Michigan State University announces the launch of its Latin America Learning – a project of the Center for Caribbean and Latin American Studies.
This collection provides rich, interactive open educational resources (OER) focused on Latin America and the challenges and issues facing it. These materials are available in a variety of formats and openly licensed to suit the needs of educators and learners. Learn more.
Steve Carson has a new post announcing New Jersey Institute of Technology OpenCourseWare site. From the post:
… [NJIT OCW] contains 18 video courses and should hit 36 very soon, making it one of the larger collections of video courses in the Consortium.
Timothy Vollmer has a new post interviewing Karen Fasimpaur. Fasimpaur has been active in handheld learning and K-12 open education. From the interview:
The most important thing about OER is not that it saves money in the short term, but that it is beneficial to learning by allowing more customization and differentiation. Ultimately, that will also save money by allowing schools to spend funds on the content and services that best serve their students and by improving student engagement and achievement.
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Tagged creative commons, K-12, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Philipp Schmidt has posted a six minute video on P2PU, and calls it the “speakeasy of open education.” Thanks to Nadeem Shabir for the link.
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Tagged e-learning, online learning, open accreditation, open content, Open Education, open-teaching, openness
Tania Cervantes has written on open textbooks being used within community colleges in California. From the article:
“When you choose a book, it’s a big deal. The best book may be $500, but if I can find a good book for $75 then I might just choose that one,” [City College Academic Senate President] Huntsman said. “But I cannot choose a book just because it’s free. I have to examine the content first.”
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Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education
A week ago the Open University announced a contest for Facebook application ideas. From the announcement:
We’d like to do more though, and for that we need your ideas. Simply visit My OU Facebook idea on Platform to tell us what new app you’d like to see us build on Facebook. If you need inspiration, take a look at our Facebook pages.The OU has one of the biggest university fan pages on Facebook with over 20,000 fans and thousands of comments and discussions you can join in.
Rob Pearce has a new post giving his thoughts on OER after posting engineering open educational resources. From the post:
The web – the emphasis has swung away from “how do I do it?” to “What can I do with it”? This will require that things are done properly under the gaze of an ever greater audience.
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Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Lauren Pressley has a new post on the future of course materials. From the post:
I’ve been thinking of working up an open information literacy “textbook,” however, every time I think about it, it becomes more of a collection of modules (some text, some video, some interactive, some quizzing with feedback loops, etc) that an instructor could pull together based on their aims for the course.
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Tagged higher education, library, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education
Susan Topol is announcing the launch of the African Health OER Network. From the post:
The African Health OER Network will enable participants to create, adapt, and share health education resources to augment limited human and other resources in the health sector and advance overall health provision in Africa and beyond.
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Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education
Steve Kolowich has written an article on OCW for USA TODAY. The article focuses on The National Repository for Online Courses (NROC). From the article:
Karen Kaemmerling, a history instructor for Colorado Community Colleges Online who now writes a history blog for NROC, says she thinks the repository’s move toward more sophisticated uses of media and diagnostic tools could put pressure on commercial publishers…
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