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MOOCs - the story so far Sir John Daniel former President & Chief Executive Officer Commonwealth of Learning http://www.tonybates.ca/wp-content/uploads/Making-Sense-of-MOOCs.pdf

MOOCS that prepare students for another course where they will earn creditsfor.

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'."

Professors around the world assign their students to contribute to Wikipedia for class assignment. It is used in Brazil, Canada, Egypt and USA. Interesting: students share in the Wikipedia in multiple languages.

Think before you flip doesn't just apply to pancakes.

Interview with Patrick McAndrew and Martin Weller

A variety of daily Speaker Sessions at the Auditorium - The Expo with leading vendor demos and prize drawings - Chat functions to ask questions of your peers and grow your professional network NO COST registration is complimentary because of the generous support of the event sponsors and exhibitors.

From the Antipodes

from @yayin_ko on tiwtter

good plug for a shift in focus from quantity to quality and move from principle to practice.