OER Resources

Myth #1. It's Simple Myth #2. It's Free Myth #3. It's Just Facebook Myth #4. Social Media is the "Silver Bullet"

Internet redefining citizenship in 21st century - Civic Information API, e.g., Kenya Elections Hub - Sunlight Foundation programs for open govt data - MySociety collaboration among developers esp open source code

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

from CHE website

Read the full text - download available. Issue is MOOC as a "tool" for educators and learners, not as an end in itself - so assessment strategies must be above and beyond test scores, satisfaction and completion rates.

Don't get seduced by retention/persistence rates - it's about the design principles, stupid!

I've always wanted to do this kind of exploration - he's right on the mark, I think. I would have added a dash of Margaret Fuller, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Friere too... And started with Tolstoy or Montessori

Using Wiley (2007) definition of sustainability as "an open educational resource project's ongoing ability to meet its goals." Wiley's three models that he characterized as follows: - The MIT model: "highly centralised and tightly coordinated in terms of organisation and the provision of services, relying almost exclusively on paid employees" - The USU model: "hybrid of centralisation and decentralisation of both organisation and services, and work is distributed across some employed staff and a number of volunteers" - The Rice model: "almost fully decentralised and volunteers provide almost all services"

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The best I can say is Second Life is coasting along.

vs. Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Ed

Univ of Lincoln

Published by MERLOT, CSU Chancellor's Office

Rhetoric, technology, pedagogy

wonderful list of hashtags to use when crafting a tweet

collaborative platform for developers working with civic innovation as a goal

While higher ed is a "platform" and not a business, DeMillo posits that we can see the marketplace finding a bypass around universities that have not truly focused on differentiation or embraced openness, states 3 "economic realities" that shows the middle tier of universities (vast majority) waste money and has completely misjudged its value - Rich A. DeMillo is a Distinguished Professor of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the seventh ranked public university in the U.S. and one of the premier institutions internationally. He currently serves as the Director of the Center for 21st Century Universities (C21U). This presentation was given as part of CFHE12 on Monday, October 15, 2012

STEAM Academy with UK's KY P20 Labs