David Wiley, via iterating toward openness, urged all to submit papers for the upcoming special issues on open edcation by IRRODL and IEEE TLT, as a co-editor of the two special issues. The due date for submission of porposals for IRRODL is Jan 15, and the final date for submission of papers for the IEEE TLT is March 1. Excerpt:
[The special issue of IRRODL focuses on] Openness and the Future of Higher Education, with a specific emphasis on things like policy, accreditation, and sustainability, including:
- Critical perspectives on open education
- Issues of affordability and openness
- Openness and accreditation
- Open models for awarding credit or degrees
- Open source, open access, or open education policy in higher education
- Open teaching / massively open online courses (“MOOC”)
- Sustainable models of creating and sharing open educational resources
[The special issue of] the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technology called Open Educational Resources: Learning Objects for All! This special issue has a much more technical focus, including things like:
- automated extraction and generation of metadata that make it easier to find relevant OER’s;
- ranking of OER’s based on relevancy, including contextual clues, time and place, emotion, etc.
- repurposing of recordings of synchronous learning events (lectures, discussions, etc.);
- technical infrastructures for making OER’s available for reuse;
- tools for remixing OER’s;
- standards and specifications for content, search, harvesting, adaptation, etc.
Check out the full IRRODL and IEEE TLT call for papers.
