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As you can see, this is a truly inspired project that combines big picture vision (open education as a movement) with practical outcomes (using Mozilla/CC to create applied tools and resources) supported and realised by a great group of open minded educators. But great ideas are nothing if they aren't transformed into action (Paolo Freire's idea of "praxis")

Alex Reid worries that many people wouldn't be able to handle a DIY education absent institutional structure without first going through that institutionally structured education first.

This is a nice intro presentation on the benefits of Diigo for educators. relevant reference points and citations.

Ways to Bring Open Source into Education

Wiley's presentation on the disaggregated future of education. Open education let's us look under hood and tinker, one result is that people take things apart and re-assemle in new ways. Good background for seminar 1.

My colleagues and I believe on the notion that access to knowledge and education is a right, hence, should be dealt in a rights-based approach

Search all of these Open Education Sites from one place. Got a new site? Log in as username: edtechpost_guest (same password) and add it to the list. Simple, eh?

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.

Highly recommended conference for open education.

Can you believe this????

"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."

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

"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. "

Hopefully the Philippines can be more open to this idea.

A project that use Buddypress on K12 school in Michigan

Buddypress in K12 school

This article focuses on the OER (Open Educational Resources) repository LeMill, which is a web community for finding, authoring and sharing learning resources, provided as a free and open service to everyone at http://lemill.net.

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

This is where I found a really fantastic track for an educational presentation. Check out "Phoenix" by the group "Ambient Teknology." click the album title (phoenix) and tracks appear on the right side. I chose "Goa life"

Open Up Education 499pages

Open Translation Tools 2009 will be held from 22 to 24 June, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The event will be followed by an Open Translation "Book Sprint" which will produce a first-of-its-kind volume on tools and best practices in the field of Open Translation. Both events are being co-organized in partnership with FLOSSManuals.net, and generously supported by the Open Society Institute.