OER Fans

Chapter - Why Openess in Education?

I was just working out how to bookmark this book to this workgroup!

Great minds think alike?

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."

you beat me again!

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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?

models for building OER resources

audio recording - Stephen Downes

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

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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

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

Fun MOOC images

Support resource for: activities - https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B77aM81pfNQ5Y2VYcFZvbHFvUXM/edit

An interesting case about plagiarism and how an open ed advocate tackled the problem using Twitter. Eventually the company in question stopped, but no apology was made.

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

Special themed issue on creativity & OER resources

A useful summary doc? JISC are very active in OER, I know a few of the people running this through MEDEV in Newcastle if you need to get any more info.

This post caught my eye as I think it relates to our conversation yesterday about copyright ownership. If copyright resides with Murdoch we have no control over the future existence of the work we create.

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