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Tero Toivanen

Times Higher Education - From where I sit - Everyone wins in this free-for-all - 4 views

  • The term open educational resources (OER) encapsulates the simple but powerful idea that the world's knowledge is a public good. The internet offers unprecedented opportunities to share, use and reuse knowledge. Sadly, most of the planet is underserved when it comes to post-secondary education.
  • But while in our research we have no problem with sharing and building on the ideas of others, in education the perception is that we must lock teaching materials behind restrictive copyright barriers that minimise sharing.
  • Sometimes universities justify this position on the grounds that the open licensing of courses will damage their advantage in the student recruitment market. These publicly funded institutions expect taxpayers to pay twice for learning materials.
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  • Individuals are free to learn from OER hosted on the open web. It is, therefore, plausible that we can design and develop an "OER university" that will provide free learning for all students worldwide.
  • Working with Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand, the University of Southern Queensland in Australia and Athabasca University in Canada as founding anchor partners, we aim to help provide flexible pathways for OER learners to earn formal academic credentials and pay reduced fees for assessment and credit services under the community service mission of modern universities.
  • The OER Foundation will host an open planning meeting on 23 February to lay the foundations for this significant intervention. With support from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, the meeting will be streamed on the web, and we invite all educational leaders to join us at this meeting in planning for the mainstream adoption of OER in post-secondary institutions.
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    The term open educational resources (OER) encapsulates the simple but powerful idea that the world's knowledge is a public good. The internet offers unprecedented opportunities to share, use and reuse knowledge. Sadly, most of the planet is underserved when it comes to post-secondary education.
Lucy Gray

Learn about CC during Open Education Week - Creative Commons - 6 views

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    As most of you are undoubtedly aware, next week, 5-10 March, is the First Annual Open Education Week - a time set aside each year to celebrate and raise awareness about open education and open educational resources (OER).
Lucy Gray

Open GEC Advisory Board Meeting - 36 views

On Saturday, April 5th CST, we're hosting our first board meeting of the Global Education Collaborative. It's open to anyone with an interest in global education. We will be using a tool called Fla...

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Lucy Gray

Steve Hargadon: Announcing the Fourth Annual Global Education Conference and Call for P... - 3 views

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    The call for proposals is now open!
MariaDroujkova

p2pu | Learning for everyone, by everyone, about almost anything - 11 views

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    Free, open college level short courses, most starting January 26th. You can create, suggest or take courses.
Julie Lindsay

OPEN HOUSE! Join Flat Connections September 6, 2017 | Flat Connections - 3 views

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    Join Julie Lindsay and global educators and explore online global collaborative opportunities. Two session being run on September 6 - both sides of the world.
Adrienne Michetti

Peace One Day and Skype open classroom doors to the world with launch of Global Educati... - 5 views

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    "We hope that the Global Education Resource will inspire and empower educators and students to join us and take on the challenge of helping to establish Peace Day 21 September as an annual day of global ceasefire and nonviolence."
Lucy Gray

Bilingual babies' vocabulary linked to early brain differentiation - 3 views

  • Kuhl's previous studies show that between 8 and 10 months of age, monolingual babies become increasingly able to distinguish speech sounds of their native language, while at the same time their ability to distinguish sounds from a foreign language declines.
  • almost nothing is known about how bilingual babies do this for two languages. Knowing how experience sculpts the brain will tell us something that goes way beyond language development.
  • the bilingual brain remains flexible to languages for a longer period of time, possibly because bilingual infants are exposed to a greater variety of speech sounds at home.
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  • This difference in development suggests that the bilingual babies "may have a different timetable for neurally committing to a language" compared with monolingual babies
  • "When the brain is exposed to two languages rather than only one, the most adaptive response is to stay open longer before showing the perceptual narrowing that monolingual infants typically show at the end of the first year of life," Garcia-Sierra said.
  • the size of the bilingual children's vocabulary was associated with the strength of their brain responses in discriminating languages at 10-12 months of age.
  • The researchers say the best way for children to learn a second language is through social interactions and daily exposure to the language.
anonymous

The Open Source Teaching Project - 6 views

  • 1. We recruit people to share lessons learned about life, careers, culture, and academics.2. We apply social media as a seamless tool for teaching, managing, and collaborating with others.
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    1. We recruit people to share lessons learned about life, careers, culture, and academics. 2. We apply social media as a seamless tool for teaching, managing, and collaborating with others.
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