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A massive open online course (MOOC) is a potential byproduct of open teaching and learnin

Although courses are under pressure in the "unbundling" or fragmentation of information in general, the learning process requires coherence in content and conversations. Learners need some sense of what they are choosing to do, a sense of eventedness.5 Even in traditional courses, learners must engage in a process of forming coherent views of a topic.

The community-as-curriculum model invert

Mr. Reshef sees his project as a way to use the Internet to bring higher education to poor students around the world.

The university is not accredited, and it offers programs only in business administration and computer science. But in June, it got two votes of confidence: New York University announced a partnership under which unusually promising but needy University of the People students might be able to enroll at N.Y.U.’s Abu Dhabi campus and receive financial aid, and Hewlett-Packard announced an internship program, saying it believed strongly “in the work UoPeople is doing to democratize higher education.”

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The list, which also includes a few open source libraries (for textbooks) and some directories (for open source courses only) to expand your tool base, is alphabetized, as each resource offers more than one category; however, a few resources do specialize in one genre.

ng list of 100 open courseware projects are designed to offer readers access to supplementary materials for education. They are free (hence “open”) and available to anyone who has access to the Internet.

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Codecademy is the easiest way to learn how to code. It's interactive, fun, and you can do it with your friends.

Learning to build web apps is hard without the necessary structure, support and guidance. We provide expert instruction, mentorship, and an immersive environm

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Three very similar compressed software development training programs have emerged in the last few months: Code Academy (not to be confused with the startup

The programs make an implicit rejection of the conventional wisdom that a pr

ofession (especially one as cerebral as programming) requires a base of abstract, academic study.

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On February 1, 2012, Connexions launched its groundbreaking initiative OpenStax College™. OpenStax College is a non-profit organization committed to improving student access to quality learning materials. Our free textbooks are developed and peer reviewed by educators to ensure they are readable, accurate, and meet the scope and sequence requirements of your course. Through our partnerships with companies and foundations committed to reducing costs for students, OpenStax College is working to improve access to higher education for all. OpenStax College is an initiative of Rice University and is made possible through the generous support of several philanthropic foundations.

On May 2, it was announced that Harvard University will join MIT as a partner in edX. MITx, which offers online versions of MIT courses, will be a core offering of edX, as will Harvardx, a set of course offerings from Harvard.

MITx courses will be offered on an online learning platform that:

Our (working) Definition of Open

Openwashing" is a term derived from "greenwashing" to refer to dubious vendor claims about openness. Openwashing brings the old "o

en vs. proprietary" debate back into play - not as "which one is better" but as "which one is which?"

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Activity Locking is an external module which sets up conditions that a student must reach before they can start(unlock) a Moodle activity. These criterion generally include time spent, score or completed. The conditions can be applied to more than one activity or resource for a each lock.