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infographic on distance learning is fab! how do I do that?

"All of these MOOC platforms appear to justify their status by promoting curricula that are equivalent to campus-based courses, with a strong focus on content delivery and an emphasis on the rigor and formality of their assessment methods.  However, some of the most interesting and innovative practices in online education have emerged by challenging these very ideas; loosening institutional control of learning outcomes and assessment criteria, shifting from a focus on content delivery to a foregrounding of process, community and learning networks, and working with more exploratory assessment methods - digital and multimodal assignments, peer assessment and group assignments, for example."

Rita Kop paper in IRRODL

OLnet is an international research hub for aggregating, sharing, debating and improving Open Educational Resources (OER). The aim of OLnet is to gather evidence and methods about how we can research and understand ways to learn in a more open world, particularly linked to OER, but also looking at other influences. * The Evidence Hub has a lot of interesting content, but beware of an annoying Google API pop-up!

I like the look and feel of this more than some of the more traditional repositories, although perhaps it's a bit superficial. It's also using more 'Web 2.0' type apps and practices such as Twitter/Disqus/Youtube and the 'Following' options Online learning platform that makes teaching simpler and learning more effective for educators and organizations. Adapt web content and tools to fit learner needs.

Potentially useful? What do you think of these standards for Web Literacy?

What is/ are: Open Education (OE), Online Learning (OL), Open Education Resources (OERs)? - a useful list of links from the Higher Education Academy

SRL-MOOC study - categories assigned to learners in Change11 that were emerging from their data analysis included 'lurkers'. More discussion on this in the context of xMOOCs or cMOOCs is given here.

Looks at lessons learnt over past 10 years of OERs and also at the work of OLNet

A David Wiley Mooc all about Openness in Education

Particularly for those scrambling to 'get in the game', from non-edtech backgrounds or non-education backgrounds, this brief list is useful. It doesn't raise any debate around the terms, simply states their 'accepted' meaning and usage.