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Open Educational Resources at UW-Madison – Medium

In 2015, LSS conducted a pilot test of Pressbooks (an open-source book publishing tool built upon the popular WordPress CMS) for creating OER in the College of Letters & Science in Fall 2015. The pilot was a success, and in January 2016, I wrote to Unizin (a consortium of several public research universities that UW-Madison belongs to) to see whether they’d be willing to host instances of Pressbooks (and some additional plugins) for their members schools. Unizin agreed to our proposal and after a brief testing period with UW-Madison, Ohio State University, and the University of Minnesota, Unizin began hosting a full production instance of Pressbooks for UW-Madison on August 1, 2016. Our small but growing catalog of openly licensed texts developed and published by UW affiliates can be found at https://wisc.pb.unizin.org/.

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The Ultimate WordPress Development Environment – wpmudev

Over the past couple of years, I’ve written loads of tutorials here on the WPMU DEV Blog in which I share tidbits about the development environments I use. So today, I thought it’s about time I share a full environment, the kind I would put together and use for larger scale development. Roll up your sleeves and get ready to get your hands dirty! Because below is a full walkthrough of the kind of development environment I set up, and how you do can it, too.

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My Twitter Digest for 01/17/2017

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Mycroft Available as Raspberry Pi Image – Mycroft

Mycroft now has a Raspberry Pi image that is ready to run. Developers, makers, hackers and enthusiasts can download the image to their Raspberry Pi and create their own Mycroft enabled projects.
This image is specifically designed to run without any configuration on your own Raspberry Pi 2 or 3.  Just plug-in a speaker and a low-cost USB microphone, and you have everything you need to start working on your own voice agent.

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Working Group for Distance Learning in Legal Ed – WGDLLE Meetup – Online – 1pm EST January 27, 2017

Date: Wednesday, January 27th
Time: 1PM Eastern
Format: WebEx Webinar

Topics:

  1. Distance Learning Track at CALIcon 2017
  2. Introduction to CALI’s LessonLive Service/Tool
  3. Online Module Showcase: Ginger Hunt, University of Arizona (each month we will ask a WGDLLE member to showcase a blended, hybrid or online learning module)

Source: Working Group for Distance Learning in Legal Ed – WGDLLE Meetup – Online – 1pm EST January 27, 2017

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2017 – The Year to Free California’s Case Law “for Publication by Any Person” « Citing Legally

Alone among California’s branches of government, the state’s appellate courts remain stuck in a pattern of legal publication designed around books.  Other states now furnish unrestricted digital access to final, official, citable versions of their judicial precedent.  California does not.  The current “official reports” publication contract with LexisNexis runs until June 2017.  At that point the state’s judicial branch could do the same.  There are compelling reasons why it should.

Source: 2017 – The Year to Free California’s Case Law “for Publication by Any Person” « Citing Legally