Greg DeKoenigsberg has a new post discussing what SCORM might mean for OER supported by the U.S. federal government. From the post:
The choice of license requirement has enormous implications, which will doubtless by examined and re-examined over the coming months. The excitement in the open education world about the licensing requirement has, however, been somewhat tempered by the imposition of SCORM as a technical requirement.
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“opensourceway” has posted a short video by David Wiley about open textbooks. Note: Wiley is Chief Officer of Openness for the open textbook company Flat World Knowledge.
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David Wiley has a new post on open education, open access and its relation to capitalism and socialism. From the post:
You bought and paid for a computer game, but you never got to play it. You bought and paid for a research article, but you never got to read it. This violates the fundamental idea of a market – that if you buy one, you should get one.
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“Dr. Chucks Blog” has a new post on the difficulty of using SCORM and advancing open educational resources. From the post:
The mistake is to pick only one format, and not allow alternate formats, and in particular pick a format that has never demonstrated it handles the edit/remix use case.
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Leigh Blackall has a new post discussing marketing in online courses, including open courses such as Jim Groom’s ds106. From the post:
Jim markets himself and his teaching with a self mocking invitation to engage, a sophisticated handling of media and message based on cinema industry symbolism, and drawing on a loyal “fan base” who share in the vision and help with the marketing because its fun.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, mooc, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Helen Beetham has a new post giving thoughts on various issues facing open educational resources. From the post:
How students are engaging with OERs may be a different issue from how staff are: embedding into the student experience of learning is not the same set of strategies to embedding into the curriculum.
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Phil Barker has a new post on finding open educational resources.
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Blogmyway links to a video of MIT staff and faculty discussing the future of OpenCourseWare.
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The TALL Blog has a new post publishing their mindmap outlining the issues surrounding OER reuse. The mindmap can be found in full on Mindmeister. From the post:
We started our investigation into reuse of OER by reviewing both the relevant research literature and a less formal, but equally important debate, in the blogosphere.
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Anita Hamilton has written an article in Newsweek regarding the open textbook project in Washington state. From the post:
The true measure of Washington State’s initiative will be how willing other teachers are to adopt the new materials created by their colleagues and whether more students pass the classes in which they are being used. The first 42 courses, which are being tested and tweaked through June, will be available to Washington State’s entire community and technical college network in the fall.
Thanks to Open Course Library for the link.
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