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Friday, May 05, 2006

The Open University's Open Content Initiative

The Open University UK has released a podcast interview with Simon Buckingham Shum on the university's Open Content Initiative. (The interview was released in March but I overlooked it until now.) From the description:
In this episode, we interview Simon Buckingham Shum --who leads the Knowledge Media Institute component of this newly announced “Open Content Initiative” (OCI) at Open University UK. In the interview, Simon discusses how OCI will be offering a new brand of university course materials freely over the internet (a la OpenCourseWare), and will also engage in several software/research initiatives to bring things like knowledge mapping, peer-to-peer collaboration, and Web 2.0 elements into the Open Educational Resources movement.