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Tero Toivanen

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

www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp

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shared by Tero Toivanen on 11 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • 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.
  • Tero Toivanen on 11 Feb 11
     
    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.
Henry Liebling

On the whole: holism, learning and well being in uncertain times. Stephen Sterling - 0 views

esd.escalate.ac.uk/...2571.pdf

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shared by Henry Liebling on 29 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Henry Liebling on 29 Mar 11
     
    Here is Stephen Sterlings presentation at the regional workshop Care and Well being: personal, social and global approaches to ESDD/GC in ITE Held at LSBU on 2nd March 2011, promoted and supported by ESCalate. Lots of useful ideas, references and analysis here.
Henry Liebling

The Future Fit Framework - 5 views

www.eauc.org.uk/mework_an_introductory_guide_1

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shared by Henry Liebling on 09 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Henry Liebling on 09 Dec 13
     
    "This is one of the most comprehensive and accessible guides for academic and professional practitioners who are seeking ways of embedding sustainability into the curriculum and teaching and learning in higher education. It's both fit for purpose and fit for the future."
Elizabeth Crawford

The Goals | The World's largest lesson | Organised by TES Global & Unicef - 1 views

www.tes.co.uk/...the-goals

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shared by Elizabeth Crawford on 18 May 15 - No Cached
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  • Elizabeth Crawford on 18 May 15
     
    There are 17 goals drafted to focus on the most critical universal issues that will affect us all over the next 15 years. These range from ensuring health and wellbeing, to building resilient infrastructure, protecting the biosphere to achieving gender equality. The goals and the issues they address are interdependent, and if fully realized they would see the complete eradication of extreme poverty by 2030 and ensure that urgent action is taken to deal with the threat and impacts of climate change.
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