OER Resources

A knowledge sharing network for students to share and find class-specific notes, build academic reputations and earn rewards

4 Steps that Chris Rice also uses in his EADs at UK: Meet (are we listening? reach out to students to understand their learning preferences and motivations for taking a course) Show (did we do it? develop learning solutions based on today's students and validate through interative process to ensure ideal product mix) Test (do you like it? gain faculty approval to finalize the product and content mix specific to each discipline) Work (are you in? publish the student-tested, faculty-approved teaching and learning solution) Rest (are you kidding? our research never ends, continual feedback from students ensures that we keep up with their changing needs)

Open courses for direct use by independent learners or for re-mix/use by instructors - HP-sponsored Measuring Learning Consortium will use it also to research on students' understanding of STEM coursework (France, Hong Kong, Russia, South Africa and USA)

Great blog by Cable Green - working for statewide CTC system in Washington

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!

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"

Published by MERLOT, CSU Chancellor's Office

from CHE website

Univ of Lincoln

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

vs. Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Ed

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

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