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Delivering Open Educational Resources for Engineering Design | Ariadne: Web Magazine fo... - 0 views

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  • Lisa Spiro on 07 May 12
     
    "Mansur Darlington describes two methods for presenting online OERs for engineering design that were developed and explored as part of the Higher Education Academy/JISC-funded DelOREs (Delivering Open Educational Resources for Engineering Design) Project."
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About | Sustainable Texts - 0 views

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  • Lisa Spiro on 05 May 12
     
    "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."
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Yale's Open Courses Inspire a New Series of Old-Fashioned Books | Open Culture - 0 views

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  • Lisa Spiro on 05 May 12
     
    "Yale is inaugurating a new series of books based on its popular open courses."
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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.
  • However, these innovative colleges have shown less interest in using the novel medium to curb tuition charges and measure learning outcomes.  
  • "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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  • objective was to assess the potential roadblocks that might prevent these traditional institutions from adopting sophisticated, “machine guided” learning tools into their curriculums
  • The most frequently cited motivation for adopting online programs was “the desire to generate new revenue streams,” they write.
  • “Very few are using either savings from online education or the net incremental revenue to reduce the price of education to students,”
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      Rebecca Davis on 01 May 12
       
      there is slippage in discussion between machine-guided learning and online learning--they are not the same thing
  • Neither has a belief in superior pedagogical opportunities played much of a role in the decision of traditional institutions to push their curriculums on to the Web.
  • potential obstacles to the widespread adoption of such systems -- most revolving around faculty skepticism
  • perennial fear that instructors could lose their jobs to interloping automatons.
  • intellectual property issues might be the thorniest obstacle
  • professors might not be keen to use automated tutorials that they cannot add to and remix based on their own styles and tastes.
  • Rebecca Davis on 01 May 12
     
    article on new report from Ithaka S+R that extrapolates barriers to machine-guided learning based on barriers to online learning
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The Digital Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    Chronicle focusing on open educaiton
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'Free-Range Learners': Study Opens Window Into How Students Hunt for Educational Conten... - 0 views

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  • 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.
  • most students shop around for digital texts and videos beyond the boundaries of what professors assign them in class.
  • 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.
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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.”
  • 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.
  • But we can do some things better than a traditional university. We can adapt faster.”
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  • The role of open resources in enabling universities to adapt was the message of Steve Carson from M.I.T.
  • Traditionally, universities performed three functions, he said: “providing content to students, learning activities, and assessment and certification.” The Internet’s ability to provide more and better content faster and more cheaply meant these functions “have become disaggregated,” Mr. Carson said. But he suggested they may be about to come back together in a different form.
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Open Labs/Open Hearts | bavatuesdays - 0 views

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  • Lisa Spiro on 22 Apr 12
     
    "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. "
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How Do Open Education Resources Acquire Their Value for Teaching and Learning? | Academ... - 0 views

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  • Lisa Spiro on 13 Apr 12
     
    "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. "
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World Bank launches Open Knowledge Repository - 0 views

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    Open Knowledge Repository
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