scholarly journals Open educational resources for validation of global high-resolution land cover maps

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Candan E Kilsedar ◽  
Gorica Bratic ◽  
Monia E Molinari ◽  
Marco Minghini ◽  
Maria A Brovelli
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Validation Process ◽  
Land Cover Maps

Land cover (LC) maps are crucial to analyze and understand several phenomena, including urbanization, deforestation and climate change. This elevates the importance of their accuracy, which is assessed through a validation process. However, we observed that knowledge on the importance of LC maps and their validation is limited. Hence, a set of educational resources has been created to assist in the validation of LC maps. These resources, available under an open access license, focus on validation through open source and easy-to-use software. Moreover, addressing the lack of accurate and up-to-date reference LC data, an application has been developed that provides users a means to collect LC data.

scholarly journals Open educational resources for the validation of global high-resolution land cover maps

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Candan E Kilsedar ◽  
Gorica Bratic ◽  
Monia E Molinari ◽  
Marco Minghini ◽  
Maria A Brovelli
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Validation Process ◽  
Validation Procedure ◽  
Land Cover Maps

Land cover (LC) maps are crucial to understand and analyze several phenomena, including urbanization, deforestation and climate change. This elevates the importance of their accuracy, which is assessed through a validation process. However, it has been observed that knowledge on the importance of LC maps and their validation is limited. Hence, a set of educational resources has been created to assist in the validation of LC maps. These resources, available under an open access license, focus on the validation procedure through open source and easy-to-use tools. Moreover, addressing the lack of accurate and up-to-date reference LC data, an application has been developed that provides users a means to collect LC data.

scholarly journals Open educational resources for validation of global high-resolution land cover maps

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Candan E Kilsedar ◽  
Gorica Bratic ◽  
Monia E Molinari ◽  
Marco Minghini ◽  
Maria A Brovelli
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Validation Process ◽  
Land Cover Maps

Land cover (LC) maps are crucial to analyze and understand several phenomena, including urbanization, deforestation and climate change. This elevates the importance of their accuracy, which is assessed through a validation process. However, we observed that knowledge on the importance of LC maps and their validation is limited. Hence, a set of educational resources has been created to assist in the validation of LC maps. These resources, available under an open access license, focus on validation through open source and easy-to-use software. Moreover, addressing the lack of accurate and up-to-date reference LC data, an application has been developed that provides users a means to collect LC data.

Intellectual Property in an Age of Open Source and Anonymity

2011 ◽  
pp. 39-57
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Web 2.0 Tools

Current intellectual property (IP) laws are under scrutiny. The increased connectivity and sharing capabilities afforded by social networking Web 2.0 tools have added new dimensions and challenges to different sectors of society, including businesses and educational systems alike. This chapter explores why current laws do not meet the needs of a changing global community and probes into options afforded by Open Educational Resources (OER).

Types of Computer Corpora

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
Language Analysis ◽  
Different Types

This chapter will give an overview of different types of corpora and explain their differences. It will provide readers with different examples of computer corpora that are available to users and for which language analysis can be used. Based on differences of existing corpora, the chapter will show in which way users (language teachers) can use these corpora for creating teaching materials for their students. It will explain why certain types of corpora can be and are open educational resources that provide teachers with a large number of language examples. Additionally, the chapter will examine open source technology (e.g., available tools and programs for creating computer corpora).

Breaching the Paywall

2021 ◽  
pp. 222-241
Author(s):  
Samantha Tackett ◽  
Kelly M. Torres ◽  
Meagan C. Arrastia ◽  
S. Wade Bradt
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Instructional Media ◽  
Recent Developments

This chapter informs readers of recent developments with open educational resources (OERs) as well as the various advantages and challenges to the use of open access materials and repositories. This chapter explores examples of OER usage for instruction and research and discusses digital and instructional media relevant to open pedagogy and the technology-enabled democratization of learning. Finally, the chapter concludes with suggestions for advocacy of greater open access to benefit national and international dissemination of knowledge and the increase of societal use.

scholarly journals Mapping of land cover with open‐source software and ultra‐high‐resolution imagery acquired with unmanned aerial vehicles

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 487-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ned Horning ◽  
Erica Fleishman ◽  
Peter J. Ersts ◽  
Frank A. Fogarty ◽  
Martha Wohlfeil Zillig
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
High Resolution Imagery

scholarly journals Open access repositories on open educational resources

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chew Bee Leng ◽  
Kamsiah Mohd Ali ◽  
Ch’ng Eng Hoo
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Data Repositories ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Knowledge Platform ◽  
Harvesting Method

Purpose Triggered by the advancement of information and communications technology, open access repositories (a variant of digital libraries) is one of the important changes impacting library services. In the context of openness to a wider community to access free resources, Wawasan Open University Library initiated a research project to build open access repositories on open educational resources. Open educational resources (OER) is an area of a multifaceted open movement in education. The purpose of this paper is to show how two web portal repositories on OER materials were developed adopting a Japanese open source software, called WEKO. Design/methodology/approach The design approach is based on a pull to push strategy whereby metadata of scholarly open access materials kept within the institution and network communities’ digital databases were harvested using the Open Archives Initiatives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting method into another open knowledge platform for discovery by other users. Findings Positive results emanating from the university open access repositories development showed how it strengthen the role of the librarian as manager of institutional assets and successfully making the content freely available from this open knowledge platform for reuse in learning and teaching. Research limitations/implications Developing further programmes to encourage, influence faculty members and prospective stakeholders to use and contribute content to the valuable repositories is indeed a challenging task. Originality/value This paper provides insight for academic libraries on how open access repositories development and metadata analysis can enhance new professional challenges for information professionals in the field of data management, data quality and intricacies of supporting data repositories and build new open models of collaboration across institutions and libraries. This paper also describes future collaboration work with institutions in sharing their open access resources.

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