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UMW Blogs » Ten ways to use UMW Blogs - 0 views

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  • Ted Curran on 08 Feb 11
     
    This is University of Mary, Washington's guide to using Wordpress blogs for students and faculty.
Ted Curran

Foundations of Education and Instructional Assessment - Wikibooks, open books for an op... - 0 views

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    A wikibook on education, created by ed. students.
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The Transformative Potential of Open Educational Resources (OER) (SPARC) - 0 views

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  • David Wiley, also a leader of the Cape Town Declaration; Chief Openness Officer for Flat World Knowledge, a new approach to college textbooks offering rigorously reviewed textbooks online free of cost to students (http://www.flatworldknowledge.com); and Associate Professor of Instructional Psychology & Technology at Brigham Young University.
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Study Guides and Strategies - 0 views

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    This site is FULL of freely available raw materials for the Intro to Online Learning class. AWESOME RESOURCE!
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Open Educational Resources: New Possibilities for Change and Sustainability | Friesen |... - 0 views

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  • The term open educational resources was first adopted at the 2002 UNESCO Forum
  • “the open provision of educational resources, enabled by information and communication technologies, for consultation, use and adaptation by a community of users for noncommercial purposes” (UNESCO, 2002, p. 24)
  • he notion of openness, for its part, has been given legal force and definition through the set of copyright licenses released by Creative Commons, also in 2002
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  • A second general difference separating learning objects from their open educational counterparts is indicated by the absence of any explicit reference to the openness or the open and noncommercial character of the resource.
  • What is significant in each definition is precisely what is included and excluded: Each definition highlights (either directly or indirectly) modularity as a technological and design attribute for the object and its content, emphasizing the “self-contained,” “building block” or “object-oriented” nature of the technology.
  • Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT)
  • this project recently met its original ambitious goal of placing all of MIT’s course content online by 2007
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  • the funding for the operations of many of the projects is either provided by a parent institution
  • by a governmental organization
  • or by a combination of these types of sources.
  • he many projects that have fallen inactive or been discontinued
  • the nature and the enormity of the sustainability challenge online educational resource collections face.  
  • The clear sustainability lesson from both this listing of inactive projects and the earlier listing of active efforts is the importance of ongoing, operational institutional or consortial funding for educational resource collections and the difficulty of realizing alternative funding models. Online educational resource initiatives of this kind, one can conclude, need to be seen as processes or services rather than as products that persist of their own accord.
  • Only projects that are large-scale, well-funded, and able to benefit from a first-mover advantage (i.e., being one of the first of their kind) seem to have any chance of developing collections whose scope extends to all educational subjects
  • The issue of sustainability of OER projects, unsurprisingly, was one of the top concerns
  • awareness raising and promotion; communities and networking of creators and users; and capacity development, specifically as it relates to the development and pedagogical application of OERs.
  • The necessary preconditions for viability – awareness, capacity, community, cultural change – are identical with what would be the results of success.
  • a vicious circle of “chicken and egg.
  • the majority of the use of this material not only takes place outside of the USA, it also occurs outside in the context of reuse and adaptation by teachers or instructional designers.
  • it is educationally valuable without detracting from the educational value of the face-to-face activities on which the collected content is based.
  • This finding provides clear evidence of multiple areas of significant benefit accruing to MIT the institution from the open courseware project, and it provides a positive illustration of important possibilities for change.
  • “OCW use is centered on subjects for which MIT is recognized leader
  • 32% of faculty say that putting materials online has improved their teaching
  • 35 percent of freshmen who were aware of OCW prior to deciding to attend MIT indicate the site was a significant or very significant influence on their choice of school” (cited in Wiley, 2006, p. 6).
  • David Wiley presents a conclusion that may be of the utmost significance for OER: “The time will come when an OpenCourseWare or similar collection of open access educational materials will be as fully expected from every higher education institution as an informational website is now” (2006, p. 6).
  • Simply put, this is enlightened institutional self-interest.
  • student recruitment
  • the potential for improving teaching and for better supporting learning
  • a kind of viral marketing of the quality of teaching and learning in areas of strategic institutional interest
  • They need not risk financial and cultural capital on creating yet another collection or repository, but instead can invest it in the quality and accessibility of their course offerings.
  • Open CourseWare Consortium and its OCW finder
  • It only asks of its members a contribution of 12 courses to its growing collection of over 10,000 courses
  • The point, as Wiley explains, is that “this strategy of openness” holds out the promise of “catalyzing further innovations” (2006).
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Open Education: A New Paradigm - 0 views

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  • technology has produced inconsistent results
  • Siloed institutions and enterprise applications, lack of data interoperability, escalating total cost of ownership, and absence of industry standards contribute to inefficient processes, creating barriers to collaboration and innovation.
  • more open access to education for more students, regardless of their institution, the region they live in, or any other factor
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  • To address these challenges, the education industry must offer
  • more open data and processes within and across institutions to improve quality and outcomes measurements
  • a more open culture of collaboration to foster reuse and sharing, to ultimately lower costs of operation and delivery within the industry
  • Many educational institutions are taking steps to embrace open education by creating more open, flexible processes and data access to improve quality and performance outcomes, while lowering cost.
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  • "Open access will revolutionize 21st century knowledge work and accelerate the diffusion of ideas and evidence that support just in time learning and the evolution of thinking in a number of disciplines." Daniel Pesut (Indiana University School of Nursing, USA)
  • They are an outstanding source of medical and scientific information." Jeffrey M. Weinberg (St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, USA)
  • "Open access journals are extremely useful for graduate students, investigators and all other interested persons to read important scientific articles and subscribe scientific journals. Indeed, the research articles span a wide range of area and of high quality. This is specially a must for researchers belonging to institutions with limited library facility and funding to subscribe scientific journals." Debomoy K. Lahiri (Indiana University School of Medicine, USA)
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  • "Open access journals represent a major break-through in publishing. They provide easy access to the latest research on a wide variety of issues. Relevant and timely articles are made available in a fraction of the time taken by more conventional publishers. Articles are of uniformly high quality and written by the world's leading authorities." Robert Looney (Naval Postgraduate School, USA)
  • "Not only do open access journals greatly improve the access to high quality information for scientists in the developing world, it also provides extra exposure for our papers." J. Ferwerda (University of Oxford, UK)
  • "In principle, all scientific journals should have open access, as should be science itself.
  • "The widest possible diffusion of information is critical for the advancement of science. In this perspective, open access journals are instrumental in fostering researches and achievements." Alessandro Laviano (Sapienza - University of Rome, Italy)
  • "Open access journals are probably one of the most important contributions to promote and diffuse science worldwide." Jaime Sampaio (University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal)
  • "Open access journals make up a new and rather revolutionary way to scientific publication. This option opens several quite interesting possibilities to disseminate openly and freely new knowledge and even to facilitate interpersonal communication among scientists." Eduardo A. Castro (INIFTA, Argentina)
  • "Open access journals are freely available online throughout the world, for you to read, download, copy, distribute, and use. The articles published in the open access journals are high quality and cover a wide range of fields." Kenji Hashimoto (Chiba University, Japan)
  • "Open Access journals offer an innovative and efficient way of publication for academics and professionals in a wide range of disciplines. The papers published are of high quality after rigorous peer review and they are Indexed in: major international databases. I read Open Access journals to keep abreast of the recent development in my field of study." Daniel Shek (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
  • Ted Curran on 09 Mar 11
     
    This is a list of quotable testimonials about the value and quality of open educational journals from some respected institutions worldwide.
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