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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Lisa Spiro

Lisa Spiro

About | Sustainable Texts - 0 views

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    "This Open Education project has two main strands: We are developing an e-book which will be a collection of university academics' narratives about their experiences of learning and teaching in their discipline. We are engaging with institutional policy surrounding OER resources as well afunding OERs."
Lisa Spiro

Yale's Open Courses Inspire a New Series of Old-Fashioned Books | Open Culture - 0 views

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    "Yale is inaugurating a new series of books based on its popular open courses."
Lisa Spiro

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. "
Lisa Spiro

How Do Open Education Resources Acquire Their Value for Teaching and Learning? | Academ... - 0 views

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    "Proponents of open education agree that "education can be improved by making educational assets visible and accessible and by harnessing the collective wisdom of a community of practice and reflection."1 Educators at all levels can take advantage of a diverse set of resource repositories for a wide range of disciplines. However, to maximize the utility of these resource collections, it is crucial to incorporate into their design specific strategies to support their sustainability by ensuring both short-term and long-term value. Furthermore, by purposefully integrating learning materials with teaching expertise, the value of open educational resources for teachers can be greatly enhanced. "
Lisa Spiro

MIT OpenCourseWare Turns 10: What's Next for Open Education? - 0 views

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    "April will mark the 10th anniversary of MIT OpenCourseWare, the university's initiative to provide free and open access to its core academic content - the syllabi, lecture notes, problem sets and solutions, exams, reading lists, and even a selection of video lectures from over MIT 2,000 courses. "
Lisa Spiro

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. "
Lisa Spiro

EdNET Insight | Tomorrow's Business Models: The Un-Wikipedia, OER Money-Making Educatio... - 0 views

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    ". Gary Lopez, Executive Director at the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE), and his team think there's a promising middle ground between crowd-sourced Wikipedia-like free instructional resources and traditional publisher-centric product development and distribution. They've just finished developing an interesting example of this new-age product, an Algebra I package offered on a part free, part paid business model that they see as the future of educational publishing"
Lisa Spiro

Five critiques of the Open Educational Resources movement | jeremyknox.net - 0 views

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    "This post will review existing literature on Open Educational Resources, introducing five critiques: 1.) An under-theorisation of 'openness', in which the concepts of positive and negative liberty will be used to suggest a neglect of coherent theorisation concerning the practice of self-directed learning. 2.) The simultaneous privileging and rejection of institutional authority, where OER literature will be shown to endorse the reputations of established institutions while claiming liberation from them. 3.) The diminishing of the role of pedagogy, in which OER will be aligned with an untheorised learner-centred model of education. 4.) Humanistic assumptions of unproblematic self-direction and autonomy, and 5.) an alignment with the needs of capital, in which a Foucauldian interpretation of subjectivity will offer alternative perspectives on the notions of power and emancipation in OER discourse. "
Lisa Spiro

Evaluation toolkit : OER Synthesis & Evaluation - 0 views

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    "We are delighted to launch our new Evaluation Tookit which aims to benefit UKOER projects by providing a structured way to collate their findings and observations and can also be used in the reporting process. "
Lisa Spiro

The Directory of Open Access Books: a new service of OAPEN in partnership with OpenEdit... - 0 views

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    "OAPEN is pleased to announce a new service for Open Access monographs: the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). DOAB will provide a searchable index to peer-reviewed monographs and edited volumes published under an Open Access business model, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher's website or repository."
Lisa Spiro

Mobility Shifts :: Matt Gold - 1 views

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    "Open Education: The University and The Commons"
Lisa Spiro

The openness-creativity cycle in education | Weller | Journal of Interactive Media in E... - 1 views

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    " The nature of openness in education has transformed from just relating to open access to encompass a wide range of interpretations. This paper explores the concept of an 'open scholar' whose practice is shaped by digital and networked technologies. It is argued that openness represents an effective working method in this environment, and that creativity plays a key role in realising this. The relationship between creativity and open educational resources is outlined to demonstrate that there is a positive feedback loop between the two processes. "
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