Philipp Schmidt, Christine Geith, Stian Håklev and Joel Thierstein have published an article on peer-to-peer assessment in the latest issue of IRRODL. From the abstract:
This paper makes the case for a peer-based method of assessment and recognition as a feasible option for accreditation purposes. The peer-based method would leverage online communities and tools, for example digital portfolios, digital trails, and aggregations of individual opinions and ratings into a reliable assessment of quality.
Categories: Open Education
Tagged: e-learning, higher education, online learning, open accreditation, Open Education, open-teaching, openness
Last week OEN reported on an open access conference in Ghana. Recently Akokoraaba Adansi Pipim published a lengthy letter to Ghana’s president outlining benefits to embracing open source software for education. From the letter:
The current brief seeks to bring home a few take-aways from the lessons of the past few decades, based on summation and extrapolation of observations extending at least a century and a half into the past. Two significant forces are explored: IT policy, especially with regard to adoption of free and open source software, and learner-focused education.
Thanks to OLPC on Twitter for the link.
Categories: Open Education
Tagged: e-learning, ICT, Open Education, open source, openness
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Wired Campus has a new article on a recent presentation by Larry Lessig on copyright. Lessig, who founded Creative Commons, argued that academia needs to fight for the ability to share and remix. From the article:
It is time to fight back, he told his audience, adding: “You geeks have to become radical militant activists.”
Categories: Open Education
Tagged: cc, CC licenses, commons, copy right, copyright, creative commons, open content, Open Education, policy, presentation
Leigh Blackall has a new post giving feedback to Peer-2-Peer University with regards to copyright. Blackall suggests that avoid any trappings of copyright and focus on sharing. From the post:
P2PU wants to be a network, made up of individual action and responsibility. As such P2PU should not impose a particular copyright policy on these individuals, instead focusing on the facilitation of the free exchange of learning and educational advance.
Categories: Open Education
Tagged: cc, CC licenses, copy right, copyright, creative commons, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, open-teaching, openness, p2pu
Dave Cormier has a new post capturing notes on an upcoming keynote presentation on the future of OER. Slides are also available. From the post:
If OERs have the potential of being the dictionary of our era. If it will be the common language, the new knowledge base upon which we work, what effect will this have on the traditional stewards of that knowledge. Wither the librarians?
Categories: Open Education
November 7, 2009 · 1 Comment
Judy Baker has a new post indicating a list of open textbooks has been updated to reflect new projects. Full list available here. From the post:
ven if you have already visited the OER Consortium list of open textbooks before, consider revisiting because dozens of open textbooks were newly posted for a variety of disciplines today.
Commentary on the list by Lisa Chamberlin.
Categories: Open Education
Tagged: higher education, K-12, oer, Open Education, open textbook, open textbooks, openness
Jane Park at Creative Commons has a new post announcing a guide for preparing open educational resources for search engines. In particular the guide is directed towards submission in Creative Commons’s search engine, DiscoverEd. From the post:
It [the guide] is a basic guide for those interested in preparing their resources for inclusion into search engines like DiscoverEd that utilize structured data. It is targeted at people or institutions interested in making their digitally published educational resources more discoverable.
Categories: Open Education
Tagged: cc, CC licenses, creative commons, Internet, oer, open content, Open Education
Last week OEN reported on an article at Newsweek about OER. Karen Fasimpaur has a new post criticizing the article for covering free resources that are not open. From the post:
While the article does talk about MIT’s OpenCourseWare and a couple other open projects, it is really about free online courses. Nowhere does the article define OER or talk about what open is and how open is different from free and digital.
Categories: Open Education
Tagged: ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
November 5, 2009 · 1 Comment
Matt Asay at CNET has a new post on the struggles of open source in the past few years. Parallels can be drawn to OER. From the post:
Open source is no longer a question of “why” but rather one of “how.” It’s the way the industry does business, and the way it does development.
Categories: Open Education
Tagged: oer, open content, Open Education, open source
