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A key change at iCommons

If you're not part of the iCommons mailing list, take a look at the letter that Heather Ford, Executive Director of iCommons, sent to the list yesterday:

Dear friends,

At the 2 August iCommons Board Meeting, the board decided to make some difficult but necessary changes at iCommons. It has become clear over the past months that our vision for iCommons is different from the... more

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Propagating the Meme
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Paola · Lima (Peru) · Jun 17th, 2007 8:33 pm · 28 votes · 1 comment
 
There are the one key word to define the session Propagating the Meme - Sharing Practices to Scale Open Education: "Interactive". This afternoon we work in groups to talk about how to scale the open education movement. I can only mention many relevant words, gender equality, creativity, innovation, second life, access, global cooperation, listening to the need, cultural diversity, local initiatives...the topic is still complex, but we can manage it with many useful tools and sharing experiences. Thanks to Gunner (AspirationTech.org) for each interesting session, we can make contacts, discuss and develop a networking...people interested in open education.

I would like to comment about a initiative from Latin America: Cybertesis.NET

Cybertesis.NET is a powerful tool of consultation that allows to make simultaneous searches through a single Web interface, and to recuperate more than 27.000 full text theses stored in 27 different servers and university repositories, by means of the use of OAI protocol (Open Archives Initiative)

Each university is responsible of the production, preservation and diffusion of its theses.

The Cybertesis program is the result of a project of cooperation between the Université de Montréal, the Université de Lyon2, the University of Chile and 32 universities of Europe, Africa, Chile and Peru.

The peruvian portal is http://www.cybertesis.edu.pe which is a initiative of Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM).



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melanie ddr, CC France The platform at University Lyon 2 in France is Cybertheses and the francophone portal is http://cybertheses.francophonie.org/

According to Jean-Paul Ducasse from University Lyon 2 Cybertheses, compulsory deposit of all phDs before defense, a policy of the University since 1999, has good results in terms of OA (only 30% don't choose the OA option and limit access to the campus) because the local university organizes a 3-hours methodology course with a module on digital archiving and OA.
melanie ddr, CC France (France) · Jun 21st, 2007 11:14 pm
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