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Detailed description and analysis of UBC's Policy 81: Use of Teaching Materials in UBC Credit Courses. Helpful in understanding the challenges of encouraging open education within institutions.

The co-founder of Coursera on digital revolution and online education. The results can be better than traditional lecture-model in the classroom. Better results means more students passing with results above average. And "It turns out, maybe not surprisingly, that students like getting the best content from the best universities for free". ;)

El Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo y el INDES, comprometidos con mejorar el acceso al conocimiento en América Latina y el Caribe, ponen a disposición los Recursos Educativos Abiertos (REA). Los REA son recursos de enseñanza y aprendizaje abiertos a todo el público para usarse libre y gratuitamente.

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Why do peers help peers to share and co-produce knowledge? Research suggests that there is a whole set of motivations that makes people share their knowledge, a mixture between altruistic and self-serving motives

I agree that the 14 reasons what makes people share knowledge. great learning to share and great sharing to learn. reciprocating just like teaching and learning vis a vis learning with teaching.

Learning modes and principles of open, commons-based peer-production therefor have the potential to provide the "gold standard" of enhancing future skills, competencies, connections, capacities of people and their organisations on a global scale. In short: peer-to-peer learning around open, commons-based peer-production is a game changer in international development cooperation.