Okla. schools dealing with 5 percent budget cut
State and local education officials in Oklahoma preparing for the upcoming school year received a most unwelcome back-to-school present with word of a state revenue shortfall.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Kentucky on target with education bill timelines
Kentucky on target with education bill timelines
Dr. Terry Holliday did not have much time to get ready. On the job less than a week, Holliday went before the Interim Joint Committee on Education Monday to talk about his vision of public education in Kentucky and implementation of Senate Bill 1, the latest round of state education reform.
Open Education Search Project
Open Education Search Project
The O'Reilly Radar blog reports that ccLearn, Google, and the Hewlett Foundation are working together to build a search portal focused on open educational resources. Everyone interested in the OER field will certainly be following this new OE Search project closely. ____JH
"ccLearn is working with the Hewlett Foundation and Google to build an 'open education web-scale search,' part of a larger effort to offer web users simple, overarching mechanisms for discovering OERs. This tool aims to direct search engine traffic to the incredible diversity of OER repositories and communities. While such a tool would not replace the more specialized and sophisticated search sites and portals that the community already uses, we believe it would expose a much wider public to our community’s materials. This is also an opportunity to encourage OER adoption and specify legal and technical conditions for making educational resources openly available. We see this project as an important step for achieving large-scale access to and use of open educational resources. "
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