Creative Commons for K-12 Educators - A course for elementary educators who want to find and adapt free resources for their classes, and incorporate activities that teach their students digital world skills.
• Open Detective - This course will explore the scale of open to non-open content and how to tell the difference.
• Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics and Beyond - A course on how to edit Wikipedia articles, focusing on articles covering the open educational resources (OER) movement.
• Get a CC license. Put it on your website - A short challenge on applying the CC license of your choice to your website so that it aligns with marking and metadata best pracdtices.
• Open habits: making with the DS106 Daily Create - An hourlong challenge about building openness into your daily routine so that you're thinking about new ways to share and participate in the culture of openness.
• Intro to Openness in Education - This is an introductory course exploring the history and impacts of openness in education.

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Open Access Scholarly Press

AU Press is "dedicated to open access and digital publishing in order to serve the needs of a global community of adult learners and researchers" and to this end provides freely available eBooks, eJournals and websites.

You can browse for eBooks by author, title, series or subject as well as searching by keyword. Over 20 different categories are included ranging from Anthropology to Women's Studies.

The technology section has two very interesting publications

• Emerging Technologies in Distance Education (pdf) and
• Mobile Learning: Transforming the Delivery of Education and Training (pdf)

A range of open access electronic journals in various disciplines in the social sciences and humanities are also provided.

Interestingly, AU Press indicate that "much evidence demonstrates that in practice, academic presses sell more books by making their content freely available on the web". It would be great to see more adopting this approach!

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