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Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.

ALISON Basic Computing IT Course - Free IT Certification

George Siemens blogs about the connectivism course, mentions our seminar.

George Siemens reflects on Connectivism course.

OER presos on open ed for students (k-12), teachers, and policy makers for those interested. (downloadable and open licensed, of course :)

"Connexions is an environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web. Our Content Commons contains educational materials for everyone - from children to college students to professionals - organized in small modules that are easily connected into larger collections or courses. All content is free to use and reuse under the Creative Commons "attribution" license. "

This is the list of course participants. We selected just over 20 people from the list of sign-ups.

Great model for running an open course in which students collaboratively write the text-book.

Interesting example of using student generation of content as a way to learn.

"While one minute lectures may be beyond the scope of imagination for any veteran teacher, Shieh reports on the piloting of the concept at San Juan College in Farmington, N.M. The concept was introduced as part of a new online degree program in occupational safety last fall. According to Shieh, school administrators were so pleased with the results that they are expanding the micro-lecture concept to courses in reading and veterinary studies."

For anyone interested in more background on the foundations of OER, licensing, etc. this is David Wiley's course. Lots of good readings and excellent discussions.

Hybrid approach to compsci education. Some similarities in approach to Dave Humphrey's Seneca course.

Relevant for the Dave Humphrey case-study on the Mozilla Seneca course. Similar approach.

I have contact with this guy and he asked me to keep him up to date on the happenings of the project I am working on in this course.