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'Open Teaching': When the World Is Welcome in the Online Classroom - Technology - The C... - 0 views

  • We have to get away from this whole idea that universities own learning
  • Massive Open Online Course, or MOOC
  • privacy
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  • make sure the crowd behaves
  • "I as a learner had to take responsibility. I had to take control of that learning process way more than I've had to do in any traditional type of course, whether it's face-to-face or online."
  • hacking the format of a class
  • setting a learning context
sheryl barnes

Elgg.org - About - 0 views

shared by sheryl barnes on 26 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Elgg is an open, flexible social networking engine, designed to run at the heart of any socially-aware application. Building on Elgg is easy, and because the engine handles common web application and social functionality for you, you can concentrate on developing your idea.
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    From Hannah - like Ning but open source!
sheryl barnes

Open Forum Brain Dump - 0 views

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    Great post-conference list of ideas, especially about openness. References the 2008 Campus Computing Project report on LMS
Hannah Reeves

Education News - Education Life - The New York Times - 0 views

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    Thought this article on open access, open ed resources, etc might be of interest to some.
sheryl barnes

Elgg - Open Source Social Networking and Social Publishing Platform. - 2 views

shared by sheryl barnes on 19 Nov 09 - Cached
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    What do we know about Elgg? Looks like a cool open source social network creation tool, like Ning only open source...
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    We know that Friedman is pilotting it this year. It started out as an eportfolio platform and has transitioned into social networking software. I felt it was missing some important components the last time I looked but it had been evolving rapidly. It would make sense to keep in touch with Paul's group to see what their experience of it is like and to compare it to Buddy Press which we're planning to install with Wordpress as a social networking component - if all goes well with that.
sheryl barnes

SNAPP - 0 views

shared by sheryl barnes on 14 Mar 13 - No Cached
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    Social Networks Adapting Pedagogical Practice (SNAPP) tool performs real-time social network analysis and visualization of discussion forum activity within popular commercial and open source Learning Management Systems (LMS)
sheryl barnes

Beyond Disruption: Higher Ed Innovation from Within | The Blue Review - 0 views

  • projects that take the opposite track: they’re innovative, but they tend to rely on open source technologies, and their focus is on individual and collective empowerment of students and communities, rather than commercialization.
  • There’s little need to hire Udacity or Coursera or any other ed tech company to disrupt higher education because faculty and staff representing key nodes in the network are already evolving the theory and practice of teaching, learning, research and outreach in ways that are incredibly productive
  • The best pedagogical change in higher ed is coming from within
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    Very interesting article re: disruption in HE & openness
sheryl barnes

Blackboard Ships Open Standards Support - Ray Henderson - 0 views

  • Common Cartridge 1.0 and Basic LTI support were shipped in our latest service pack for Blackboard Learn, Release 9.1, which includes an export feature for Common Cartridge
sheryl barnes

NERCOMP SIG-Making the Leap to Open Source, Dec 2009 - AT - General Wiki - Confluence - 0 views

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    experimenting with posting my conference notes on the wiki, then bookmarking it in Diigo too...
sheryl barnes

Treating Higher Ed's 'Cost Disease' With Supersize Online Courses - Technology - The Ch... - 0 views

  • Her approach brings together faculty subject experts, learning researchers, and software engineers to build open online courses grounded in the science of how people learn
  • education equivalent of Super Bowl ads: expensively built online course materials, cheaply available to the masses
sheryl barnes

Solutions for Dealing with Copyrighted Materials in an Open Access Course - ProfHacker ... - 0 views

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    Interesting issues raised here & interesting comments...
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