Author: karen

I’m starting a new project to collaboratively produce a simple kids dictionary. If anyone has seen anything similar or has experience with any public domain dictionaries or other info that might be useful (or if you’re interested in participating in

There are a lot of discussions going on in the OER community about what should be considered “open.” This starts with licensing issues with many considering the no derivatives or non-commercial licenses being too restrictive. In addition, there are format

The questions for this week: Understanding the importance and value of the public domain, how much (what percentage) of this value would you estimate is realized when works are licensed with a Creative Commons or GFDL license? To what degree

Of obvious importance in developing educational materials is the readability level. Unfortunately, not enough attention is paid to this measure. In fact, it is possible to write materials at a relatively low readability level and still convey advanced content. Doing

This week’s assignment: QUESTIONS: What do these representative open education projects have in common? What differentiates them? In the context of open education projects, what does “quality” mean? These projects have more that differentiates them then they have in common,