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

importance of being clear about your audience before you think about MOOCing!

A collaboration of higher ed institutions to allow people to gain formal academic credits for work done through open educational resources. A huge undertaking; it will be interesting to see how it pans out.

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.

Booklet by Paul Klimpel, published by Wikimedia Germany. As the subtitle suggests, this booklet discusses some downsides of using the "NC" creative commons licenses.

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

A look at some of the myths surrounding various types of MOOC

Martin Weller, Dave Cormier and George Siemens discuss MOOCs

Rita Kop paper in IRRODL

Just what it sounds like--a list of many OER repositories.

A number of search engines exist to search Open Educational Resources and are included on this page

"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."

OER: The value of reuse in higher ed  D.White/M.Manton

Martin Weller's article on big and little OERs

Patrick McAndrew talks about MOOCs lack of openness.

A David Wiley Mooc all about Openness in Education

JISC funded project led by David Nichols into peer review/peer grading. Webpage also includes reference list for further reading

I like the simplicity of this image and the questions it raises.

AN overview of the topic, with clear programmes to establish peer-grading within a course.