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Last year on Christmas while we were visiting family at my Aunt's house, Keegan was having a chat with my Cousin. She was standing up across from him while he was sitting on the floor next to my Uncle who was in a recliner.
She asked Keegan "Do you know who that man is right there?"
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By Alex MacDonald
LONDON--Guinea is forecasting a 30% drop in domestic mining investment this year as miners pare back their capital expenditure globally and China, the world's largest consumer of many commodities, grows at a slower pace, said the West African nation's Finance Minister Wednesday.
"A slowdown in mining investment...may have an impact on [Guinea's] whole mining activities but also all contract activities and as result it may have an impact on the fiscal revenue of the government, Kerfalla Yansane told an audience at Guinea's mining code briefing in London.
He said mining companies were supposed to invest $1.5 billion in Guinea this year but "30% may be lost due to this downturn of mining activities and also the world economy."
Mr. Yansane said China's economic growth rate had dropped to 7.5% from much higher levels in years past: "you can imagine the impact on the whole economy [this would have] and on smaller, open economies like Guinea," he added.
Large diversified miners such as BHP Billiton Ltd., Rio Tinto PLC, and Brazilian miner Vale SA are cutting back their capital expenditure plans amid falling commodities prices. They have been facing greater pressure to return excess cash to shareholders rather than invest in new projects that may fail to provide an attractive return on investment given the recent drop in commodity prices. Meanwhile junior miners have been struggling to secure financing as well.
Guinea's $5 billion economy relies heavily on the mining sector to drive foreign investment into the country and economic growth. The mining sector accounts for 20% of Guinea's gross domestic product and represents 30% of export revenues and 80% of the country's foreign currency inflow, according to a Guinean government presentation.
Mr. Yansane said the domestic economy is likely to grow at 10% to 15% annually in five to ten year's time when major mining projects come to fruition. There is about six mining projects in the pipeline that would require about $28.7 billion in investment that have yet to be developed.
Such a pick up in growth from mining projects would help lift Guinea's population of 10.8 million--half of which are below the poverty line--more quickly, Mr Yansane said. Until now, the country's economic growth, particularly in the mining sector, has been hampered by corruption and the lack of strong and clear policies that can be enforced by the government, he noted.
"The legacy of poor governance and corruption over the past 50 years have prevented Guinea from unlocking its huge potential," he said. Deals in the past "were not transparent at all and since there were no clear procedures...this paved the way for all kind of interference from political groups" and pressure groups, he said.
In an effort to attract more investment and create greater transparency, the Guinean government has taken steps to bring its mining code up to par with international best practices. It amended its 2011 mining code this year by lowering corporation tax to 20% from 25% and reducing royalties on bauxite among other things, said the country's minister of mines Mohamed Lamine Fofana at the briefing.
Guinea has also audited all concessions and mining titles and made them public to bolster transparency and accountability within the private and public sectors. It has also committed itself to disclosing all conventions that the government signs, said the country's minister of mines.
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INDIAN RIVER COUNTY -- On March 31, 2012, Sun Up Center and Abilities Resource Center merged to become SunUp ARC. For the first time in the history of Indian River County, two nonprofit organizations with similar missions merged into one enhanced agency.
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"The past year has definitely been an exciting one. Since the merger we have grown from 120 individuals to 180," said Chuck Bradley, executive director. "We have been able to expand and improve existing programs and create new ones. Thanks to a grant from the John's Island Foundation, last fall we were able to start a Youth Outreach Program for individuals age 15 to 22. Last summer the City of Vero Beach, the City of Sebastian and the Indian River County Commissioners all passed proclamations that the month of July be proclaimed Non-Profit Organizations Unite Month, in honor of The Sun Up Center and ARC merging to become SunUp ARC. We are very proud of what we have accomplished this past year."
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Flims-Laax-Falera, Switzerland
Flims and its neighbouring villages of Laax and Falera, form the 'White Arena', the largest, interlinked ski area in the canton of Graubunden.
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The area is made up of the villages of Flims, Laax and Falera and there is a direct link to the ski area from each of these locations. It has 220 kilometres of pistes, four snowparks, Europe's largest halfpipe and first indoor freestyle hall as well as a wide range of restaurants on the mountain and in the valley, which can satisfy every need.
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Laax is known for the Freestyle academy which is an indoor playground featuring a trampoline, indoor kickers, a bowl. a mini ramp and a street course stand. It was the first of it's kind to open in Europe and enables you to learn freestyle tricks in a safe environment as you land into a pit filled with foam bricks. See Doingmore for more details and photos.
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We feature a 4 star hotel (Signina) and some contemporary apartments (Rocksresort) in Laax.The Laax base station provides you with everything you'll need for a carefree stay in our resort. Rent modern sporting equipment, discover the latest trends in the different shops or enjoy the various bars and restaurants.
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Flims: The village has good facilities, countless shopping opportunities and a wide-range of places to eat.
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South Carolina health insurance exchange
87% of enrollees in SC subsidized; 28k enroll in Medicaid
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- July 24, 2014
Enrollment – triggered by qualifying events – has continued to grow in the South Carolina exchange since April, but an updated report from HHS won't be out until November, when the 2015 open enrollment is scheduled to begin. HHS released a report in June detailing average after-subsidy premiums in the federally facilitate marketplaces, and South Carolina is very much in line with the national averages: 87% of enrollees in the SC exchange received a subsidy, the same as the overall percentage across the 36 HHS-run exchanges. And the average after-subsidy premium in SC is $84, just two dollars higher than the average across all 36 states.
By April 19, 118,324 South Carolina residents had completed their private plan Obamacare enrollments in the exchange, including those who enrolled after March 31 because of a qualifying event, or through the extension that HHS granted to people who started their applications by the end of March. This total is more than double the enrollment total as of March 1. In addition, 28,359 exchange applicants had enrolled in Medicaid, qualifying under the state's existing guidelines (South Carolina has not expanded Medicaid under the ACA).
South Carolina is among the 18 states where the "employee choice" feature of the SHOP exchange has been delayed another year – from 2015 until 2016. This benefit will eventually allow employees to select from among a broad range of plans selected by the employer, but until 2016, there will be only one plan available for employees to select.
US Rep. James Clyburn (D – SC) views the ACA as the "Civil Rights Act of the 21st century" and is calling on South Carolina to embrace the law (including Medicaid expansion, which SC lawmakers have thus far resisted) and all that it can offer to the state and its residents. In his article, Rep. Clyburn notes that SC ranks 43rd in the US in terms of overall health, and points out the myriad ways that the ACA can help to improve residents' health.
But despite the fact that nearly 20% of the population in South Carolina is uninsured, the state made headlines in 2014 thanks to anti-ACA legislation. They started with a bill that would have effectively prohibited the implementation of the the ACA in the state. The curiously-named South Carolina Freedom of Health Care Protection Act (H3101) would have blocked state employees from participating in the exchange and would have reimbursed residents facing an IRS penalty for not complying with the ACA's individual mandate. The bill passed the SC House last spring, and Governor Nikki Haley supports the legislation. However, it failed a second reading in the Senate on March 19. Republican lawmakers in SC aren't giving up on their efforts to nullify the ACA though – Senate Republican Tom Davis introduced an amendment to the bill in early March in an effort to continue to fight against the law in a state that desperately needs the ACA. But in early May, the SC Senate voted 23 – 19 to table the amendment. Davis believes that Senate Republicans (with a majority) "didn't deliver", but uninsured and underinsured South Carolina residents probably see things a little differently.
South Carolina was quick to accept President Obama's policy cancellation compromise that allows carriers to extend existing plans that had been scheduled to terminate at the end of the year. Carriers have the option of whether or not to move forward with renewing the policies, and by December 3 two SC Blues carriers had opted to do so. This gave many people in the existing individual market another alternative to compare with the options available in the exchange.
Given Gov. Haley's outspoken opposition to the Affordable Care Act, it is no surprise that the federal government is running the health insurance marketplace in South Carolina. Haley announced her decision in November 2012.
Four companies are offering health insurance through the federally-run marketplace in South Carolina:Blue Choice Health Plan, Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina, Consumers' Choice Health Plan and Coventry Health Care of the Carolinas. In total, 52 options, with varying premiums and deductibles are available for individuals and families. A preliminary report released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) found premiums in South Carolina to be higher than the national average. In South Carolina, the average cost for the least-expensive bronze plan is $267 a month before tax credits or subsidies. The national average for the lowest cost bronze plans is $249 a month. The federal mareketplace website, www.healthcare.gov, shows all of the options available, although it has struggled during its first month of operation to work out glitches and create a smooth enrollment process.
Rates for 2015 don't have to be filed in South Carolina until September, so consumers won't know how much premiums will increase until the fall. Across the country, 2015 rates that have been filed so far have followed a general pattern of increases (although there have been some decreases), but the increases have not been as sharp as they've been in past years. The South Carolina Department of Insurance expects all four carriers to remain in the exchange in 2015, but there is no word yet on rate changes for next year.
Three federally funded groups launched training programs and outreach campaigns in 2013 to help consumers understand their options. DECO Recovery Management, Cooperative Ministry, and the Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce all received grants to hire "navigators." Navigators provide unbiased information about the options available through the marketplace and help consumers through the enrollment process, but cannot be directly or indirectly paid by insurance companies.
South Carolina was among the states that received the least amount of federal funding in the initial planning grants – the state got $1 million. This is a thousand times less than the $1 billion that California received (and several other states got hundreds of millions), but is predicated on the state's refusal to promote the ACA – the money wouldn't have been utilized by the South Carolina government.
According to the HHS, more than 750,000 – about 19.4% of the population – South Carolina residents are uninsured and eligible to use the new marketplace. This is higher than the national average rate of uninsureds (17.3%) and makes South Carolina one of the states most in need of healthcare reform, exchange subsidies and Medicaid expansion. Unfortunately, South Carolina is not expanding Medicaid, which leaves many low-income residents in a "coverage gap" where they earn too little money to qualify for exchange subsidies, but do not qualify for Medicaid based on existing eligibility rules.
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State Exchange Profile: South Carolina
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation overview of South Carolina's progress toward creating a state health insurance exchange.
South Carolina Consumer Assistance Program
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With the financial industry in a well-documented state of turmoil, the need for a constant stream of real-time information has caused several financial information companies to take their offerings mobile. Financial media provider Stockhouse today announced Stockstream Mobile and Mobile Pro. The full-featured applications, in partnership with Reuters, stream news, quotes and data to investors and traders Blackberry devices.
The subscription application is designed to provide individual investors or traders with live data, symbol-specific and general news and alerts from Reuters. The service can be customized on a particular companys graphs, streaming watch lists, historical charts and alerts, and new items can be copied and instantly sent via email to share or save.
The product is designed for a financial trader making between one and 40 trades per month, said Bruce Nun, vice president of marketing at Stockhouse. Weve really optimized the device and the navigation on the device; the interface and the charting is the absolutely the best. This applications graphics for charting and the overlays available are the best in this category of software.
Blending the idea of social networking with information access, the site also brings the investor community together to share blogs, create a network and identify investment opportunities. Nun said the major differentiator of the service is a rating and ranking tool, which lets users rate others public portfolio picks and stocks to gauge its quality, clarity and relevance. The aggregate rating becomes a reputation score to back up the credibility of the person posting.
The product today mirrors Stockhouses online presence, but the two are not yet tied together. Stockstream Mobile begins at $19.95 for the basic service and works on any Blackberry version 4.0 or higher. Nun said that Windows Mobile devices and the iPhone are also on the roadmap. Mobile Pro includes additional commodities, treasuries, foreign exchange data, as well as faster data delivery. The service is targeted at individual consumers, but can also be white labeled for financial institutions.
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A new course on Open Research at the School of Open
The following is a guest post by Beck Pitt, researcher at the Open University's OER Research Hub. We are collaborating with Beck and her team to investigate attitudes towards sharing educational resources online and the impact of School of Open courses.
Are you curious about what it means to research openly and what benefits it could have? Interested in how you can be open and ethical when conducting research? Wondering how openness could help raise the profile of your research? Thinking about the benefits of sharing reflections on your research?
The award-winning, Hewlett Foundation-funded OER Research Hub based at The Open University (UK) is pleased to announce its very own School of Open course in collaboration with the Peer 2 Peer University and Creative Commons. It opens for sign-up today at https://p2pu.org/en/courses/2377/open-research/.
Over six months in the making and peer-reviewed by the community, this new School of Open course offers the opportunity to explore the concept and practices of open research with participants from around the world. The course has been designed for any researcher who has an interest in utilizing open techniques and practices in their own research.
Join researchers Bea de los Arcos, Rob Farrow, Beck Pitt, and project manager Natalie Eggleston for this four-week course that explores what open research is and the issues involved around it, including: ethics, dissemination, reflection, and evaluation. The course starts Monday, 15 September 2014 and features its very own "Open Research" badge for course completion and participation.
To sign up, simply click the "Start Course" button on the lower left of the course page once you have signed into or registered for a p2pu.org account. Sign-up will remain open through Friday, 12 September.
About the OER Research Hub
The OER Research Hub is an international open research project examining the impact of open educational resources (OER) on learning and teaching practices. It works collaboratively with initiatives, projects and organisations around the world, disseminating its research and curating evidence for the impact of OER on its Impact Map.
About the School of Open
The School of Open is a global community of volunteers focused on providing free education opportunities on the meaning, application, and impact of "openness" in the digital age and its benefit to creative endeavors, education, and research. Volunteers develop and run online courses, offline workshops, and real world training programs on topics such as Creative Commons licenses, open educational resources, and sharing creative works. The School of Open is coordinated by Creative Commons and P2PU, a peer learning community for developing and running free online courses.Comments Off
"Why Open?" course now open for sign-up
Project 365 #303: 301009 Blink And You'll Miss It! / Pete / CC BY
Another run of School of Open courses is starting up in August, September and October! The first course to kick things off is a second iteration of "Why Open?" "Why Open?" was collaboratively developed and facilitated one year ago in August 2013; now the facilitators are back to run it a second time from 10 August to 5 September 2014. What is "Why Open?" From its About page,
Why Open? What does open mean? Does it mean free? Does it mean without restriction? What is the role of the producer? What is the role of the consumer? Why is open important? How does open relate to you and your area of expertise?
In this course, we will discuss and answer these questions. With your help, we will explore the different meanings of open in various contexts as well as its benefits and issues. Participants will use open practices to complete a series of open activities that builds into a final project.
Facilitators include Christina Hendricks (Philosophy lecturer at the University of British Columbia), Simeon Oriko (School of Open Kenya Initiative), Jeanette Lee (English lit and writing teacher), and myself.
Read more about the course over at the School of Open blog.
Sign-up is open now through 10 August; to join, simply click the 'Start Course' button on the lower left of the course page.Comments Off
WikiProject Open Barn Raising this Saturday
WikiProject Open is an online School of Open training program for new and seasoned Wikipedia volunteers to collaborate on improving Wikipedia articles related to openness. The aim of the project is two-fold: in addition to improving Wikipedia articles related to openness (such as open access publishing and open educational resources), volunteers seek to improve Wikimedia content generally with the aid of openly licensed materials.
Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-54440-0001 / CC BY-SA
This Saturday, WikiProject Open's Pete Forsyth and Sara Frank Bristow invite you to join their Barn Raising event from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, at the Oakland Impact Hub on 2323 Broadway, Oakland, California. Lunch and refreshments will be provided. You can also join the event online. Sara says:
"At the Barn Raising, we will focus on high priority Wikipedia articles: articles that are widely read, but that — despite ongoing efforts — remain poorly sourced, incomplete, or out of date. (In the wiki world, we often borrow the term "Barn Raising" to evoke the idea of a community coming together to build something substantial in a short time. It's been described as a way to "make the impossible possible.")
This event is open to all! Our goal is to make significant improvements to OER related articles; so those who are brand new to Wikipedia and/or open education might want to take a little time to prepare. We will send out helpful resources for beginners as the date gets closer."
Register here.
Visit the wiki page here.
And read more about School of Open training programs here!
About the School of Open
The School of Open is a global community of volunteers focused on providing free education opportunities on the meaning, application, and impact of "openness" in the digital age and its benefit to creative endeavors, education, and research. Volunteers develop and run online courses, offline workshops, and real world training programs on topics such as Creative Commons licenses, open educational resources, and sharing creative works. The School of Open is coordinated by Creative Commons and P2PU, a peer learning community for developing and running free online courses.Comments Off
School of Open: Copyright & Creative Commons for Educators Courses Now Open for Sign-up
Is copyright a little fuzzy? / Elias Bizannes / CC BY-SA
Following on the heels of "Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics and Beyond," three more School of Open courses are now open for sign-up. They are:
1. Copyright 4 Educators (AUS)
This course will equip Australian educators with the copyright knowledge to confidently use copyright material in the classroom. It will also introduce Open Educational Resources (OER) and teach you how to find and adapt free, useful resources for your classes. The course is open to all educators around the world, but it is specifically targeted to Australian teachers, teacher-librarians from K-12, TAFE teachers, University lecturers/tutors, and University students studying to become teachers. The course material is learnt around practical case studies faced by teachers when using copyright material in their day-to-day teaching and educational instruction.
Facilitators: Jessica Smith and Delia Browne
To sign up, click the "Start course" button on the bottom left of the course page.
2. Copyright 4 Educators (US)
This is a course for educators who want to learn about US copyright law in the education context. Educators who are not in the US are welcome to sign up, too, if they want to learn about copyright law in the US. The course is taught around practical case studies faced by teachers when using copyright material in their day-to-day teaching. By answering the case scenarios and drafting and discussing the answers in groups, you and other participants will learn:
- What is the public domain?
- What does copyright law protect?
- What is fair use?
- What other exceptions are there in copyright law?
- What are open access educational resources?
Facilitators: Laura Quilter and Lila Bailey
To sign up, apply using the Google form — also linked at the top of the course page.
3. Creative Commons for K-12 Educators
K-12 educators would like to find and adapt free, useful resources for their classes. Some would even like to incorporate activities that teach their students digital world skills — such as finding, remixing, and sharing digital media and materials on the web. In this lightly facilitated course, we will learn how to do these things with each other in a peer learning environment.
Facilitator: Jane Park
To sign up, click the "Start course" button on the bottom left of the course page.
About the School of Open
The School of Open is a global community of volunteers focused on providing free education opportunities on the meaning, application, and impact of "openness" in the digital age and its benefit to creative endeavors, education, research, and more. Volunteers develop and run online courses, offline workshops, and real world training programs on topics such as Creative Commons licenses, open educational resources, and sharing creative works. The School of Open is coordinated by Creative Commons and P2PU, a peer learning community and platform for developing and running free online courses.2 Comments »
School of Open: "Writing Wikipedia Articles" Course Now Open for Registration
Below, Sara Frank Bristow invites you to join "Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics & Beyond". Sara is a co-organizer of the course and a member of WikiProject Open. Both projects are part of the School of Open.
The School of Open will offer its popular "Writing Wikipedia Articles" course (WIKISOO) starting 25 February, 2014. This free introductory online course, now in its fourth incarnation, runs for six weeks. Enrollment is open to all.
WIKISOO students learn about the values and culture that have driven hundreds of thousands of volunteers to build Wikipedia. Through their work in the course, they join an effort that has generated millions of free articles in hundreds of languages since 2001.The course covers the technical skills needed to edit articles, and also offers practical insights into the site's collaborative norms and social dynamics. Students graduate with a sophisticated understanding of how to use Wikipedia both as a reader and as an active participant.
The course focuses on articles about openness in education: open educational resources (OER), MOOCs, Creative Commons licenses and more. Students will forge connections with WikiProject Open, a community of volunteers focused on this topic area. Upon successful completion, students earn the WIKISOO Burba Badge.
The course is sponsored by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the University of Mississippi. Course instructors are:
- Pete Forsyth, Wikipedia trainer & consultant (Wiki Strategies)
- Sara Frank Bristow, OER and online education researcher (Salient Research)
- Dr. Robert Cummings, Associate Professor (University of Mississippi)
Course registration is now open!
- More course information: http://enwp.org/WP:WIKISOO
- Enroll: http://enwp.org/WP:WIKISOO/NOW
School of Open: What we did in 2013
Here's another end of year list: all the awesome things the School of Open community accomplished in 2013. Last year, we highlighted the work we put into materializing School of Open as a concrete entity with goals and people involved. This year, we actually launched the School with a full set of online courses and kick-off events around the world!
But we didn't stop there. All year long, our volunteers have been contributing in so many fantastic and unexpected ways that it's been hard to wrap our brains around all the activity. So here's my attempt at collecting and distilling everything here, as a teaser for the new School of Open landing page that will happen in 2014.
The biggest thing you should note about the School of Open is that it is no longer just a set of online courses sitting on the P2PU platform. It is a global community and movement of volunteers developing and running online or hybrid courses, face-to-face workshops, and real world training programs — all with the purpose of helping people do what they already do better with the aid of open resources and tools.
In 2013, we
- Launched 12 stand-alone courses for anyone to take at any time, with or without others.
- Ran a total of 11 facilitated courses on topics such as: Copyright 4 Educators, Designing Collaborative Workshops, Open Science, CC licensing, Writing Wikipedia Articles, and Why Open?
- Conducted initial research on the impact of some of these courses and completed a research residency with the OER Research Hub in Milton Keynes, England
- Hosted multiple workshops, course sprints, and other events across 5 continents (in countries like England, Germany, Kenya, China, Sudan, Argentina, South Africa, the U.S.)
- Started School of Open Kenya, an after school program for high school students teaching about open educational resources, CC licenses, and the open culture that they engender
- Put on an engineering and design challenge incorporating open source and CC licensing education for university students in China
- Ran a two-week OER summer camp for kids on Luxi island, an island in rural China (more info to follow in a guest blog post [updated])
- Launched WikiProject Open, a community of new and experienced Wikipedians, dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of all things "open" and to using openly licensed content to improve Wikipedia articles in general
- Got the School of Open's Writing Wikipedia Articles course adopted as part of a formal university course (the University of Mississippi's "Open Educational Resources and Practices")
- Piloted P2PU badges for 7 of our facilitated courses! For examples, check out this Remix OER badge and this Intro to Open Science Open Access badge
- Built a human timeline of the open education space! Which we want anyone and everyone to contribute to
- Helped turn a "collaborations across the open space" session at Mozfest into a funded part-time position that will help coordinate our open communities! (more info at this pad)
- Developed support resources for course facilitators, including this comprehensive tip sheet by a facilitator with a 95% retention rate
- Created a couple videos for online conferences, like this one for K-12 educators and this one for Open Ed Week
- Showcased School of Open projects by CC affiliates at the Creative Commons Global Summit in Buenos Aires…
OER summer camp on Luxi island ( ZHU Renkai / CC BY)
…and more, all of which you can check out in detail on the CC blog at http://creativecommons.org/tag/school-of-open.
In 2014, we will
- Launch our third round of facilitated courses in March. Sign up to be notified when registration opens
- Revamp the School of Open landing page to better reflect our multi-layered activity
- Build out courses in different languages. So far volunteers have expressed interest in translating courses into Spanish, Romanian, Hindi, Swedish, Chinese, Korean, Dutch, French, Arabic, German, Portuguese, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew… yes, we've got our work cut out for us!
- Expand current training programs to other regions; for example, we hope to have similar programs to School of Open Kenya in place in Ghana, Nigeria, and Tanzania
- Start new courses and training programs in South Africa, Colombia, Uruguay, El Salvador, Argentina, and more!
- Collaborate with our fellow open organizations such as OKFN, Mozilla, Wikimedia, P2PU, and more!
- Do more research! And completing a report of our findings with the OER Research Hub
- Get more SOO courses adopted as part of formal university courses
- Secure professional development credit for teachers/librarians taking Copyright 4 Educators in Australia (and elsewhere)
- Collaborate with the California School Librarians Association (CSLA) to increase CC and OER education in K-12 schools!
- Run more workshops, especially one for SOO volunteers to get together and grow their respective projects
- Take more pictures. We didn't have enough this year!
Fireworks / Jack-Benny / CC BY-SA
And I could go on, but I'll stop there. On behalf of the School of Open community, we wish you a Happy Holidays and a wonderful New Year!
If you would like to join us in our endeavors to provide free education opportunities on all things open, introduce yourself at the School of Open Google Group, sign up for announcements, and check out a course (or two or three).
About the School of Open
The School of Open is a global community of volunteers focused on providing free education opportunities on the meaning, application, and impact of "openness" in the digital age and its benefit to creative endeavors, education, research, and more. Volunteers develop and run online courses, offline workshops, and real world training programs on topics such as Creative Commons licenses, open educational resources, and sharing creative works. The School of Open is coordinated by Creative Commons and P2PU, a peer learning community and platform for developing and running free online courses.2 Comments »
Guest post: What's behind the success of Copyright 4 Educators Australia?
The following is a guest post by Jessica Smith, National Copyright Officer for the National Copyright Unit of Australia. She ran the Copyright 4 Educators (AUS) course with Delia Browne as part of the School of Open's second round of facilitated courses in 2013.
The School of Open is a community of volunteers focused on providing free education opportunities on the meaning, application, and impact of "openness" in the digital age and its benefit to creative endeavors, education, research, and more. Volunteers develop and run online courses, offline workshops, and real world training programs on topics such as Creative Commons licenses, open educational resources, and sharing creative works.
The National Copyright Unit (NCU) of Australia ran its second cycle of the School of Open's Copyright 4 Educators (AUS) course in August. The course ran for seven weeks, with a two-week introduction period and five weeks of substantive group work. We took on 60 learners, with enrollments filling up in less than two days, plus a wait list of around 15 people. At the end of the course, we only had 3 drop-outs, a 95% retention rate!
On top of those stellar results, we also had very happy learners as well as great results in terms of the uptake and understanding of the information. We have an ongoing wait list for the course as well as teachers and librarians continuously enquiring about the course. We're also in the process of obtaining accreditation for the course through larger teacher organizations so that it can be used to fulfill specific professional learning requirements of Australian educators.
We believe our course has succeeded for three reasons:
- We made it easy for the students to participate.
- The course was associated with the NCU, an official government division.
- We assigned small groups based on commonalities, such as profession and field.
1. Make it easy for the students to participate
Making it easy for students is of utmost importance in an online environment, especially if the course is targeted to people who may not be familiar with online learning. We know this may sound obvious, but it's so important that it's definitely worth mentioning and expounding on. If you don't nail this, you're not going to retain your students.
So how do you make it easy for the students? Have everything (eg, communication tools and assignment submission entrypoints) set up for them and support them to the nth degree. What this means: you have to put the time in before the course starts and you, as the course facilitator/organizer, must be very comfortable with the course layout and tools in order to be able to give ample support as well as troubleshoot when issues arise.
Tutorials for Tools
For our course, we had heaps of information on our P2PU course site (outlining essentially everything they'd need to get through the course), but we also created tutorials and sent out additional information through email on all the essential parts of the course (ie. using the discussion tool Disqus, submitting group assignments, leaving peer review, etc). We really wanted the students to feel supported and to answer questions and issues BEFORE they arose. It's too easy to drop out of an online course, so we wanted to preemptively take care of as many issues as possible. We had one student state they were "very nervous and uncomfortable" to take an online course who later reported how great the course was set up and how easy it was in terms of knowing what to do and how to do it. It's key students feel like this from the start of the course, or they won't stick with it.
Tools we used
We used Google docs for our course. We had every group's Google doc set up for every single week, and we linked to the docs from both the course on P2PU as well as in emails that we sent out every week. The weekly emails make it very clear what was expected of our learners as well as where to go to complete their tasks. See an example below:
It's the last week already! You've all done a great job getting here. We've been very impressed with the calibre of all the groups' work in this cycle. In Week 7, you'll be using everything you've learnt throughout the course to help a peer.
This week you should:
*read the Week 7 Readings;
*collaborate with your group to complete Week 7's assignment;
*post (ie by copying and pasting) your final group answer to your group's google doc HERE by COB this Sunday, September 22nd;
*leave peer review for Week 7 by COB Tuesday following the assignment due date, September 24th;
*and remember you should also have your peer review for Week 3 finished by COB tomorrow Tuesday, September 17th.
Please note this assignment is only asking you to point to helpful resources – ie, you don't actually have to answer the question – you simply need to demonstrate that you're able to find, compile and share helpful copyright resources.
Peer Review
You will peer review the exact same groups every week. Just as a reminder see below:
* Group 1 will review Groups 2 and 3.
* Group 2 will review Groups 1 and 3.
* Group 3 will review Groups 1 and 2.
* [...]
Since you've all now completed Week 6's assignment, you can apply for the Copyright Exceptions badge HERE.
For more information on P2PU badges, see HERE.
As always, if you have any questions or concerns, just let us know!
Following up
We also sent out individual group chase-ups the Monday following a Sunday due date as well as a chase-up Wednesday following the peer review due date. See below for an example of this:
It doesn't look like you've done your peer review for Week 6. Remember this is a requirement of the course. Your group is responsible for leaving peer review for Groups 8 and 9. I can see your group has left feedback for 8 already, so only Group 9 to go!
Let me know if you have any questions or concerns. If you want to see some examples of peer review, you can take a look at some of the other groups' docs. It doesn't have to be anything long – just something to show you've had a look at the other groups' work. If it works best for your group, you can also nominate one person per week to represent your group and do the peer review.
Please review Group 9 ASAP. We will leave our facilitator feedback on the docs this afternoon, and it would be most beneficial for you as well as the group you leave feedback for if your reviews were left before we post our comments.
The link to Week 6's google folder is HERE.
Let me know if I can help in any way!
Its also very important to understand that the first two to three weeks are a bit rough for learners – they're confused and they have lots of questions and issues. We received anywhere from 15 to 30 emails a week and at least five calls, asking general questions about the course, the platform, google docs, etc. We nearly always responded to these on the same day and offered as much support as needed. A quick response to a simple question can be the deciding factor between a learner getting frustrated and dropping out or being satisfied and feeling supported and staying in the course.
This initial confusion is also why we went with a two-week introduction period, and we think this really helps with the retention rate. It gave the learners a chance to ask questions, sort out their issues and concerns and get comfortable with the course, the platform, the collaboration tools, and their groups.
2. Associate a course with a known, respected entity
Our course was associated with the NCU of Australia, which is very well known and respected. We deal with teachers on a daily basis, and most of our NCU affiliated teachers/librarians were the first to sign up for the course and have been our biggest supporters and promoters.
In addition to past participants spreading the word, we promoted the course through our school connections in Australia – through teachers whom we've given advice, the Copyright Advisory Group (each State/Territory in Australia as well as each sector has a representative), teacher organizations, and our website (http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/) which is the official guide to copyright issues for Australian Schools and Technical and Further Education (TAFE) institutions. Once we did our initial promotional blitz, the promotion largely took off on its own, making its way onto numerous listservs and teacher associations that we didn't previously know existed.
So the association helped with the initial promotion of the course, but we also believe the reputation of the NCU encouraged teachers to sign up for the course: it made teachers feel more comfortable asking questions/contacting us, it decreased the numbers of dropouts, and we also found that many employers, such as school deans, required their teaching staff to take the course.
Incorporating the course into NCU's daily workload also allowed us to quickly and effectively respond to questions/issues with the course.
3. Arrange groups to encourage conversation and cohesiveness
In the first week of the course, we only asked our learners to fill out a questionnaire and have a look around the course. With the information from the questionnaire, we created 15 groups of four. We also took group requests, which frequently came from teachers at the same school. If groups were not requested, we arranged groups based on school location, level and sector to encourage conversation and commonality between group members. In the second week of the course, we only asked our students to meet their group and to decide on how their group would collaborate. Group members got to know each other and supported each other over the course of the seven weeks, and we think this group cohesiveness really encouraged group members to stay committed to the group and the course (as well as have more fun!).
Peer support
As an example, we had one student who was going to drop out because she needed to have surgery in the third week of the course, and she would be unable to type for a week or two. She consulted us, and we told her to first discuss the problem with her group to see if they could work something out. She did this, and they became somewhat of a support group for her and they worked out that she would lead discussion in the weeks leading up to her surgery (which they mainly did via email) and then the weeks she couldn't type she participated via a weekly Skype session with her group.
We've also been told by a number of groups that they all plan to keep in touch with each other to discuss any copyright questions and what's going on in their classrooms/schools.
Overall, we believe the course was very successful. Not only because of the retention rate but also because people enjoyed it! They're telling others about the course, they learnt the information, and if they ever have any questions or issues they now know where to find the information.Comments Off
India launches National Repository of Open Educational Resources
India has launched a new learning repository for open educational resources (OER). India's Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, and the Central Institute of Educational Technology, National Council of Educational Research and Training have collaboratively developed the National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER). Dr. Pallam Raju, India's Minister for Human Resource Development, launched the repository on Tuesday, and Dr. Shashi Tharoor, India's Minister of State for Human Resource Development, announced the repository's default license for all resources — Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA).
The repository currently includes videos, audio, interactive media, images, and documents, and aims to "bring together all digital and digitisable resources for the [Indian] school system – for all classes, for all subjects and in all languages."
From Dr. Tharoor's announcement,
This initiative is also a significant step towards inclusive education. Opening access to all requires a debate on the issue of ownership, copyright, licensing and a balancing of reach with legitimate commercial interests. This is particularly important for public institutions and public funded projects. I am glad that the NCERT has taken the initiative of declaring that the NROER will carry the CC-BY-SA license… This decision by NCERT is in tune with UNESCO's Paris Declaration on Open Education Resources and will ensure that all the resources are freely accessible to all. To put it in the language of the Creative Commons — to reuse, revise, remix and redistribute.
To contribute to the repository, one must ensure that they are "agreeing to host the resources under a Creative Commons license" (CC BY-SA) and "that the documents uploaded are encoded using non-proprietary, open standards." To learn more about contributing your OER, visit http://nroer.in/Contribute/.13 Comments »
How Boundless uses CC licenses
As the open educational resources (OER) movement continues to grow, students and educators alike can benefit from openly licensed content. The use of Creative Commons licenses in education has allowed learning resources to travel farther, reach more people, and be repurposed to meet local needs.
I recently spoke with Ariel Diaz, CEO of Boundless learning about how his company utilizes Creative Commons CC licenses. This is a summary of our conversation.
So how does Boundless use Creative Commons licenses?
"Creating high quality textbooks is no easy task. It would have been impossible for Boundless to create close to 20 subjects worth of open textbooks without the availability of openly licensed content. While we can also use information that is in the public domain, the license on the content we predominantly use is called Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA). CC BY-SA allows us to tweak and build upon the work of others, even for commercial purposes, and we are required to license our derivative works under the same license terms. To maintain a connection to the original author, we give attribution/credit and mark our content with the same license.
"To create our open textbooks and study tools, our team of expert "Edcurators" find the best content that is openly licensed. They revise and remix the best parts of the best content so that it is aligned with the key concepts of a corresponding traditional textbook for subjects like Marketing, Chemistry, and Writing. In other words, we take openly licensed content and add our own layer of pedagogy (important because our audience is students) and copy editing (important because students deserve to have materials written in a consistent voice that is fit for their grade level). Once the curating process is finished, we've officially crafted a resource that helps students at over half the colleges in the U.S. excel. Our educational content is openly available to all students anywhere in the world."
Why are Creative Commons licenses important to Boundless?
"Creative Commons has revolutionized the process of sharing information. Open resources available under a CC license broadens the distribution of knowledge, allowing people of different ages, socioeconomic statuses, and geographic locations to share and benefit from high quality content. It's amazing to be part of this revolution.
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The School of Open is offering its second round of facilitated courses! Starting today, you can sign up for 7 courses during a two week period; sign-up closes 4 August (Sunday) and courses start on or after 5 August (Monday). All courses are free to take and open to reuse under the CC BY-SA license.
The School of Open is a community of volunteers from around the world passionate about peer learning, openness, and the intersection of the two. These volunteers helped launch the School of Open in March. And now they invite you to join them in the following courses.
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1. Copyright 4 Educators (AUS) (7 weeks) – This course is open to anyone in the world, but will focus on Australian copyright law as pertains to education. This course will equip Australian educators with the copyright knowledge to confidently use copyright material in the classroom. It will also introduce OER and teach you how to find and adapt free, useful resources for your classes. Facilitators: Delia Browne and Jessica Smith
2. Copyright 4 Educators (US) (6 weeks) – This course is open to anyone in the world, but will focus on US copyright law as pertains to education. The course is taught around practical case scenarios faced by teachers when using copyright material in their day-to-day teaching. Facilitator: Laura Quilter
3. Creative Commons for K-12 Educators (7 weeks) – This course will help K-12 educators find and adapt free, useful resources for their classes. It will also help them incorporate activities that teach their students digital world skills — such as finding, remixing, and sharing digital media and materials on the web. Facilitator: Jane Park
4. Designing Collaborative Workshops (4 weeks) – This course brings together case studies of some great collaborative workshops that have been run in the past with an open invitation for you to share your own experiences with either running or participating in a workshop that worked well (or didn't). Facilitators: Mick Fuzz and Jane Park
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• Finished watching the fourth season of Get Smart. Having Max and 99 actually get married was a bold move, and allowed the writers to play around a bit with the series format and bring a little "domestic humor" to the show. Obviously, the dynamic between Don Adams and Barbara Feldon changed somewhat, too. I also noticed that there was less repetition of classic Smart bits in Season 4, unlike earlier seasons, where every episode seemed to have a "cone of silence" gag or a "would you believe?" routine.
Good stuff, and it really demonstrates just how far off the mark last year's Steve Carrell version was. I'm looking forward to the retail release of Season Five.
• My weekly Bond movie marathon hits week 23 today with For Your Eyes Only on Blu-Ray. It's my favorite Roger Moore movie (though I really enjoyed viewing Moonraker in hi-def last Friday), so I'm looking forward to watching it again this evening.
• I also finally got around to rewatching OSS 117: Murder For Sale with near-Bond John Gavin. Look for a review here soon.
• INTEL: I never watched the show, but according to TV Shows on DVD, the 1980s spy-fi series Scarecrow And Mrs. King, starring Bruce Boxleitner and Kate Jackson, will probably be hitting DVD in 2010.
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If Isaac Watts is known as the father of English hymnody, William Williams (1717-1791) is considered by many to be the father of Welsh hymnody.
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The things you pray about are the things you trust God to handle. The things you neglect to pray about are the things you trust you can handle on your own.
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As I survey the contemporary church, one of my gravest concerns is the power and prevalence of mysticism. It is at the heart of Sarah Young's bestselling Jesus Calling, it is in all the much-loved books by John Eldredge... (read more)
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Just three of the claims of the papacy come into sharp contrast with any claim to humility. Why are evangelicals raising up this man as an example of virtue?
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The ninth commandment forbids us from lying, but it does far more than that. It demands that we deliberately seek out the truth.
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Some Christians see God as a kindly but passive observer of our choices. After all, God wouldn't ever interfere with our free will, would He? Ask Jonah and a wry smile would come over his face.
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If all those thousands of years ago the Sage was already lamenting "Of making many books there is no end" what would he say today?
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The Internet has forever changed the way Christians relate to one another. Among the realities of this digital world is a whole class of web sites known as discernment blogs or watchblogs...
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I am a long way from mastering this principle but I can attest that the Lord means what he says. The joy that comes through giving is deeper and better and more satisfying than the fleeting joy that comes through hoarding.
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This engaging and informative book provides an introduction to the liturgy of the Siddur--the Jewish prayerbook. More than a "how-to" guide, this resource deals with basic issues for the modern worshiper, the historial compilation of the Siddur, and much more.
"Learning about prayer is a way of entering the world of Jewish tradition", Rabbi Hammer writes, and the Siddur - the Jewish prayerbook - is the best possible introduction into that world. In it, one is brought face-to-face with Judaism's central struggle for an understanding of God, human life, and the world. Mastery of the Siddur enables one to worship as a Jew and to grasp the essence of Judaism. Now, in this engaging and highly informative book, Rabbi Hammer provides an introduction to the liturgy of the Siddur. More than a "how-to" guide, Entering Jewish Prayer deals with the basic issues in prayer for the modern worshipper; the historical compilation of the Siddur; the orchestration of the daily, Sabbath, and festival prayers; the themes of special prayers, such as the Blessing After Meals and the Kaddish; and the essential experience of making prayer a vital part of one's life. For anyone who has ever felt lost or confused at a Jewish service, or anyone interested in an introduction to this facet of Jewish literacy, Entering Jewish Prayer provides a key to meaningful participation and spiritual growth.
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Oil industry support » In 2011, ExxonMobil reported giving $20,000 to George Mason specifically for its judicial training program. The oil company gave an additional $30,000 to the university's Law & Economics Center, which hosts the conferences. Between 2003 and 2007, the ExxonMobil Foundation gave the think tank $150,000.
ExxonMobil officials did not respond to requests for comment.
Utah's Federal Judges took few trips
In the U.S. District for Utah, just four of 19 judges took trips during the 4 1/2 year period covered by the analysis.
William T. Thurman, chief judge of the state's bankruptcy court, took three trips between 2009 and 2012. He attended the Economics Institute for Judges program at Northwestern in 2009 and 2012, and the Sir Richard May Seminar on International Law and International Courts organized by the International Judicial Academy at The Hague in the Netherlands in 2010.
Judge Kimball R. Mosier, who also is a bankruptcy judge, attended George Mason University's Economics Institute for Judges in 2011.
Judge David Nuffer, who was officially elevated to the District Court in May, went to a seminar on "The Rule of Law" in 2010 while he was the chief magistrate judge for the district. It was sponsored by George Mason University's Law & Economics Center.
Magistrate Judge Paul M. Warner attended a seminar titled "Mill on Liberty" in 2009 hosted by George Mason University in San Diego, Calif.
Appellate Judge Michael R. Murphy, one of two Utahns on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, attended a 2010 seminar on human rights in New York organized by The Aspen Institute. He apparently paid his own way, showing up as a funder for the seminar.
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Another seminar funder, Donors Trust, gave George Mason's Law & Economics Center nearly $450,000 in general support in 2010. As the Center reported, Donors Trust helps conservative foundations and individuals give money anonymously to nonprofits that may take controversial positions.
A representative of Donors Trust declined to comment for this story.
The Searle Freedom Trust, a foundation advocating "economic liberty" which regularly donates to conservative groups like the Cato Institute and the American Enterprise Institute, contributed a combined $400,000 to George Mason's judicial education programs in 2010 and 2011.
The school conducted conferences on antitrust law as well as "Corporations and the Limits of Criminal Law," both funded by AT&T, BB&T, BP America, Cigna, Coca-Cola, Dow Chemical, FedEx Corp. and others.
"The Moral Foundations of Capitalism" was funded by the same group, and was the most popular George Mason conference, drawing at least 10 federal judges.
BP spokesman Scott Dean says the company has no record of ever directly contributing to the seminars but he did say BP gave the law school and the Law & Economics Center more than $37,000 between 2001 and 2008.
Seminars at Northwestern are hosted by the school's Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth. The think tank, according to its website, was founded in 2006 thanks to a "generous grant" from Daniel C. Searle, the late pharmaceutical industry executive.
In 2009, the foundation gave $200,000 to Northwestern's Searle Center for its judicial education program.
Another Northwestern seminar funder, The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation — a major supporter of conservative organizations, including the Heritage Foundation — gave $210,000 to the Searle Center between 2008 and 2010.
Records show corporate sponsorship at Northwestern was highest from 2008 through 2010, when a man named Henry Butler — now in charge of George Mason University's Law & Economics Center — ran the Searle Center.
Daniel Rodriguez, dean of Northwestern University's School of Law, says corporate sponsorships at the school "ended the moment Butler left." Rodriguez says the school recently decided to terminate the programs. The dean says he's against corporate sponsorship of judicial seminars.
"These programs should be free from any real or perceived conflict of interest," he says.
Some history » In the late 1990s and early 2000s, advocacy groups and media outlets raised concerns about judges attending privately funded conferences conducted in vacation destinations like Arizona, Montana and Florida.
Critics claimed that the undisclosed trips created conflicts of interest and cast doubt on the ability of judges to decide cases without bias.
Seminars hosted by the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE) attracted the most attention.
FREE, a Montana-based think tank championing "free-market environmentalism," drew criticism for its ideologically conservative seminars. In 2011, for example, FREE hosted "Terrorism, Climate & Central Planning: Challenges to Liberty & the Rule of Law."
Critics complained that judges spent their free time golfing, fishing and horseback riding at the conference's Montana resort location. They worried that judges were being wined, dined and entertained by FREE's funders, which included Koch Industries and Texaco Inc. (now part of Chevron Corp.).
Media scrutiny prompted members of Congress in 2000 to introduce legislation that would prohibit judges from accepting "anything of value in connection with a seminar." The bill, which died in committee, was opposed by the Judicial Conference, which claimed it restricted judges' free speech rights.Next Page >
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