Audrey Watters has a new post on the 10 ways OpenCourseWare has “freed” education. From the post:
The decision by the MIT faculty in 2001 to allow anyone to use their course content was a seminal move, one that had a profound effect on democratizing education.
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Sir John Daniel has a new post on whether educators are willing to share. From the post:
The possibilities of opening up universities on new dimensions became clear a decade ago when the Internet burst into the public consciousness in the dot.com frenzy at the turn of the millennium.
Thanks to Stephen Downes for the link.
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Stephen Downes and David Wiley are participating in debate regarding the commercial use of open educational resources.
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“cel4145″ has posted a video discussing the use of open educational resources in the writing center.
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Dan Coleman has a new post noting that Yale has released 10 more open courses.
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Stephen Downes notes that Sugar Labs will be using open educational resources in program related to One Laptop Per Child.
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Sean Coughlan is reporting that the Open University will be getting funding from the U.S. From the post:
The $750,000 (£458,000) pilot project will help students in 10 US colleges – and will be extended if successful.
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Creative Commons has a new post announcing that it has received grant money to assist in the C3T Federal Grant Program. From the post:
Creative Commons is pleased to announce we have been awarded a grant from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to provide support to successful applicants of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (C3T) grant program with our partnering organizations Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative (OLI), CAST, and the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC).
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Calvin Reid has a new post looking at Flat World Knowledge’s Graphic textbooks. From the post:
After introducing the college world to graphic textbooks with his Atlas Black management series, Texas Tech University management professor Jeremy Short returns with two new textbook/comics titles: Tales of Garcon: the Franchise Players and University Life: A College Survival Story, his latest efforts using comics to create textbooks for college level students.
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Neeru Khosla has posted a presentation by Dr. Louise Waters on using OER in urban high schools. From the post:
Great as the potential for each of these open-source products, to me none of them, per se, represents the real power of open-source. The real power is the synergy open source makes possible. We call this process Collaborative Innovation and we believe it represents the true transformative potential of the open source movement.
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