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An aggregator of the blog posts for a course in open education from the Open University. Anyone can join the course (started March 16, 2013): http://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/open-education/content-section-0 Or you can just read and comment on the blogs if you want.

An open course on open education from the Open University--started March 16, 2013, but anyone can join now or later (content will stay up after it's done...for how long??)

Briefing paper on open educational practices and OERs, from the UK OER programme, phase 2. First two sections give definitions of open educational practices, and explain their value.

A definition of what makes something "open."

How is it this video (or others) went "viral". Turns out it may be profit driven more than "outrage" at education and a demonstration of poor digital citizenship. Audrey Watters will give you a perspective that is informative and eye-opening. It will help you to better understand, as well, the power of social media in the construction of "truth". 

Award-winning educational futurist David Thornburg discusses classroom design and four learning models he has written about extensively in his book, "From the Campfire to the Holodeck: Creating Engaging and Powerful 21st Century Learning Environments" Is your classroom designed primarily for the traditional lecture? For using technology to do the same old things better than differently? Give out too much information vs. using more open-ended approaches? Transform the way information is learned and used? This article helped me to reflect on the way I encourage the use of technology and how to make its use an experience more reflective of what is presented in the CCSS and 21st century learning. What is your response to the article? Agree, disagree? What model(s) do you see yourself using? What movement would you like to make in your approach?

"OpenMedia.ca is a grassroots organization that safeguards the possibilities of the open and affordable Internet. We work towards informed & participatory digital policy."

Your massively open offline college is broken

Article explaining chaos theory in relation to MOOC participation

The academic conversation on MOOCs is starting to polarise in exactly the talking-past-one-another way that so many complex conversations evolve: with very smart points on either side, but not a lot of recognition that the validity of certain key points on one side does not undermine the validity of certain key points on the other. I regret this flattening of online learning into a simple binary of 'politically and financially motivated greed' on the one hand and 'an opportunity to find out more about learning' on the other. Some of both in different situations can be true.

wiki with lots of stuff about OERs, like what they are, why they're important, how to find them, a glossary of terms, and more.