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Doug Breitbart

Pearson Project Will Let Professors Mix Free and Paid Content in E-Textbooks - Wired Ca... - 0 views

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    "The instructor can then pull together material from various sources into one e-book-two chapters from a published textbook, three videos from MIT's OpenCourseWare, and a research study from Harvard University, for example. The instructor can also upload his or her own material, like a syllabus for the course. The system then calculates a price for the Pearson and third-party content."
Doug Breitbart

A Dot-Com Entrepreneur's Ambition: Drive Education Costs to Zero - Technology - The Chr... - 0 views

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    "He compares traditional teaching to "giving people thousands of rubber mallets and asking them to drill a hole through a mountain." He said, "We need nitroglycerine." His "nitroglycerine" is Saylor.org, a nonprofit online university he backs as sole trustee of the Saylor Foundation. Saylor's model is to offer students a free, one-stop shop for self-paced college courses. Saylor.org aggregates free content offered by open-source providers like MIT OpenCourseWare and Open Yale Courses, and groups it so that students can pursue a continuous sequence of courses in a major. The model takes a different approach than that of high-profile providers of massive open online courses, or MOOC's, mainly in its role as an aggregator of online content into comprehensive courses. Instead of following a professor through a series of video lectures and peer-graded exercises on Coursera, for example, students in Saylor courses read, listen to, and watch material from different sources and grade themselves using answer keys."
Doug Breitbart

Saylor.org - Free Online Courses Built by Professors - 0 views

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    "Saylor.org is a free and open collection of college level courses. There are no registrations or fees required to take our courses, and you will earn a certificate upon completion of each course. Because we are not accredited, you will not earn a college degree or diploma; however, our team of experienced college professors has designed each course so you will be able to achieve the same learning objectives as students enrolled in traditional colleges."
Doug Breitbart

Connexions - Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities - 0 views

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    "Connexions is: a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute: authors create and collaborate instructors rapidly build and share custom collections learners find and explore content"
Doug Breitbart

Ten Years Later: Why Open Educational Resources Have Not Noticeably Affected Higher Edu... - 1 views

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    "Ten Years Later: Why Open Educational Resources Have Not Noticeably Affected Higher Education, and Why We Should Care"
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