Open Educational Resources

different programming languages on this site as well as informative articles and forums if you still have questions

for week 2

"The predominance of fragmented learning divided up into disciplines often makes us unable to connect parts and wholes; it should be replaced by learning that can grasp subjects within their context, their complex, their totality."

Thanks for this Scott. I read recently that it is not the ability to attend to multiple activities when multitasking that is so detrimental to learning it is the lack of ability to concentrate. Read it on a Ed blog. I will see if I can find it

read and sign if you agree

This week our class is going to the movies. Copyright can be a bit dry, but RIP: A Reminx Manifesto is not dry!

Larry Sanger (wikipedia co-founder) is behind this

This is the current issue of Educause Review, timely to our course and discussion. I haven't had a chance to read yet (has bookmarking replaced reading?)

"Book industry trends: Colleg"

This ten minute movie, directed by Eric Faden, came out of Stanford University's Fair Use Project Documentary Film Program. Stanford's Fair Use Project--to which Stanford Law professor, Copyright guru, Creative Commons advocate and Wired writer Lawrence Lessig contributes--was founded to "support to a range of projects designed to clarify, and extend, the boundaries of fair use in order to enhance creative freedom." And, well, the movie is very creative, and certainly seems to take the boundaries of fair use about as far as they can go.

Just following up on the question of textbook sales in Canada. Trend is an increase in textbooks, but I'll continue to look for more uptodate data.

"Open: Accessibility [edit] Open educational resources are an internet phenomenon, because currently only the internet can offer the almost zero-cost and universal access that characterizes OER. OER are generally available for public use, without password-protection or registration requirements. Accessibility can also be used in the narrower sense of ensuring that OER are accessible to disabled users. A higher degree of openness concerning accessibility relates to the freedom to study the work and to apply knowledge acquired from it. Underdeveloped or poor infastructure also need to be considered when thinking about open access. [5] Teachers without boarders are attempting to address this issue in developing nations by partnering with centers where internet is publicly available. They encourage Teachers with access to share with those without access [6]"

Gillian's choice for wiki assignment Oh yes, and Schalk's!