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Barbara Lindsey

Next Gen Learning Challenges - 0 views

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  • This fall, NGLC will host a “Back to Campus” series of webinars targeting the underlying challenges facing higher education today and IT’s role as an enabler of change. Each web seminar is free and open to the public, with virtual seating offered on a first-come, first-served basis.
  • Barbara Lindsey on 06 Oct 10
     
    This fall, NGLC will host a "Back to Campus" series of webinars targeting the underlying challenges facing higher education today and IT's role as an enabler of change. Each web seminar is free and open to the public
Barbara Lindsey

Athabasca Landing (beta) - 0 views

landing.athabascau.ca

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  • Barbara Lindsey on 20 Feb 10
     
    Athabasca Landing is a secure, social networking system operated by Athabasca University, Canada's Open University. We invite you to explore the site. If you are a member of the AU community, please explore and discover the many tools and functions of this system. By adding content and inviting your colleagues to do so as well, our distributed learning community is enriched and enhanced.
Barbara Lindsey

Open Learning Initiative - 0 views

oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning

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  • Barbara Lindsey on 28 Jan 10
     
    Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative
Barbara Lindsey

Open Professional Development - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/nline-professional-development

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  • Barbara Lindsey on 15 Jun 11
     
    OpenPD (Open Professional Development), a professional-learning network that has attracted participants from several states as well as Australia, Argentina, China, and New Zealand. Draper's cofacilitator is Robin Ellis, a technology coordinator from Quakertown, Pennsylvania.
Barbara Lindsey

Distance Learning Courses and Adult Education - The Open University - 0 views

www.open.ac.uk

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  • Barbara Lindsey on 23 Aug 11
     
    Fall 2011 syllabus
Barbara Lindsey

The OU's mission | About the OU | Open University - 0 views

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  • We promote educational opportunity and social justice by providing high-quality university education to all who wish to realise their ambitions and fulfil their potential.
  • Nearly all of our undergraduate courses have no formal entry requirements, either prior qualifications or experience.
  • We believe that it is the qualifications with which our students leave, rather than those with which they enter, that count.
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  • We have an Access Centre dedicated to ensuring our disabled students are provided with whatever technical and practical support they need to study successfully. Support can mean anything from special computer software to sitting exams in their own home, having a personal assistant at day or residential school, and advice on available funding support.
  • We have developed a range of ways to include people from under-represented groups in higher education. Working in partnership with locally-based organisations we are able to offer programmes that reach out to potential students in their communities. And we are also working to make sure that these students receive the support they need to succeed in their studies.
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      Barbara Lindsey on 26 Sep 11
       
      Where do we see this approach in the U.S.? Why?
  • As part of our mission we are making an increasing amount of Open University teaching and learning resources available free of charge to anyone with access to the internet, no matter where in the world they live.
  • Is the OU a real university?
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      Barbara Lindsey on 26 Sep 11
       
      How do they address this? What metrics do they use? How do they measure up against traditional metrics of program excellence?
Barbara Lindsey

News: The Promise of Digital Humanities - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

www.insidehighered.com/...es_digital_humanities_projects

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  • Amid financial crises, humanities departments at many public universities have been razed. But even amid cuts, there has been a surge in interest in the digital humanities -- a branch of scholarship that takes the computational rigor that has long undergirded the sciences and applies it the study of history, language, and culture.
  • The NEH held a symposium on Tuesday for 60 recipients of its 2011 Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants, most of whom were given between $25,000 and $50,000. They were allowed two minutes each to describe their projects.
  • “While we have been anguishing over the fate of the humanities, the humanities have been busily moving into, and even colonizing, the fields that were supposedly displacing them,”
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  • role-playing games
  • enabling learners to “experience” historical events or places instead of reading off a page.
  • visual representations
  • of data
  • One recurring theme in the presentations was the need for “linked open data” — types of research data that are tagged and stored in such a way that they can integrate with other research.
  • If one researcher had architectural data about New York City, and another had demographic data about the city, and each were able to cross-reference the other’s data with her own, it would deepen the context and understanding for both.
  • With linked open data on the rise, the same could soon happen with research data
  • “Linked open data is a very technical infrastructure, but the result of that is information that’s shared widely for free. A lot of scholarly data over the last hundred years or so is locked up in expensive journals that the public could never afford to subscribe to.
  • That could be the key to winning back support for the humanities
  • Barbara Lindsey on 29 Sep 11
     
    Could the creative use of technology help humanities scholars win back public support?
Barbara Lindsey

4 Reasons Why "Global Fluency" Matters - an open letter to 6th graders everywhere | Dig... - 0 views

www.guide2digitallearning.com/blog_jim_vanides/4_reasons_why_"global_fluency"_matters_-_open_letter_6th_graders_everywhere

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  • Barbara Lindsey on 03 Oct 11
     
    An open letter to11 yr olds around the world on the importance of global fluency for their future.
Barbara Lindsey

Open university: Joi Ito plans a radical reinvention of MIT's Media Lab (Wired UK) - 0 views

www.wired.co.uk/...open-university

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    "the formal channels of academia today inhibit progress"
Barbara Lindsey

Stanford's open courses raise questions about true value of elite education | Inside Hi... - 0 views

www.insidehighered.com/...out-true-value-elite-education

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  • Barbara Lindsey on 10 Apr 12
     
    fall 2012 syllabus
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The corridor of uncertainty: Why aren't open educational resources being used? - 0 views

acreelman.blogspot.se/...pen-educational-resources.html

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  • Barbara Lindsey on 16 Apr 12
     
    fall 2012 syllabus
Barbara Lindsey

Open Resources - Transforming the Way Knowledge Is Spread - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • the five functions now performed by universities — teaching; providing a space for social interaction; testing students’ knowledge and offering feedback in the form of grades; cultivating a reputation as a good place to learn; and certifying what graduates know through accreditation — will inevitably change.
  • In October 2003, there were 511 courses available, all from M.I.T. According to Ms. Mulder, the current total is over 21,000 — with 9,903 in languages other than English, including Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Catalan, Hebrew, Farsi, Turkish, Korean and Japanese.
  • The school’s Masters Series Madrid is a game — with soundtrack, 3-D graphics and interviews with executives — that allows students to manage an international tennis tournament. “It’s a great way for people to see our school,” said Matthew Constantine, a member of the IE staff.
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  • Although all of the material on IE’s Web site is free for individual use, he said, the school “avoided developing material for self-learning” because “we think class discussion is essential.”
  • “If you don’t ‘close’ education in certain ways then you are out of business.”
  • “The completion rates for students in purely online programs are very low,” he said. “If a program is too open, too flexible, too ‘on demand,’ students won’t ever finish.”
  • Mr. Mulder also warned against viewing O.E.R. as a panacea. “O.E.R. is not education,” he said. “It’s only content. It becomes learning when you have good teaching.”
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