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Dana West

Extending the Territory: From Open Educational Resources to Open Educational Practices - 1 views

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    On the theme of moving from access to practice...and ways to measure degree of implementation ... Article by Ulf-Daniel Ehlers in the Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning... "examines the findings of the recent OPAL report Beyond OER: Shifting Focus from Resources to Practices. In doing so, it defines current understanding of open educational resources and open educational practices, and highlights the shift from open content to open practice. The article includes a framework for supporting open educational practices. The conclusions emphasise that open access is a necessary but not sufficient condition for the opening of education, and foreshadows ongoing moves toward changes in educational architectures that promote increased uptake of open educational resources and wider application of open education."
Rebecca Hatherley

What Do We Mean By "Open"? - 0 views

  • I wonder about some of the recent MOOCs this way, for example. Sure, anyone can sign up so they're "open" in that sense. But the materials themselves often aren't openly licensed.
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    The adjective "open" ostensibly makes educational resources more easily accessible. But "open" can mean a lot of things: resources that are free; research that is publicly available on the Web and indexed by search engines; courses that offer open enrollment; materials that are openly licensed; content and code that can be copied and modified and redistributed. "Open" can mean "transparent." Open versus proprietary. Open versus closed.
Nagwa Abou El-Nga

Event Registration (EVENT: 524269) - 0 views

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    Blackboard President of Academic Plateform will deliver a webinar about the changes in online learningmodels. The webinar intro states: " To stay competitive and drive measurable success, institutions are experimenting with new approaches for online education by launching MOOCs, integrating and sharing open education resources, and enhancing the learning experience for socially connected students. " It is interesting to hear about how Blackboard's new approaches will change the open educational resources that will be stored in the iCloud.
Dana West

Education in Finland: smart, continuous development (a bit like agile software developm... - 1 views

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    Here's a perspective on the Finnish education system from someone who also has a view towards open and free software in education. Suggests we all take a cue from agile software development to improve our own educational culture/system.
Rebecca Hatherley

Why Open Education Matters - 1 views

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    Short videos that explain the benefits and promise of Open Educational Resources for teachers, students and schools everywhere.
Rebecca Hatherley

Turning a Resource into an Open Educational Resource (OER) - YouTube - 1 views

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    An animation illustrating the steps involved in embedding open licenses in educational resources, and some of the associated IPR issues.
Rebecca Hatherley

Can MOOC's Help Sell Textbooks? - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

  • Publishers have begun to investigate whether so-called MOOC's, or massive open online courses, can help them reach new readers and sell more books.
  • But online courses do have recommended-reading lists, and enrollments in the tens of thousands. If even a small percentage of those online students buy books, the sales could add up to a nice boost for a textbook.
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    Colleges aren't the only enterprises interested in the possibilities of free, online courses. Publishers have begun to investigate whether so-called MOOC's, or massive open online courses, can help them reach new readers and sell more books.
Dana West

OpenScout - 0 views

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    OpenScout provides free online management education
Nagwa Abou El-Nga

Gates foundation solicits remedial MOOCs | Inside Higher Ed - 1 views

  • Gates, MOOCs and Remediation September 14, 2012 - 3:00am By Paul Fain Early returns show that massive open online courses (MOOCs) work best for motivated and academically prepared students. But could high-quality MOOCs benefit a broader range of learners, like those who get tripped up by remedial classes? That’s the question the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation wants to answer with a newly announced round of 10 grants for the creation of MOOCs for remedial coursework. “We’re trying to seed the conversation and seed the experimentation,” said Josh Jarrett, the foundation's deputy director for education and postsecondary education. MOOCs tend to provoke strong feelings in the academy, and in the wake of Gates's announcement this week, some observers questioned whether free, widely available online courses could be tailored to students with remedial needs. But others, including experts on developmental learning, welcomed the attempt to tackle one of higher education’s most vexing problems. “This has the potential for raising the quality of instruction in developmental education, if used properly,” said Hunter R. Boylan, director of the National Center for Developmental Education.
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    Application for low-level courses - $5,000
Dana West

Open to Innovation: Building Better Textbooks with Eleven Learning - 1 views

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    Statement from co-founder... "In a nutshell, we publish free and low-cost print and electronic textbooks, all of which are professionally edited, peer-reviewed, and typeset, under a Creative Commons BY-SA-NC license. My colleague Andrew Bender succinctly calls us the "Red Hat of textbooks." Like Red Hat, we flourish by freely distributing our core content and charging reasonable fees for value-added versions of our books. Most people respond favorably and tell us that what we are doing is exciting and necessary. Even if they do not understand OER or the publishing business, everyone reacts the same way to the 'Textbook Problem'."
Nagwa Abou El-Nga

Wikipedia:Canada Education Program - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

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    Canadian uiversities post open courses under (CC) Licenses. Widki Ambasador watch for the material that it must have the Encyclopedia tone writing and fair. Students can edit their work group members work in the posted courses.
Peter Lythgoe

Times Higher Education - Teaching intelligence - This game is wide open - 4 views

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    A Review of MOOC initiatives in the UK
Peter Lythgoe

"You need to change the way you teach in order to integrate OER" | eLearning - 1 views

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    Interview with Patrick McAndrew and Martin Weller
Jan Herder

Peer review essential for faculty participation in OER - 1 views

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    from @yayin_ko on tiwtter
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    good plug for a shift in focus from quantity to quality and move from principle to practice.
Peter Lythgoe

Why becoming a data scientist might be easier than you think - Data | GigaOM - 2 views

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    "It makes me wonder," Ng said, "if the next Albert Einstein is a little girl in Afghanistan who just needs [the opportunity to access quality education]."
Leonardo Pena

English 2.0 - 3 views

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