JISC RSC YH Exchange News

Two FREE workshops are on offer to further and higher education, organised by OSS Watch, the JISC funded open source software advisory service.
One workshop will examine open development as a part of open innovation; the other will address building an open development community around a software project. Both workshops to be held on December 7th, 2009, at The [...]

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The Higher Education Academy and JISC launch its Open Educational Resources programme, helping to drive open innovation across the UK.
This week’s announcement by David Lammy (Minister for Higher Education and IPR) to create an online innovation fund and the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP’s celebration of the Open University show the importance [...]

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BarCamp Apache Oxford 2009
4-5 April, University Club, Mansfield Road
(Main event on the 5th; pre-BarCamp party on the evening of the 4th)
http://www.barcamp.org/BarCampApacheOxford

OSS Watch, Torchbox, Nearly Done and The Apache Software Foundation are pleased to announce Barcamp Apache Oxford 2009, an opportunity for people involved in the computing and technology fields to meet informally and find [...]

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Workshop: Business and Sustainability Models Around Free and Open Source Software

12 January 2009, 10:00 – 16:00
Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN
How can free and open source software (FOSS) contribute to a viable sustainability model for software? How do people make money from licensing their own work out under free and [...]

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Tony Hirst (OU) has created a google custom search to look for open courseware and open educational resources. You can access the search page from
http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=009190243792682903990%3Ae40rcqv1bbo
The list of sources, almost 250 in total, is here
http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/06/university-learning-ocw-oer-free.html.
It is mainly for HE but suitable for FE and schools aswell.

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