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Open Educational Resources
By Saleem A, Department Member, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, INDIA - Friday, October 25th, 2019
OER – are digital materials that can be re-used for teaching, learning, research and more, made available free through open licenses, which allow uses of the materials that would not be easily permitted under copyright alone. As a mode for content creation and sharing, OER alone cannot award degrees nor provide academic or administrative support to students. However, OER materials are beginning to get integrated into open and distance education. Some OER producers have involved themselves in social media to increase their content visibility and reputation.
New Climate Science Facts
By Ted Smillie - Thursday, October 24th, 2019
“The Siberian Trap eruptions were a causal factor in Earth’s largest mass extinction event (at the end of the Permian period), when 96% of Earth’s marine species and 70% of terrestrial life ceased to exist.”
Peter Shergold was the accidental public servant. Apprenticed to a titan at the age of 40, he learned to lead through listening. His own legacy is the reimagining of public impact
By Martin Stewart-Weeks - Wednesday, October 9th, 2019
THE BIG INTERVIEW by Martin Stewart-Weeks: An in-depth Q&A with a key player in the Australian public sector or political space.
Peter Shergold didn’t mean to stay in the public service but ended up running the place.
And well over a decade since he left his final post as the Secretary to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and therefore as head of the Australian public service, he’s still, by his own admission, fighting the fight.
Researchers invent low-cost alternative to Bitcoin
By Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - Monday, September 30th, 2019
The cryptocurrency Bitcoin is limited by its astronomical electricity consumption and outsized carbon footprint. A nearly zero-energy alternative sounds too good to be true, but as a professor explains, it all comes down to our understanding of what makes transactions secure.
