OERandtheLiberalArts

" In this session our team of instructional designers and faculty will share our experiences and what we learned by utilizing an open education course (MOOC) and face-to-face study group sessions for professional development on open education. Incorporating a study group with the online open education course was found to be effective for keeping participants engaged and moving forward through the course topics."

"Writer's Web is a free, public-access handbook designed & maintained by University of Richmond students & faculty."

Very interesting. I note they see Bologna Process as playing a key role (in the linked pdf, http://www.oer-europe.net/oertest/output/EDEN%20Porto%20OER.pdf ).

Very nice project. The results are pretty rich: -LMS role is significant. I wonder if that's a general principle. -faculty needed a br... incentive. -the pacing change is interesting.

"Successful completion of the course on Human-Computer Interaction by Coursera ( https://www.coursera.org/course/hci ) will be granted the same credit that they would get attending the departmen't own HCI course. The students enrolling for the course must contact Giulio Jacucci directly at the same time they enter to the course."

Whoa! Big step.

"Rice University this year started an unusual textbook-publishing venture whose books are free to download thanks to a mix of grants and revenue from optional "add ons," such as homework problem sets. Although it has published only two titles-for introductory courses in physics and sociology-officials announced on Tuesday that more than 13,000 students had downloaded them in the 10 weeks they've been available."

Neat idea. A variation on freemium.

"The title of my presentation is "Doorways: Opening, Extending, & Multiplying the Course." I'm going to start by telling a bunch of stories about the effect openness has had at UMW, especially through serendipitous contact made via student work on UMW Blogs. "

Looks very useful.

"eight colleges in California, New York and Nebraska recently founded Project Kaleidoscope, Converge reports. Under this project, faculty from the schools are collaborating on open general education courses, which will only require students to pay about $30 on textbooks per class."

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"Open Education: The University and The Commons"

" Special Issue: Special Issue: OERs and Social Inclusion"

"Open-source textbooks, free for students to use and for professors to modify, are being developed by more companies and adopted in more classrooms. They may work hand-in-hand with the rise in free online courses to revolutionize the way we view-and pay for-higher education."

"This site presents strategies and resources for faculty members and graduate assistants who teach philosophy courses, especially at the introductory level; it also includes material of interest to college faculty generally. The mission of TΦ101 is to provide free, user-friendly resources to the academic community. All of the materials are provided on an open source license. You may also print as many copies as you wish."

Nice set of info lit materials.

"Project Kaleidoscope is implementing a set of fully open general education courses across eight colleges serving predominantly at-risk students. The project will dramatically reduce textbook costs and allow collaborative improvement of course design to improve student success."

"Instruction that was structured linearly, captured in books that were all-inclusive monoliths with a predetermined progression for a uniform, somewhat "creamy" consistency, is shifting to newer forms of instructional content that are more "chunky," beginning as a scattered landscape of digital pieces that are then assembled to support full courses" --> OER supports that shift

Interesting to compare with MOOCs, whose selling point is a continuous - er, creamy - experience.

" The main areas of library's involvement are: description and classification, management, preservation, dissemination, and promotion of OER. In order to support these activities, librarians provided expertise in information science areas, especially: metadata standards, vocabularies, indexing and classification, information retrieval, information literacy, and repository technology and management. It was also found, however, that librarians needed to develop expertise in different areas, including SEO and IPR and licensing options, but mainly about e-learning and OER knowledge, technologies and standards."

Washington: "The Strategic Technology Plan is the product of an 18-month analysis conducted by the Technology Transformation Task Force of the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges for the purpose of creating a roadmap for how our system needs to leverage 21st Century technologies to support student achievement."