Over 4 million K-12 students took at least one online course in 2010, according to Ambient Insight, and this space is growing now by a five-year compound annual growth rate of 43 percent—much faster than the growth of charter schooling or other K-12 education reforms, for example. And the majority of this growth is occurring in different types of “blended learning.”
Colleges and universities are offering courses on open-source courseware. Now if they will just open open-source courses on open-source courseware, we could go on forever.
The WonderWheel is a great search feature that sorts and leads to phrases and results that ensure you are getting what you are searching for. It is unique, visual, and useful results. As of July 3rd, however, Google Spokesman announced this feature is not available online due to redesign of google.
"Welcome to the North Carolina Learning Object Repository. The NCLOR is an online library of instructional resources for North Carolina's K-20 educators."
"Designed by educators for educators, Sakai is an enterprise teaching,
learning and academic collaboration platform that best meets the needs
of today's learners, instructors and researchers."
"A high quality education doesn't have to come at a high cost. In fact, it's possible to take classes from big names like Yale, MIT, and Tufts without ever submitting an application or paying a cent in tuition. We've compiled 200 online classes from these and other respected institutions, and you can take all of them with no strings attached."
"The OpenLearn website gives free access to Open University course materials. This is the LearningSpace, where you'll find hundreds of free study units, each with a discussion forum. Study independently at your own pace or join a group and use the free learning tools to work with others."
This article discusses enhacing peer communication inside and outside of the classroom as well as the transformation of instruction using Web 2.0 tools.
Article discusses how the OER movement is revolutionizing education. The article equates OER to a "global starfish", quicly reginerating when there is a piece of missing information.