Last week, I attended the 18th TCC online conference – thanks to the organizers for the free pass! My conference report is published at ETC Journal.  

SPARC – The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition – is asking for public comment on a document defining different degrees of openness. The call for comments ends October 8. http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/HowOpenIsIt.shtml  

From the introduction: “Social media complicate the very nature of public life. In this article, we consider how technology reconfigures publicness, blurs ‘audiences’ and publics, and alters what it means to engage in public life. The nature of publicness online … Read more

Today I received an invitation to serve as a reviewer for the International Journal of Inclusive Education. Published by Taylor and Francis, the journal “provides a strategic forum for international and multi-disciplinary dialogue on inclusive education for all educators and … Read more

The annual Teaching and Learning Conference at Elon is a regional event that attracts professors, instructional designers, postdocs and other academic personnel from North Carolina colleges and universities  The 9th edition of this free, one-day conference took place on August … Read more

A beta plugin that allows to publish directly from Adobe Indesign to Kindle has been released in July 2012. “Kindle Plugin for Adobe InDesign® converts the InDesign source content to a single file which supports both KF8 and Mobi formats … Read more

Distance Education is a peer-reviewed journal of the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia, Inc. It publishes research and scholarly material in the fields of open, distance and flexible education. The current special issue comprises 12 articles by leading … Read more

The 2nd draft of the new creative commons license (version 4.0) was released on August 1st and is open for public comment. From the creative commons Web site: “Since CC’s launch in 2002, it has versioned its core license suite … Read more

This Web site is a nice example on how to mold different open educational resources into one coherent collection that presents the learner with a concise, coherent and well structured curriculum. Many OER repositories and collections aim for a comprehensive … Read more

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