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Cole Camplese

Open Educational Resources (OER) - Faculty Center - 2 views

hbg.psu.edu/...educational-resources-oer.html

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shared by Cole Camplese on 30 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • While I was already familiar with a number of OER websites, I was surprised to learn of a few that were new to me. I have shared the complete list below.
  • Cole Camplese on 30 Jan 11
     
    A very good introductory review of OER initiatives by Carol McQuiggan at PSU Harrisburg.
Chris Millet

News: Online Courseware's Existential Moment - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

www.insidehighered.com/...ican_colleges_and_universities

shared by Chris Millet on 08 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • In the Internet age, walls are everywhere falling in academe. Online education, all but cleansed of its original stigma, has become commonplace. This is especially true among big public universities, which have clamored to capitalize on new markets by enrolling far-flung students. The University of Massachusetts and Penn State University rake in tens of millions of dollars each year from their online programs.
  • there is no way to tell how much actual learning these expensive projects are creating. “If you take away OCW completely,” said Ira Fuchs, former vice president at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, of MIT’s celebrated OpenCourseWare project, “I’m not sure that higher education would be noticeably different.”
  • Though often designed primarily for external audiences, these projects have also made an impact closer to home, aiding efforts to improve alumni relations, recruit prospective students, and provide a welcome study aid (and a kind of enhanced course catalog) for the university’s enrolled student population.
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  • With so much open content being created and shared through a variety of outlets, this is a very exciting time for online learning. But one of the challenges raised by this growing corpus of available lecture materials is that of demonstrating the value or impact of each new offering. In this next phase of development, the open courseware community — whose ranks are growing nearly every day — may have to grapple with difficult questions like: Do we really need yet another recording of Economics 101? And if so, how do we distinguish our version from all the others?
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