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Ted Curran

Open Education: A New Paradigm - 0 views

  • 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.
Ted Curran

Diigo - Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes, Online Bookmarking and Annotation, Personal L... - 0 views

  • If you want more than a simple bookmarking tool, Diigo is for you! Compared with other bookmarking tools, Diigo enables you to do so much more. Period.
  • If you read a lot digitally, Diigo is for you! Compared with other information management tools, Diigo is differentiated by its focus on e-reading.
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      Diigo is an excellent way for groups of people to collaboratively annotate a website online. All notes, annotations, and bookmarks go into a socially comment-able feed that allows users to co-construct knowledge.
Ted Curran

Why Bother Being Open? « iterating toward openness - 0 views

  • I’ve always been an “argue by describing the benefits” kind of guy as opposed to an “argue on grounds of moral superiority” kind of guy (which is why I end up in the open camp more often than the free camp).
  • a free-to-access, online “digital publication of high quality university-level educational materials… organized as courses, and often includ[ing] course planning materials and evaluation tools as well as thematic content” that does not use an open license is not an OpenCourseWare.
  • MIT OCW, the website says, “Each course we publish requires an investment of $10,000 to $15,000 to compile course materials from faculty, ensure proper licensing for open sharing, and format materials for global distribution.”
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  • 25% of the per-course publication costs (not technology infrastructure or external outreach costs – I’m talking about costs directly related to publishing a course) derive specifically from the desire for the final publication to employ an open license.
  • what is the return on this investment? What benefit are users deriving from open licensing that they could not derive if MIT published these materials online with a default copyright statement?
  • Would users still receive this benefit if MIT OCW were posted online with a traditional, full copyright statement?
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