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San Diego Educators speak about March For California's Future

Submitted by New Media Rights on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 12:47

Educators Lacey Dorman, Jim Miller and Kelly Mayhew, their son Walt and students speak about why the continued budget cuts on the California University system is so destructive. This video was made in the NMR Studio that is free to use by the public.

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Sign our petition to support the Open College Textbook Act of 2009

Submitted by New Media Rights on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 14:45

Please sign this letter to your Congressmen encouraging Congress to support openly licensed textbooks by voting for the Open College Textbooks Act of 2009. You can learn more about the Open College Textbooks Act right here on New Media Rights!

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Open College Textbook Act (S. 1714) promises seed money for the open education cause

Submitted by Meghan Bohn on Fri, 10/02/2009 - 17:29

The Open College Textbook Act proposes "to authorize grants for the creation, update, or adaption of open textbooks."

Specifically, it would authorize the Secretary of Education to award 1-year grants on a competitive basis to higher education institutions, professors, non-profit, or for profit-organizations that produce textbooks. The textbooks would be open licensed and available to be downloaded, redistributed, changed, revised, or altered by any member of the public.

Learn more here and then please sign our petition supporting the Open College Textbook Act.

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San Diego Filmmaker Martin Johnson creates two Creative Commons documentaries on education and parenting

Submitted by New Media Rights on Wed, 08/19/2009 - 15:49

San Diego filmmaker Martin Johnson has produced two short form documentaries featuring local teachers discussing

  • the importance of parent involvement, and
  • how creating a math honor society encouraged inner city students to achieve

Both documentaries are licensed under Creative Commons licenses and were made using New Media Rights Free Public Studio equipment.

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Australia Publishes CC Info Pack

Through its Copyright Advisory Group, the Australian Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA) has published a Creative Commons information pack online, a bundle of eight documents that distills the basics of CC licensing and the philosophy behind it. This pack is a great resource for educators and students, and we encourage you to use it in your schools by adapting it however you like.

The info pack includes concise and concrete answers to simple questions, like:

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Congress Bows to Big Content, Scapegoats Higher Ed

Last week, after months of intensive wrangling, the House and the Senate finally agreed on a final version of the Higher Education Act (HEA). Buried in this massive bill, which touches on virtually every aspect of education, is a little provision requiring campuses to develop “plans to effectively combat the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material, including through the use of a variety of technology-based deterrents.” Those deterrent include bandwidth shaping and traffic monitoring, but also use of filtering technologies such as Audible Magic.

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TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design): ideas worth spreading

Submitted by New Media Rights on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 23:01

TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design): ideas worth spreading. This organization holds a conference each year dedicated to innovative thinkers and ideas. Its website has interesting talks from these conferences and is worth a look.

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MIT Open Courseware: take MIT complete courses for free!

Submitted by New Media Rights on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 00:14

MIT's Open Courseware website offers over 1800 complete MIT courses for free to the public. Most courses have lecture notes, exams, etc., and there are a number that have a substantial amount of audio, video, and multimedia content as well.

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OpenEducation.net

Submitted by New Media Rights on Tue, 02/26/2008 - 23:53

Openeducation.net has blogs, podcasts, and other information regarding the free and open source availability of education on the web.

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