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"Peer 2 Peer University (we mostly just say P2PU) is a grassroots open education project that organizes learning outside of institutional walls and gives learners recognition for their achievements. P2PU creates a model for lifelong learning alongside traditional formal higher education. Leveraging the internet and educational materials openly available online, P2PU enables high-quality low-cost education opportunities. Learning for the people, by the people. About almost anything. Our values Three things guide everything we do: openness, community and peer learning. P2PU is open Being open enables more people to participate and innovate, and makes us accountable. Our community is open so that everyone can participate. Our content is open so that everyone can use it. Our model & technology are open so others can experiment with it and we can all improve it together. Our processes are open so that we remain accountable to our purpose and community. P2PU is a community P2PU is community-centered and our governance model reflects that. P2PU is built driven by volunteers, who are involved in all aspects of the project. As members of this community, we speak and act with civility. We show tolerance and respect for other opinions, people, and perspectives. We strive for quality as a process - driven by community-review, feedback and revision. P2PU is peer learning P2PU is teaching and learning by peers for peers. Everyone has something to contribute and everyone has something to learn. We are all teachers & learners. We take responsibility for our own and each others' learning. "

"Abstract The last five years have witnessed a hype about MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) presaging a revolution in higher education. Although all MOOCs have in common their scale and free access, they have already bifurcated in two very distinct types of courses when compared in terms of their underpinning theory, format and structure, known as c-MOOCs and x-MOOCs. The concept of openness behind each of the formats is also very different. Previous studies have shown that c-and x-MOOCs share some common features but that they clearly differ on the learning theory and pedagogical model on which they stand. In this paper we extend earlier findings and concentrate on the concept of "openness" behind each format showing important differences. Keywords Distance Education; Massive Open Online Course; MOOC; Open Course; Open Learning; Openness"

"This issue of Open Praxis focuses on the concept of openness and its growth and use in higher education. Table of Contents Editorial Openness in higher education HTML PDF Inés Gil-Jaurena "

"Antonio Fini, Andreas Formiconi, Alessandro Giorni, Nuccia Silvana Pirruccello, Elisa Spadavecchia, Emanuela Zibordi Abstract In Fall 2007 David Wiley, professor at Utah State University held a course about Open Education. That time, however, Dr Wiley's course was followed by a rather unusual group of students. The Fall 2007 edition, in fact, was available to anybody, free of charge, all over the world. The only requisite required was the possession of a blog for the completion of the weekly assignments. The present paper, whose authors attended the course completing it successfully, is an account of the experience they had. It can be considered an innovating experience from many different viewpoints and can be regarded as an example of how the world of the formal education can meet the demands of the informal one, in the broader landscape of professional training and lifelong learning. Keywords OER; Open Education; online community; informal learning Full Text: PDF This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License."

"Most people who take massive open online courses already hold a degree from a traditional institution, according to a new paper from the University of Pennsylvania. The paper is based on a survey of 34,779 students worldwide who took 24 courses offered by Penn professors on the Coursera platform. The findings-among the first from outside researchers, rather than MOOC providers-reinforce the truism that most people who take MOOCs are already well educated. The Penn researchers sent the survey to students who had registered for a MOOC and viewed at least one video lecture. More than 80 percent of the respondents had a two- or four-year degree, and 44 percent had some graduate education."

Ma vedi anche il commento di Stephen Downes http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=61414 : "Goodness gracious, the word "MOOCs" does not mean the same thing as "courses offered by Penn professors on the Coursera platform." The Chronicle can be so infuriating at times. Coursera very deliberately targeted an upmarket customer profile, so no wonder that's who they got"

Una raccolta di risorse open per la scuola, dal blog di Annarita

"Il cMOOC della IUL, a.a. 2012-2013 LABORATORIO DI TECNOLOGIE INTERNET PER LA SCUOLA #LTIS13 Curato da Andreas Robert Formiconi connectivist: studente al centro, apprendimento cooperativo Massive: senza limiti di iscrizioni Open: liberamente e gratuitamente fruibile Online: accessibile da qualsiasi browser Course: un insegnamento universitario Inizio: 3 aprile 2013 Durata: 10 settimane Modalità di fruizione: chiunque può partecipare liberamente e gratuitamente, per iscriversi occorre semplicemente spedire un'email a cmooc@iuline.it specificando nome, cognome e città di provenienza i partecipanti che alla fine del corso abbiano preso parte attivamente e con successo a tutte le attività proposte, potranno ricevere 6 CFU mediante un iscrizione post hoc al costo di 150 € i suddetti crediti potranno essere validi per l'insegnamento di "Laboratorio Informatico" per tutti coloro che si dovessero successivamente iscrivere al Corso di Laurea "Metodi e Tecniche delle Interazioni Educative" presso la IUL, ivi compresi eventuali studenti dell'ultimo anno di scuola superiore i CFU acquisiti potranno altresì essere riconosciuti, in totalità o in parte, nel Master di I livello "Le nuove competenze digitali: open education, social e mobile learning", promosso da UNIFI e in master e corsi di perfezionamento affini, promossi dalla IUL. Obiettivi del corso Imparare ad abitare nel cyberspazio Imparare a imparare e a insegnare nel cyberspazio Imparare a creare comunità di apprendimento e aggiornamento professionale Annullare il gap tecnologico fra vecchie e nuove generazioni Orientare gli studenti dell'ultimo anno di scuola superiore interessati al proseguimento degli studi nell'area delle Scienze della Formazione "

"Form@re diventa un Open Journal Avvertiamo i gentili lettori che con il nuovo anno l'Open Journal Form@re termina le proprie pubblicazioni con le Edizioni Erickson e continuerà a uscire per la FUP - Firenze University Press, l'editore dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze. La rivista si propone di continuare il percorso già intrapreso dodici anni fa con le Edizioni Erickson in un contesto universitario, nell'ottica di una ulteriore integrazione con gli orientamenti internazionali che caratterizzano ormai la cultura degli Open Educational Journal. Si invitano i lettori interessati a rimanere aggiornati sulle prossime uscite e novità editoriali di Form@re attraverso la newsletter a compilare il form che si trova a questo indirizzo: http://tinyurl.com/FormareOpenJournal Il Direttore scientifico e le Edizioni Erickson ringraziano i lettori per aver creduto e sostenuto in questi anni una iniziativa editoriale che è nata con lo scopo di mettere a disposizione delle comunità di insegnanti e formatori un significativo archivio di ricerche, esperienze e riflessioni educative, che spaziano ormai dalle tecnologie alle metodologie, alle didattiche disciplinari, alla formazione professionale. La nuova edizione di Form@re, con i cambiamenti introdotti anche nella struttura scientifica e gestionale, sarà raggiungibile, a partire da marzo 2013, al seguente indirizzo internet: http://www.fupress.com/formare Il Direttore scientifico Antonio Calvani e la Redazione delle Edizioni Erickson" Via https://delicious.com/lapizz964

"Come ci si iscrive? Basta inviare un'email all'indirizzo cmooc@iuline.it specificando Nome, Cognome, Città Ho inviato l'email, ora cosa devo fare? Niente. Da qui al 3 di aprile gli iscritti potranno ricevere delle email informative. Nelle fasi iniziali del percorso, ogni passo sarà accompagnato da un'email, poi si vedrà… Mi fa paura perchè non ne so niente di computer Questo corso, che non è un corso ma un per-corso, è pensato per chi non sa niente di computer o, forse è meglio dire, per chi crede di non sapere niente di computer, o di internet. Ma anche per chi crede di sapere cosa sia internet e invece si perde il meglio. La proposta è valida anche per chi come me ha già conseguito la laurea in "Metodi e Tecniche delle Relazioni Educative" presso la IUL? Verrebbero ugualmente attribuiti i crediti? Sì, la proposta è valida anche per chi ha già conseguito la laurea in "Metodi e Tecniche delle Relazioni Educative" presso la IUL. I CFU acquisiti potranno essere riconosciuti, in totalità o in parte, nel Master di I livello "Le nuove competenze digitali: open education, social e mobile learning" promosso da UNIFI e in master e corsi di perfezionamento affini, promossi dalla IUL. C'è una data di chiusura per le iscrizioni, o sarà ancora possibile iscriversi a c-MOOC iniziato, arrangiandosi per recuperare? Sarà possibile iscriversi anche dopo l'inizio (3 aprile), arrangiandosi per recuperare."

...dopo l'inizio... a questo ritmo, dove ci troveremo il 3 aprile? !

With the increasing popularity of online education has come a profusion of Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), Open Courseware (OCW), Open Educational Resources (OER), and other general educational resources that can be accessed online.

"Open Portfolios: What - and how - are you documenting?"

"Education. Online. Free. We bring higher education into the digital age. With our courses, online-teaching becomes interactive, social and accessible around the globe."

lista di strumenti open source utili per la didattica con consigli e commenti di Mark Johnson. Segnalati da S. Downes sul suo blog Stephen's web

Il livello di questa risorsa, che ha tutti i crismi dell'ufficialità, è altissimo. Anche chi non mastica troppo l'inglese riconosce la suddivisione in categorie e può comprendere i commenti nelle loro linee principali. Raccomando caldamente.

Una bella raccolta di risorse per la formazione continua, scovata sul blog di Annarita

"Welcome!!! Through these pages you can enter into our Project. The aims of this project are: to improve the use, discover and disseminate the Web 2.0, open source software and ITC in all kind of schools. Sharing documents by Web2.0 tools Showing the importance to work with different country and different student ages Use teaching strategies like active learning, contextualized knowledge, cognitive and cooperative learning. Using virtual world as educational tool Creating free courses for teacher that want improve their ITC competences I, Riccardo Rivarola, am the data processing responsible, Claudio Filosi is the didactic/pedagogical responsible. Prof. Riccardo Rivarola WARNING! All videos that are not manufactured by us have been chosen with great care but we can not hold accountable if you connect the same to other movies, maybe not education and / or not suitable for minors!"

"The Year of the MOOC (...) MOOCs have been around for a few years as collaborative techie learning events, but this is the year everyone wants in. Elite universities are partnering with Coursera at a furious pace. It now offers courses from 33 of the biggest names in postsecondary education, including Princeton, Brown, Columbia and Duke. In September, Google unleashed a MOOC-building online tool, and Stanford unveiled Class2Go with two courses. "

Repository di risorse OER

"March 20, 2013, 4:55 am By Steve Kolowich The State University of New York's Board of Trustees on Tuesday endorsed an ambitious vision for how SUNY might use prior-learning assessment, competency-based programs, and massive open online courses to help students finish their degrees in less time, for less money. The plan calls for "new and expanded online programs" that "include options for time-shortened degree completion." In particular, the board proposed a huge expansion the prior-learning assessment programs offered by SUNY's Empire State College. The system will also push its top faculty members to build MOOCs designed so that certain students who do well in the courses might be eligible for SUNY credit. Ultimately, the system wants to add 100,000 enrollments within three years, according to a news release."

Fueling their enthusiasm is the explosion of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, the new species of free classes prestigious universities are offering to students around the world. As educators debate what the classes mean for the future of traditional universities, one thing is clear - they provide a vast laboratory to study learning, using a trail of electronic data to examine what resources or study habits best help students, whether they take courses online or in traditional classrooms.

" Sign-up is now closed. But don't worry, we'll definitely be back! Follow us at @medialabcourse for updates. Free & Online! You've been dying to take the MIT Media Lab course on creative learning, but you're not in Cambridge? Despair no more. We invite you to join the course right here, on the interwebs. It's free of charge and we hope you'll like it. A Big Experiment This is a big experiment. Things will break. We don't have all the answers. Sometimes we plan to rely on you to make it work. But we'll try our very darndest to make sure you have a good time, and get something out of it. Weekly Lessons Make new friends, and start learning from weekly live videos, readings, discussions, and project-based activities. Open for signup now, course starts February 11th. Questions? Drop us a note in our Google+ community or send us an email at medialabcourse@p2pu.org. All materials licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license."