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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??)

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.

Report on future of learning from the Open University. "The future of learning lies in a student-centered, web 2.0 empowered, networked connectivism. This is the New Culture of Learning, and we owe it to our own life-long learning and to our students to study this mode closely and exploit every opportunity to advance it."