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I agree with most of this. Change doesn't need to be massive, just a shift in favour of short, high-quality 're-purposeable' objects, to stay at the forefront of the new wave.

Great article, thanks for sharing. I also agree with most of this. Having participated in a MOOC, I don't think this form of learning will takeover. I think there are a couple of very good quotes here that we should include in our white paper e.g., "A reputation for innovative teaching will be invaluable in the fight for domestic and international student dollars." and "Incentives at all our universities are based on research output, so academics have little incentive to embrace educational reform. The universities that succeed in transforming education will not be those that work on a top down approach. That cannot work. Rather, it is the universities that develop the incentives and motivation for "bottom up" academic-led reform who will be tomorrow's leaders in tertiary education."

We grabbed five minutes with Steven Schwartz, VC at Macquarie University, to talk about the online course revolution and how the UK and Australia compare on social mobility

Interesting article. The key concept I took away was multiple perspectives where "Citizens could watch multiple versions of the same basic courses taught by different professors across the country and see a variety of ways of approaching the same questions".. but I wonder (especially for 1st yr students) if students would listen to multiple lectures on the same topic?

Info about MOOCs and some suggestions about where Universities could start .  And a section on If not MOOC then what? which is interesting :)

An interesting article about how the University of Lincoln is making their OER resources more "discoverable".

Mark McGuire's Blog.  slides and audio recording from a seminar that he presented at the "Open Educational Resources Seminar" at the University of Otago on 28 June 2012

Rob, towards the end of this articles there are some good quotes about the need for Universities to become more open that might be useful for the white paper. I've highlighted a few sections.

Zaid Ali Alsagoff - 166 slides - but has some good stuff about advantages & challenges of OER, University models etc.

Nice review with 2 interesting concepts: - distinguish between 'content' and 'process in Open Ed - distinguish between 'push' and 'pull' models Push models (e.g. MOOCs) provide open access to a structured course experience. Pull models enable academics to choose the OERs they want to use for their context. Summary: "In summary, OERs as they are currently being promoted (the current ''push' model), will be a passing fad with respect to mainstream university and college education, because the core assumptions on which initiatives such as edX are based are false. However, OERs in terms of resources freely available over the web will be a game-changer, but in a 'pull' rather than a 'push' model. The one exception to this will be in the area of continuing education for the masses, where there will be continuing demand for structured, prepackaged courses built around the edX model. In other words, we need a little more humility about the potential role of OERs. There are niche markets such as continuing education that can still be very large that can be served by initiatives such as edX and MOOCs. But the real value of OERs will be to shift instructors away from the creation and delivery of content to focusing on how best learning can be developed and facilitated for, in and by our students. This way we will avoid developing automatons and instead will be developing people who can think for themselves."

Nice analysis of the Oz situation. I particularly liked Fig 2 and associated text, where they identify different reasons for university study and where online approaches might or might not be appropriate.

"Nothing suggests that they are particularly talented in teaching, especially teaching online."

you beat me again!

I particularly like the last line - "Open learning is a movement that isn't going to go away,"