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Open education sites exemplify how technology is democratizing education. These sites allow both learners and teachers to create their own curriculum, whether it's used in or out of the classroom.

En traducción literal, con blended learning nos estaríamos refiriendo al "aprendizaje mezclado" (to blend = mezclar, combinar) ¿?, ¿diríamos aprendizaje combinado, mixto, híbrido, amalgamado, anexado, entreverado, entretejido, convergente, integrado, dual, bimodal, semipresencial…?

This course will introduce participants to the major contributions being made to the field of instructional technology by researchers today. Each week, a new professor or researcher will introduce his or her central contribution to the field. Date: September 12, 2011 - May 2012 Technologies Used: Through out this "course" participants will use a variety of technologies, for example, blogs, Second Life, RSS Readers, UStream, etc. Course resources will be provided using gRSShopper and online seminars delivered using Elluminate. Facilitators: Dave Cormier, George Siemens and Stephen Downes will co-facilitate this innovative and timely course.

"finding contributions to the change MOOC" RSS Curated by Teresa MacKinnon

Posted on | September 21, 2011 | 3 Comments So what distinguishes a connectivist perspective from social constructivism? The difference is fairly subtle. As far as I can see, connectivism resonates with similar principles as social constructivism does, but acknowledges a greater degree of complexity in the nature of knowledge and learning, enabled by advances in technology.

So much have been written about Bloom's taxonomy; one click in a search engine will flood your page with hundreds of articles all of which revolve around this taxonomy. Only few are those who have tried to customize it to fit in the 21st century educational paradigm. As a fan of Bloom's pedagogy and being a classroom practitioner, I always look for new ways to improve my learning and teaching, and honestly speaking , if you are a teacher/ educator and still do not understand Bloom's taxonomy then you are missing out on a great educational resource.

Cristóbal Cobo and I are pleased to announce that the Spanish edition of our new book, Invisible Learning (Aprendizaje Invisible), has just been released by the University of Barcelona (Col·lecció Transmedia XXI. Laboratori de Mitjans Interactius / Publicacions i Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona). The e-book is available for purchase at the UB website today. The print edition will arrive in the coming months.

As open educational resources and OCW increase in popularity and usage, there are a number of new resources out there that do offer just that. You probably already know about: Khan Academy and Wikipedia, for example. But in the spirit of 10 years of OCW, here's a list of 10 cool OER and OCW resources that you might not know about, but should know: