David Wiley has a new post responding to Steve Carson and Stephen Downes, who suggest OER adoption is sluggish because Wiley is not considering linking as adoption. From the post:
When you define “adoption” as linking, there is literally no need to concern yourself with licensing or openness. When you define adoption as linking, you undermine everything that separates OER from the other resources on the web.
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Tagged commons, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
Gardner Campbell has a new post discussing “unfettered freedom” in learning. From the post:
So I’m thinking today that the kind of education I want to support, and to co-create, is unfettered learning. The trick is to understand when open means unfettered, and when it might be a closed platform that sets us free (and I mean in terms of learning, NOT in terms of copyright.
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Tagged e-learning, Internet, online learning, open source, openness
Stephen Downes has made his second post on the blog Huffington Post. From the post:
My own feeling was that the institutional model was, in the end, unsustainable. And in contrast, I would observe, we have at our hands a model of wild, almost uncontrollable reuse in the wild — the Internet, where the big problem seems to be that the authorities cannot stop reuse.
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Tagged commons, e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
David Kernohan has a new post about open educational resource reuse. From the post:
“Teacher as DJ” says a lot about us too – the DJ is (very much) the “sage on the stage”, setting the mood, introducing themes, calling for responses. The audience have little control over the experience, except to walk out in disgust.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Steve Wheeler has posted slides on “the challenge of user generated content.” Thanks to Nelson Piedra for the link.
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Tagged e-learning, oer, online learning, open content, openness
Glyn Moody has a new post on the value of sometimes limiting releases.
Paul Stacey has a new post comparing foundation funded OER vs.OER funded by taxpayers. From the post:
If OER are going to transition to public funding its worth looking at foundation mandates and goals and thinking about the extent to which they match up with public funder mandates and goals.
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Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness, sustainability
Tony Bates has a new post relating the costs of an online Master’s program. From the post:
I’ve been doing some analysis recently of the costs of a fully online master’s degree program from a major research university (which for the moment will remain nameless, although this has been a very successful program, both academically and financially). I was doing this for our forthcoming book.
Thanks to Stephen Downes for the link.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, online learning, sustainability
Lisa Mansell has a new post discussing the Ripple project. From the post:
…the team responsible for OpenSpires will provide expert support and training to two partner institutions: Harper Adams University College and Oxford Brookes University.
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Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education
Bruce Upbin at Forbes has a new post about the Khan Academy. From the post:
The big open question: What happens if there’s no Khan? And will everything always be free?
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Tagged e-learning, oer, online learning, open content, openness
