Blog Title: Open Up!

COSL Hosts OER Interoperability Sprint

This week COSL is hosting a OER Interoperability sprint at its offices in North Logan, UT. This sprint is a follow on to the OER Interoperability meeting held at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in Menlo Park, CA on December 10-11, 2007. This sprint is being attended by people from Connexions, ccLearn, MIT Office read more..

eduCommons 3.0.2 released!

COSL and enPraxis are pleased to announce the release of eduCommons 3.0.2. This release provides migration support for eduCommons 2.3.1 users, as well as minor bug fixes for eduCommons 3.0.0-final. Migration allows previous eduCommons adopters to take advantage of numerous new features that come with Pone 3, including inline editing, versioning, link checking, presentation read more..

eduCommons 2.3.1 released!

The eduCommons team is pleased to announce that eduCommons 2.3.1 has been released. This release included complete refactors of migration for eduCommons, as well as proper migrations and uninstall functionality for alldependent products. Internationalization has also taken a big step forward with this release. Numerous i18n (internationalization) bugs were eradicated, opening many doors to non-English OCW read more..

New eduCommons Documentation and Screencasts Now Available

Seth Gurell, a graduate student at Utah State University, has created a collection of screencasts on how to use eduCommons. They short segments include explanations such as uploading a zip file, adding an image, and understanding workflow roles. These screencasts are available as part of the new eduCommons documentation section.

eduCommons 2.3.0 is released

The eduCommons teams is pleased to announce the release of eduCommons 2.3.0. Features of interest include integration of MOCSL tools (Annorate, Make a Path, Send 2 Wiki), support for MIT Content Package imports, improved RSS support for Departments and Courses, Course download for anonymous viewers, and mass copyright clearance and licensing change. For a list of included changes, please read read more..

Open Education 2007 Conference: Call for Papers

Open Education 2007: Localizing and Learning Center for Open and Sustainable Learning at Utah State University Conference dates are September 26-28, 2007 Submission deadline is May 18, 2007 Conference Themes For the first several years our field focused on content production and content licensing. Today, there are thousands of full university courses and tens of thousands of learning modules available read more..

Interview with Bobbi Kursham of Curriki

An interesting conversation was published today about Curriki, an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them. Bobbi Kursham is Executive director of Curriki, formerly the Global Education & Learning community (GELC) on Java.net and President of Educorp Consultants Corp. I also recommend her read more..

Microlibraries Project: 20,000+ books available on demand

The Center for Open and Sustainable Learning (COSL) has organized the Microlibraries Project, making over 20,000 Project Gutenberg books available at minimal cost through a simple print-on-demand system. The books are stored in a compact format and converted to a print-ready format (PDF) when they are accessed. All 20,000 public domain books fit on one read more..

A Closer Look at Ozmozr

Ozmozr (a microformat-aware aggregator/resource sharing/social site) has been getting a fair amount of press since it’s alpha release last week, but some people seem unclear about how the site can be used. This article is an attempt to go to the source (the creators) and pull together some details about what Ozmozr is all read more..

eduCommons 2.2.0 Released!

The eduCommons engineering team is pleased to announce the release of eduCommons-2.2.0-final. It is now available from our website: http://cosl.usu.edu/projects/educommons/releases/2.2.0 Here is a list of what is new in this release: Many front end UI Enhancements Auto-citation generation (from metadata) displayed inline with documents and included in skinless content. Simplify conformance with Attribution terms of Creative Commons licenses read more..