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Randy Bass, Assistant Provost and English prof, Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS), Georgetown University worked with Malcoml Brown (Director of ELI) on Evidence of Impact project - "what are the conditions for the most meaningful learning inside and outside the formal curriculum?" and "How do emerging digital tools make it possible to see and capture evidence of meaningful learning in new ways?" Post-Course Era = end of self-contained course at center of curric

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Professor Jim Taylor, from the University of Southern Queensland, points out that the OER university will create a parallel learning universe to augment and add value to traditional models of delivery through open collaboration networks. "This is not theoretical speculation, it is entirely viable." said Jim Taylor. In this keynote address, Jim: Refers to the "gales of creative destruction" associated with technological change where old industry can be swept away and replaced by new ones. However, the OER university concept provides opportunities for "creative construction" for universities in a digital age. Demonstrates that conventional supply of education using traditional delivery methods will not the meet the demands for access to higher education. Consider, for example: the need for 18 million new teachers the doubling of post-secondary students in the next decade the need to build roughly one new university per week in India alone to meet the future demand for learning. Points out that we already have a critical mass of open access materials, but we don't have open curriculum, open student support, open assessment and open accreditation. Indicates that the OER university concept will provide a stairway to credible credentials based soley on OER.

Goggle does more than offer search tools, maps, online docs or spreadsheets for collaborative writing and figuring - it can also offer online quizzes, map placemarking, embedding books in your blog, and more!

Kent State University's Research Center for Educational Technology site for K12 teachers, students and visitors to map out local history sites using wireless mobile devices and barcodes.

vs. Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Ed

"... massiveness and low teaching involvement during delivery stages is one the biggest challenges for MOOC design"

"social teaching" initiative with peer reviewers to identify the best teachers for any concept who then put their instruction for that concept online as "learning packets" for use by anyone free of charge - universities will be able to privatize parts of it to attach to student IDs and track progress for a fee - Capella Education has invested in this initiative also, http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/social-teaching-company-gets-buy-in-from-capella-education/29466?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en