Ok, I know I’m 2 days late on blogging this announcement. The Learning Resources Metadata Initiative was announced Tuesday. I’m looking forward to reading through the metadata specs when they are done. (Metadata specs are a wonderful, natural sleep aid.) From https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/27603 Today Creative Commons and the Association of Educational…
YouTube + Creative Commons = Awesome!
Google’s YouTube started supporting for the CC-BY Creative Commons open license yesterday. Awesome news, and just in time for our Open Course Library phase 1 videos, which we will be captioning and moving to YouTube very soon. Here’s the announcement from the Creative Commons blog: YouTube has added the Creative…
Open Education Policy in Washington State
Last week I gave a presentation on Open Education policy in Washington State at the OpenCourseWare Consortium Global 2011 meetings in Cambridge. It’s great to see both the Hewlett and Gates Foundations focusing on community college Open Education efforts. I am fortunate to work in a system that has well-defined…
My 140th Blog Post: Tweets on Open Education
In honor of my 140th blog post on https://tomcaswell.com, I am posting a few tweets I just submitted to the College Open Textbook Community in response to their call. (The call is still open if you are interested in submitting tweets for their book.) This is my first time blogging…