pybossa - PyBossa is an open source platform for crowd-sourcing online (volunteer) assistance to perform tasks that require human cognition, knowledge or intelligence (e.g. image classification, transcription, information location etc).
Universities have failed to recognize the pent-up demand for learning as the economy has diversified and society has become more complex and interconnected. As a consequence, the internet has contributed by creating a shadow education system where learners learn on their own and through social networks. MOOCs reflect society’s transition to a knowledge economy and reveal the inadequacy of existing university models to meet learner’s needs.
Mit der Plattform handbuch.io, die auf der Software MediaWiki basiert, wollen wir demonstrieren, dass wissenschaftliche Literatur heute vollständig im Web geschrieben, gelesen und verbessert werden kann. Geeignet ist die Plattform für 'traditionelle' Buchprojekte, aber auch für Buchprojekte, die als 'Living Book' konzipiert sind, d. h. dass die Autoren ihre Beiträge jederzeit aktualisieren und so neueste Entwicklungen in ihrer Disziplin berücksichtigen können.
The focus is however mostly on the high profile xMOOC interpretations of Coursera, edX etc rather than on the more undercover collaborative MOOCs offered by networks of teachers.
Wer wissen will, wie weit die nächste Kita entfernt ist oder wo Baustellen den Weg versperren, muss sich oft durch unübersichtliche Webseiten kämpfen. Das Projekt "Code for Germany" will das
Mloss is a community effort at producing reproducible research via open source software, open access to data and results, and open standards for interchange.
Search free, full text clinical content: articles, images, lectures, news, guidelines, medical literature, reports, and free full text works archived by Medline. Also, a 'hot topic' keyword links to international clinical lectures delivered in Powerpoint
Sample article titles: Confronting Death: Understanding how and why people approach death differently. The renewed search for natural products with cancer-fighting capabilities. Is It Time to Change the Design of Clinical Trials?
the term refers to any program with a licensing agreement that allows you to view and modify the source code, which is a series of high-level, human-readable instructions that defines a particular program and tells the computer what to do. Under an open-source license, if you choose to distribute your modifications of someone else’s software, you have to do so under the same terms.
OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Each OpenDOAR repository has been visited by project staff to check the information that is recorded here. This in-depth approach does not rely on automated analysis and gives a quality-controlled list of repositories.
"Under the terms of the agreement, articles
by UC-affiliated authors accepted for
publication in a Springer journal beginning in 2009 will be published
using Springer Open Choice with full and immediate open access. There
will be no separate per-article charges, since costs have been factored
into the overall license
‡biblios.net is a web-based original and copy cataloging tool with built in federated search of any Z39.50 target (via an integrated search registry with over 2000 targets - or by adding your own) and a large (30 million strong) shared database of catalog records. This means that you can visit ‡biblios.net and benefit from the work of other catalogers who have gone before you. You can also edit and contribute to the database without any restrictions.
openCU
Is the attempt to combine large scalable realtime conferencing and multicast streaming
with zeroconfiguration ad-hoc routing to provide a new user experience for collaboration ,
application sharing ,entertainment , and knowledge exchange.
CC0 enables scientists, educators, artists and other creators and owners of copyright-protected content to waive copyright interests in their works and thereby place them as completely as possible in the public domain, so that others may freely build upon, enhance and reuse the works for any purposes without restriction under copyright.
In contrast to CC’s licenses that allow copyright holders to choose from a range of permissions while retaining their copyright, CC0 empowers yet another choice altogether – the choice to opt out of copyright and the exclusive rights it automatically grants to creators – the “no rights reserved” alternative to our licenses.
The Robot-based Imaging Test-bed (RIT) is an open source toolkit designed to be used with a network of wireless robots with imaging cameras. The toolkit will provide the infrastructure for wireless networking, overhead camera localization, path planning,
Examples of Affordable, Free and Open Textbooks
This page contains a vetted list of affordable, online educational resources that might be used in place of an expensive, commercial textbook. The focus of this list is usability; each resource was recommended by at least one professor who has assigned it.
A consortium facilitates Open Access publishing in High Energy Physics by re-directing subscription money. This answers the request of the High Energy Physics community.
Today: (funding bodies through) libraries buy journal subscriptions to support the peer-review service and allow their patrons to read articles.
Tomorrow: funding bodies and libraries contribute to the consortium, which pays centrally for the peer-review service. Articles are free to read for everyone.