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School of Webcraft Job Opening
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Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
CSCL Intro
Stian Haklev has a new post introducing CSCL, an open online course. From the post:
We have been planning this course for a very long time, and to see people sign up, begin to blog, engage with the readings (and each other), tweet, comment on the P2PU site etc, is very exciting and rewarding!
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, open course, Open Education, openness
Open Education Video Overview
YouTube user “educationopened” has posted a short one and a half minute video introducing open education. Thanks to yvideotweets for the link.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Open Course Participation
Alan Levine has a new post chiding people for apologizing when sporadically participating in open courses. From the post:
There is no “sorry” in an open course. The “open” means you enter when you want and exit when you want and in between you do what you want. Are we that conditioned to think that we are letting someone down when we put other priorities above doing coursework for which we get no credit?
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Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open accreditation, open course, openness
Social Inclusion Through OER
Gráinne Conole has started a page on Cloudworks to discuss social inclusion through open educational resources.
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Tagged commons, e-learning, higher education, oer, online learning, Open Education, openness
More on OERGlue
Nottingham University have posted a presentation by Joel Duffin on OERGlue.
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Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, oerglue, online learning, open content, open course, Open Education, openness
Reminder: OCWC Conference May 4-6
We received a press release reminding us that the OpenCourseWare Consortium will be held May 4-6 in Boston.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, OCWC, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
OER Hack Day
Kirsty Pitkin has a new post providing an overview of what happened at OER Hack Day. There are several videos posted as well. From the post:
The OER Hack Day event was jointly organised by JISC CETIS and DevCSI. Participants came from a variety of backgrounds and levels of technical expertise, and included academics, learning technologists, repository managers, developers, and librarians from UK institutions such as Harper Adams, Oxford, Nottingham, East Riding College, the Open University, and other organisations such as Creative Commons, the Learning Registry, Open Michigan, and TechDis.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Ways OCW Has “Freed” Education
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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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Are Educators Willing to Share?
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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Tagged e-learning, higher education, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
