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Randolph Hollingsworth

xED Book | a book about education stuff, moocs, etc. - 0 views

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    Open field notes for a book to be written for Johns Hopkins Univ Press on trends in education, inc. MOOCs. One post is entitled: "the real disruption isn't online courses, it's their business model" George Siemens, Bonnie Stewart, and Dave Cormier have been contracted to write for Johns Hopkins University Press, and they expect the book to be published in mid-2013. They started the first Massive Open Online Course (MOOCs), together with Stephen Downes, in 2008.
Randolph Hollingsworth

Why Some Elite Colleges Give Away Courses Online - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 2 views

  • is there evidence of their learning effectiveness? A. That's part of what makes the OLI [Open Learning Initiative, based at Carnegie Mellon University] so unique, is that built into the environment itself, that accomplishes the teaching, is the mechanism for assessment. ... They have given a control group and a variable group the same final, and found that the students using OLI aren't hurt in the slightest by not having had the same level of in-person instruction—that the system did just as well, if not better, at teaching them this material. ... Beyond those two studies, there really hasn't been a systematic appraisal of learning outcomes based on openly available material writ large. No one disputes that these open-courseware initiatives have done much good. But it's impossible, with the currently available data, to determine how much good.
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    Article by Marc Parry on Unlocking the Gates (Princeton University Press), a new book by Taylor Walsh, is a research analyst with Ithaka S+R, the research division of the nonprofit Ithaka consulting group, which supported the project together with the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Christopher Rice

The Power of Open - 0 views

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    Creative Commons produces an e-book with stories of open content and cc-licenses.
Randolph Hollingsworth

The MOOC Guide, moderated by Stephen Downes - 0 views

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    The purpose of this document is two-fold: - to offer an online history of the development of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - to use that history to describe major elements of a MOOC Each chapter of this guide looks at one of the first MOOCs and some early influences. It contains these parts: - a description of the MOOC, what it did, and what was learned - a description of the element of MOOC theory learned in the offering of the course - practical tools that can be used to develop that aspect of a MOOC - practical tips on how to be successful Contribute to this Book You are invited to contribute. If you participated in a MOOC, add a paragraph describing your experience (you can sign your name to it, so we know it's a personal story). If you know of resources or can add information about an element of MOOC theory, add to or edit the text that already exists. If you know of tools, provide a link to the tool, a short description, and your assessment of the tool. If you have a tip, add the tip. In order to participate, please email or message your contact details, and we'll you to the list of people who can edit pages. Send your request to stephen@downes.ca
Randolph Hollingsworth

Free Technology for Teachers: Free 33 Page Guide - Google for Teachers - 0 views

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    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!
Randolph Hollingsworth

Patell and Waterman's History of New York · Being a … course, companion, blog... - 0 views

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    An example of a faculty-centered open educational resource for the celebration of local cultures. "The Project on New York Writing seeks to generate significant new research and teaching about New York's relationship to American and global literatures and cultures.... The Project will offer students of New York literature and culture resources with which to interpret the palimpsest that is New York, to help them make sense of the myriad narratives that the city generates. One of the Project's chief aims is conservancy: we hope to preserve the history of New York writing for future generations. But another aim is the promotion of innovation: we hope to encourage all whom the Initiative serves to add to the living culture of city, reading and rewriting its narratives, enlarging the literary construct that is New York."
Randolph Hollingsworth

CourseSmart: Online & downloadable textbooks. Half the price of printed books - 0 views

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    Largest source for etextbooks; best way for materials to be accessible for ADA
Randolph Hollingsworth

Affordable Learning Solutions, California State University - 0 views

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    The CSU's Affordable Learning Solutions Campaign is designed to enable faculty to choose and provide quality educational content that is more affordable for their students. CSU students typically pay over $800 per year for their books. By reducing their expenses, we believe we can provide better access to a quality CSU learning experience. We are launching this campaign in 2010 and will be continuously improving the services to CSU faculty and students each semester. The Affordable Learning Solutions website is designed to: - Make it easy for faculty, staff, and students to find no/low cost course content that can substitute for more costly textbooks Enable faculty to be recognized for their efforts in reducing costs for students - Share practices for using no/low cost digital content in CSU courses - Support campuses in customizing their strategies to enable affordable learning solutions For example: As part of a three-year partnership with Nature Publishing Group (NPG), publisher of the world's leading scientific journal Nature, CSU faculty guided and advised the development of NPG's Principles of Biology - the first in a series of interactive "born digital" textbooks. The text will be incorporated into courses for students at the Los Angeles, Northridge and Chico campuses starting in the 2011/2012 academic year.
Randolph Hollingsworth

Digital Media Project - Berkman Ctr for Internet and Society, Harvard U - 0 views

  • Lawyers, copyright officers for universities, book publishers, and even educators tend to defer to a conservative picture of copyright law and refrain from contributing to and participating in a robust commons. The TEACH Act indirectly encourages such caution by requiring institutions to prevent retention and unauthorized dissemination of copyrighted works that are shown in the classroom; the result is that schools may decide not to take advantage of the Act's provisions out of fear of sanctions for noncompliance.
  • erring on the side of caution may in turn negatively serve the future of the fair use defense; if educators and others are unwilling to engage in new and creative uses of copyrighted materials, then legislators may respond by limiting fair use
  • Noncommercial educational initiatives must struggle against the rise of a "clearance culture" that requires licenses for educational uses of content that are minimal or highly transformative
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    Mellon Fndtn $ to study educational uses of content in the digital age, including "(i) student use, collection, and creation of diverse content (e.g. web pages, images, video, and audio); (ii) digital activity by other types of established institutions (e.g. public broadcasting; museums); (iii) educational content assembled and presented outside of any traditional institution, particularly on the internet (e.g. the Red Hot Jazz Archive; the Victorian Web); and (iv) grass-roots open source educational projects (e.g. Wikipedia; the online Samuel Pepys Diary)." Also addressing legal obstacles for good practices and effective use of digital media.
Christopher Rice

Stephen Downes: ebook on openness - 1 views

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    A response, in many ways, to Anya Kamenetz's critique of the readability/accessibility of Downes' work.
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