Ms. Morgan borrows the phrase “free-range learning” to describe students’ behavior, and she finds that they generally shop around for content in places educators would endorse.
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British Columbia Government Lends Support to Open Textbooks - Creative Commons - 0 views
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Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. Visual Notes of Honourable John Yap's announcement at #opened12 / Giulia Forsythe / CC BY-NC-SA The government of British Columbia, Canada's westernmost province, has announced its support for the creation of open textbooks for the 40 most popular first- and second-year courses in the province's public post-secondary system.
Open Educational Resources and Open Assets | HASTAC - 0 views
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Grad dean at Empire State: " it is the role of the graduate school-its faculty as well as its students-to create freely available materials for graduate school preparation. The School for Graduate Studies at SUNY Empire State College has already begun, but still needs further development in the creation of, in its online orientation-we must remain focused on that charge and mission. "
Open Labs/Open Hearts | bavatuesdays - 0 views
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"Yesterday I had the honor of both attending and speaking at the launch of CUNY City Tech's community publishing platform Open Lab. Built on a WordPress/BuddyPress combo, Open Lab follows in the rich tradition of similar sites at CUNY like Blogs @ Baruch and the Academic Commons. "
Capella Posts 25,000 Free Tutorials Through Sophia | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
'Free-Range Learners': Study Opens Window Into How Students Hunt for Educational Conten... - 0 views
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most students shop around for digital texts and videos beyond the boundaries of what professors assign them in class.
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Students seem most favorably inclined to materials from other universities. They mention lecture videos from Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology far more than the widely publicized Khan Academy, she says.
Building Schools Out of Clicks, Not Bricks - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Governments around the world began to realize that it was cheaper to invest in “clicks instead of bricks.”
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Although the delegates were united in their enthusiasm for the future of online learning, there were sharp divisions around issues like the future of teaching, copyright, private education providers and the importance of credentials and university credits in motivating and rewarding students.
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But we can do some things better than a traditional university. We can adapt faster.”
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The Digital Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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Chronicle focusing on open educaiton
Report: Barriers to the rise of artificially intelligent tutors at traditional universi... - 0 views
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a new report written by the former presidents of two prominent traditional universities on behalf of the nonprofit Ithaka S+R.
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However, these innovative colleges have shown less interest in using the novel medium to curb tuition charges and measure learning outcomes.
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"Barriers to Adoption of Online Learning Systems in U.S. Higher Education," was co-written by Lawrence S. Bacow and William G. Bowen, the former presidents of Tufts and Princeton Universities, respectively, along with several Ithaka analysts. It was bankrolled by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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article on new report from Ithaka S+R that extrapolates barriers to machine-guided learning based on barriers to online learning
Chapter 6: Why Openness in Education? | EDUCAUSE David Wiley and Cable Green - 0 views
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"In this chapter, we explore a number of ways openness affects the practices of teaching and learning and the motivations behind supporters of these emergent practices. We discuss the three principal influences of openness on education: open educational resources, open access, and open teaching."
The Transformative Potential of Open Educational Resources (OER) (SPARC) - 0 views
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"Four pioneers from the Open Educational Resources community offered their insights into "The transformative potential of Open Educational Resources (OER)" at the SPARC-ACRL Forum, held during the 2009 American Library Association Midwinter Meeting in Denver, CO."
Fragments of Amber: openedspace - 0 views
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"It's the new business models for providing learning opportunities that concerned me in a previous post: Why Open Education is Dangerous. Are the ideals of open education a trojan horse for commercial interests to undermine publicly funded institutions? What is driving the interest, is it on the inside or the outside of "education"? Am I a reactionary for wanting to preserve some of the strengths of a public education system? In other words, I see there are opportunities, but what are the threats? Is education on the edge of the abyss, or the edge of a reformation? If the castle of "education as we know it" is under seige, is "openness" in education the dragon or the knight in shining armour?"
EDUCAUSE Now - #49 - 1) Teaching Collaboration 2) An Interview with Creative Commons' C... - 0 views
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"To celebrate Open Education Week, we feature an interview with the Director of Global Learning for Creative Commons, Cable Green."
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