During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Commonwealth of Learning
• IEEE
• IMS
• JISC and my podcast with Executive Secretary Malcolm Read
• LORENet
• Moodle
• OAI-PMH and my podcast with Herbert van de Sompel
• Sakai and my podcast with Executive Director Mike Korcuska

This conversation was recorded on Friday 12 June 2009.

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Berkman Center
• Tim Berners-Lee speaks at TED
• Bio2RDF
• CC0 license
• Free Software Foundation
• Linked Data
• Merck’s Human Disease Biology Programme, Sage
• Peter Murray-Rust (and my podcast)
• NCBI
• Neurocommons
• Cameron Neylon
• Open Data Commons
• Open Knowledge Foundation
• OpenStreetMap
• Public Domain Dedication and License (and my podcast with Leigh Dodds)
• PubMed Central
• Science Collaboration Framework
• Science Commons Protocol for Implementing Open Access Data
• Richard Stallman
• Talis blog coverage as Springer acquires BioMed Central
• World Wide Web Consortium

This conversation was recorded on Friday 29 May 2009.

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Concept Web Alliance blog
• Knewco
• Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)

This conversation was recorded on Tuesday 28 April 2009.

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Amazon Public Data Sets
• arxiv.org
• Creative Commons
• Digging into Data Challenge
• Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
• Dublin Core
• Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP)
• Imperial College
• Molecular Systems Biology
• Nature podcast
• Nature Publishing Group
• Nature Precedings
• OpenID
• Open Text Mining Interface
• Tim O’Reilly
• Oxford University
• Papers for OS X
• Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata (PRISM)

This conversation was recorded from a London hotel room on Tuesday 3 February 2009. Unanticipated network problems prevented the call being recorded as I usually do, and I owe my thanks to Charlotte Stoddart at Nature who stepped in and recorded the conversation from their podcast studio. My slightly tinny and distant voice is the fault of the hotel telephone system I ended up having to use…

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Eucalyptus
• IIBA
• Peoplesoft
• VMWare
• Wall Street Journal piece on UWM
• Xythos
• Zimbra

This conversation was conducted on Tuesday 3 March 2009.

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Athabasca University
• Connectivism and Connective Knowledge course
• National Research Council of Canada
• George Siemens
• University of Alberta
• University of Manitoba

This conversation was conducted on Wednesday 28 January 2009.

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Continuing this special series of podcasts with authors from Educause’s recent book, The Tower and the Cloud, I speak with Dr Christine Geith, Assistant Provost at Michigan State University (MSU) with responsibility for MSUglobal Learning Ventures. Christine’s paper, ‘Teaching and Learning Unleashed with Web 2.0 and Open Educational Resources,’ is freely available in HTML or PDF, as well as in print when you buy the book.

We discuss the work of MSUglobal, and consider ways in which ideas from Web 2.0 fuse with the growing availability of Open Educational Resources to enrich both informal and formal learning.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Clayton Christensen, Michael B. Horn and Curtis W. Johnson’s Disrupting Class, and my podcast with Horn and Johnson
• Global Food Safety Initiative
• Brian Lamb
• MIT
• Michigan State University
• MSUglobal
• OpenCourseWare Consortium, and my podcast with Consortium President Steve Carson
• Open University of the Netherlands
• Peer to Peer University
• Personal Learning Environment (PLE)
• Rice University’s Connexions Project
• Rochester Institute of Technology
• University of California, Irvine
• WikiEducator
• David Wiley

This conversation was conducted on Sunday 25 January 2009.

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In the second of a special series of podcasts with authors from Educause’s recent book, The Tower and the Cloud, I speak with Dr Malcolm Read, Executive Secretary of the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). Malcolm’s paper, ‘Cultural and Organizational Drivers of Open Educational Content,’ is freely available in HTML or PDF, as well as in print when you buy the book.

The JISC has played a significant role in funding Open Source and Open Access initiatives in the UK for several years, and has a global reputation. With an injection of funds from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), JISC recently announced a call for proposals to demonstrate the value of more widespread availability of Open Educational Resources (proposals are due by 4 March).

During our conversation we discuss JISC’s previous work before concentrating on the role of these Open Educational Resources in marketing institutions, aiding recruitment, raising standards and empowering learners.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• BBC
• BBC iPlayer
• Educause
• Higher Education Academy (HEA)
• Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)
• Joint Academic Network (JANET)
• Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
• JISC Business and Community Engagement Programme (BCE)
• JISC Grant 14/08: HEFCE/Academy/JISC Open Educational Resources Programme: Call for Projects
• Jorum
• Professor Andy Lane talks about the OpenLearn Project and Open Educational Resources
• MIT
• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
• OpenCourseWare Consortium, and my podcast with Consortium President Steve Carson
• OpenLearn Project
• Open University
• TechDis
• The Tower and the Cloud

This conversation was conducted on Tuesday 20 January 2009.

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In the first of a special series of podcasts with authors from Educause’s recent book, The Tower and the Cloud, today I spoke with Professor Andy Lane of the Open University. Andy’s paper, ‘Who Puts the Education into Open Educational Content?,’ is freely available in HTML or PDF, as well as in print when you buy the book.

Andy is Director of OpenLearn at the Open University, and during our conversation we explore the aims and outcomes of that project before turning to a wider consideration of the Open Educational Resources movement and its parallels with the older and narrower concept of the ‘Learning Object.’

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Arab Open University
• BBC
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Clayton Christensen, Michael B. Horn and Curtis W. Johnson’s Disrupting Class, and my podcast with Horn and Johnson
• Creative Commons
• Educause
• Hewlett Foundation
• Higher Education Academy (HEA)
• Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), and their Open Educational Resources funding
• Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
• Jorum
• MIT
• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Moodle
• OpenCourseWare Consortium, and my podcast with Consortium President Steve Carson
• OpenLearn Project
• Open University
• Malcolm Read
• SocialLearn Project, and my podcast with Project Director Martin Weller
• The Tower and the Cloud
• Wikiversity

This conversation was conducted on Monday 19 January 2009.

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Elsevier
• Hindawi
• Medical Research Council (MRC)
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Nature Publishing Group
• Open Access News
• Open Education News
• Open Society Institute (OSI)
• Research Communication Costs in Australia: Emerging Opportunities and Benefits (pdf); John Houghton, Colin Steele and Peter Sheehan, 2006.
• Scirus
• SPARC Open Access Newsletter
• Springer
• ‘Springer buys BioMed Central‘
• Peter Suber
• Wellcome Trust

This conversation was conducted using Skype on Thursday 13 November, recorded with Ecamm Network’s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.For other Talis podcasts in this Xiphos series, see here. To subscribe to updates from all of Talis’ podcast series, see here.