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Making Sense of MOOCs: Musings in a Maze of Myth, Paradox and Possibility (PDF)

Open Library is an open project: the software is open, the data are open, the documentation is open, and we welcome your contribution. 

Open education: Common(s), commonism  and the new common wealth

"Let's stop looking to technology for everything or nothing. Instead, let's think about what technology could look like, and figure out how to deploy it to make the world better for students and to use our way-undervalued teachers' time and energy more wisely."

"Hack/ prank/ fail: what YouTube can tell us about students, schools and computers"

2012 Alberta-British Columbia Managing Online Learning Survey Report (PDF)

This paper locates the notion of technological revolutions in the Neo-Schumpeterian effort to  understand innovation and to identify the regularities, continuities and discontinuities in the process of  innovation. It looks at the micro- and meso-foundations of the patterns observed in the evolution of  technical change and the interrelations with the context that shape the rhythm and direction of innovation.  On this basis, it defines technological revolutions, examines their structure and the role that they play in  rejuvenating the whole economy through the application of the accompanying techno-economic paradigm.  This over-arching meta-paradigm or shared best practice 'common sense' is in turn defined and analysed  in its components and its impact, including the influence it exercises on institutional and social change. 

A learning and research environment based on Yochai Benkler's book, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom

"In this model, the online content is generally " wrapped" with some face-to-face class time by a local instructor, who can facilitate discussion, answer questions, ensure that students are making progress, and possibly augment the course with additional content and/or assessments."

More than a decade of debate over Canadian copyright reform came to a conclusion last week as Bill C-11, the fourth try at reform since 2005, formally took effect. While several elements of the bill still await further regulations, the biggest overhaul of Canadian copyright law in years is now largely complete.

Learning is a central focus of the Athabasca University e-Lab.  Discover many digital research tools and online resources in the e-Lab.

Easily create ebooks for any device, webbooks for accessibility and promotion, and PDFs for printbooks and print-on-demand. Use our distribution services to get your books into Kindle, Apple iBooks, Nook and other retailers - or do it yourself. PressBooks is built on WordPress, so it's as easy as blogging.

Realtime Collaboration for WordPress

iPeer is an open source web application application that allows instructors to develop and deliver ​rubric-based peer evaluations, to review and release student comments, to build progress report forms online, and to analyze evaluation results. iPeer features a built-in user management system, data import/export, and an easy-to-use installer.

Contact North ǀ Contact Nord, Ontario's Distance Education and Training Network, works in partnership with Ontario's 24 public colleges, 20 public universities and over 250 public essential skills and training providers to increase and improve online and distance learning opportunities for Ontarians.

"A few year ago, I was a bit curious about how well learners can evaluate each other. I designed a small experiment to find out. It goes like this: "

"Interactivity isnot easy--indeed, it shouldn't be easy--but that it is what the university should both practice and teach"

DERN is a network for, leaders, researchers and educators interested in the use of digital technologies for learning. Users of DERN may have an interest in ICT, media, pedagogy, emerging technologies and related areas and are probably well briefed in the area of elearning research, as well as scholars seeking details about what research has been done, possibly for their own research purposes.

Edited by Terry Anderson and Fathi Elloumi, is concerned with assisting providers of online education with useful tools to carry out the teaching and learning transactions online.