EET Learns

We now have our own Creative Commons team right here in Canada

Athabasca University is one of the leaders of open educational resources (OER). This is their website on OER

Great tool that makes any app collaborative (like Photoshop)

A summary of common learner experiences with MOOCs and Open Online Learning. Compiled using reflective pieces directly from students. Outlines common themes that came out of the research

"Around fall 2010, the college began looking for a tool that could be distributed to faculty and students for user-generated content. Said Palson, criteria for evaluation focused on two areas: "It had to be accessible via mobile. And it had to be easy to use." Ease of use included the ability for a new user to "jump into it, create something, and it would be ready to go." The instructional technology staff began a pilot using Brainshark and, according to Palson, immediately saw that it was different from what had been used in the past."

Brainshark - another tool for generating online presentations

BC is running a pilot between some key post-secondary institutions to provide online tutoring for writing for students.

Citing a need to get more global, the flagship TED Conference is moving out of its usual week-long conference digs in Long Beach, California (as well as a concurrent event in Palm Springs), and heading to Canada's west coast next year-and likely through 2020 according to local promoters.

I know, but did you see the price? Boo! :(

Yowzers that is expensive.

Look what BC has for their students. A live chat for students to ask questions about research, citations, libraries, etc. It doesn't matter what school you go to. Cool!

This tool is suggested by BCampus for publishing an open textbook

fantastic resource

"Online education is often held out as a way to increase access to higher education, especially for those -- adult students, the academically underprepared, members of some minority groups -- who have historically been underrepresented in college. But that access is meaningful only if it leads somewhere, and if the education students get helps them reach their goals. New data from a long-term study by the Community College Research Center at Columbia University's Teachers College suggest that some of the students most often targeted in online learning's access mission are less likely than their peers to benefit from -- and may in fact be hurt by -- digital as opposed to face-to-face instruction. The study did not, however, account for the quality of the online courses studied, making it difficult to draw from its findings overly sweeping generalizations about the efficacy of online learning."

Interesting article on online learning - completion rates, completers . . .