@article {174, title = {A Flat Network for the Unflat World: Open Educational Resources in Developing Countries}, journal = {Open Source Business Resource}, year = {2008}, month = {08/2008}, publisher = {Talent First Network}, type = {Articles}, address = {Ottawa}, abstract = {Open educational resources (OER) apply the principles of openness - particularly the freedoms of use, modification and redistribution - to digital materials for teaching, learning, and research. OER can potentially touch all areas of education, from elementary schools to higher education to professional development all over the world, but we are particularly excited about the potential to expand access to education in developing countries. That is the focus of our research and the topic of this article.}, issn = {1913-6102}, url = {http://timreview.ca/article/174}, author = {Steven Muegge and Monica Mora and Kamal Hassin and Andrew Pullin} } @article {197, title = {A Panamanian Initiative to Embrace the Future}, journal = {Open Source Business Resource}, year = {2008}, month = {10/2008}, publisher = {Talent First Network}, type = {Articles}, address = {Ottawa}, abstract = {The International Center for Technological Development and Open Source Software (CIDETYS) in Panama is a non-profit organization, promoted by the Panamanian government to harness the potential of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and open source software (OSS) to create social benefits for its population. An important goal of the center is to collaborate with international organizations and become a leader in Central America in the development, use and implementation of ICT and OSS. This article describes the main activities that CIDETYS will be focusing on during the first years of operations, how this initiative was born, and a story of the implementation of OSS in the region of Extremadura, Spain that inspired the creation of CIDETYS.}, issn = {1913-6102}, url = {http://timreview.ca/article/197}, author = {Monica Mora} } @article {59, title = {Conference Report: Open Education 2007}, journal = {Open Source Business Resource}, year = {2007}, month = {11/2007}, publisher = {Talent First Network}, type = {Articles}, address = {Ottawa}, abstract = {Open Education Resources (OER) are educational material and resources that the general public can freely use for teaching, learning, and research. Like Open Source Software (OSS), OER contain content that is freely reused and redistributed without the traditional restrictions imposed by copyright. OER also includes the tools used to develop, improve, and distribute this content to communities. The Open Education 2007: Localizing and Learning conference was held at Utah State University in September. The conference focused on the ability of people to learn as simply publishing OER content online does not guarantee that it can be effectively used for learning. This theme was investigated from two perspectives. The first was from the developer perspective with the sharing of efforts to localize the educational content and make it more relevant to the people using it. The second was from the user perspective where organizations utilizing or deploying OER spoke of their experiences, challenges, and successes. This report provides an overview of the sustainability, localization, technological, legal and interoperability issues raised at the conference. It concludes with the authors{\textquoteright} views regarding the future direction of OERs, based on their research being conducted at Carleton University{\textquoteright}s Technology Innovation Management program.}, issn = {1913-6102}, url = {http://timreview.ca/article/59}, author = {Andrew Pullin and Kamal Hassin and Monica Mora} } @article {77, title = {Open Educational Resources}, journal = {Open Source Business Resource}, year = {2007}, month = {09/2007}, publisher = {Talent First Network}, type = {Articles}, address = {Ottawa}, abstract = {This article first introduces open content and open educational resources (OER), then compares OER and open source software (OSS), and finally discusses issues of OER project sustainability.}, issn = {1913-6102}, url = {http://timreview.ca/article/77}, author = {Monica Mora} }