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Barbara Lindsey

A Master List of 500 Free Courses From Great Universities | Open Culture - 0 views

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    fall 2012 syllabus
Barbara Lindsey

An Open Future for Higher Education (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

  • More recent perspectives on learning stress the idea of learning as identity creation.
  • The idea that learning is less about transmission, or indeed less about knowledge, and rather about how to operate at personal and society levels has resonances in the current striking change in learning environments
Barbara Lindsey

OpenStudy - 0 views

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    OpenStudy is a social learning network where students ask questions, give help, and connect with other students studying the same things. Our mission is to make the world one large study group, regardless of school, location, or background.
Barbara Lindsey

Powerhouse Museum to launch open access image repository - powerhouse museum, Gov 2.0 -... - 0 views

  • “Since then we have had two million views on 1700 images but for us it goes beyond the views; it is the connection we have made with this audience.”
  • According to Bray, the connection with audience has paid off with the Powerhouse’s community now volunteering to conduct research work that now adds to the museum’s knowledge of its own collection.
  • “They have been tagging, commenting, researching, identifying locations, doing incredible images because they are allowed to use them for free and with no restrictions,” Bray says. “It allows the audience to do citizen curation.”
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  • “Our philosophy is not only about making our content accessible to the public, but getting to know our audience; starting conversations. Audiences now really want to get to know the person behind the organisation… they want to participate not just online but on site.”
  • the online archive, which will also grow to include some 50 per cent of all audio-visual content created by the Powerhouse Museum, was driven by Gov 2.0’s central premise of sharing information and engaging with citizens.
Barbara Lindsey

Next Generation Learning Challenges - 0 views

  • What if there was a way to make world-class, interactive learning materials available to those students and faculty in these high-demand, low-success courses, for free? Perhaps more students would succeed in these early “gatekeeper” courses, go on to graduate college, and realize the possibility of achieving the dream of future economic success and security.
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