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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Education in the Digital Age - Joel Thierstein, EDUCAUSE Review
Connexions (http://cnx.org/) is an open-source platform and open-access repository for open educational resources, enabling the creation, sharing, modification, and vetting of open educational material accessible to anyone, anywhere, anytime via the World Wide Web. Since 1999, Connexions has pioneered digital education. Connexions' global knowledge ecosystem, where anyone can create materials, is free of charge. Connexions' modular interactive information is in use by colleges and universities, community colleges, primary and secondary schools, and lifelong learners worldwide. Connexions' materials are available in many languages, including English, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, Vietnamese, Italian, French, Portuguese, and Thai. Through a partnership with innovative publisher QOOP, Connexions is part of an exciting new distribution system that allows for print-on-demand and accelerates the delivery of educational materials into classrooms worldwide.
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Just as we choose text books for our classes in higher education from among many publishers, so we will choose our books from open source providers. At most universities, we are free to choose required and recommended texts from any source. This adds not only another source, but an opportunity to share our expertise with others. It's a worth to look at the texts in your discipline area: http://cnx.org/ .
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