Glen Moriarty has a new post on certifying learning with open educational resources. From the post:
Certifications provide one such avenue. Their value is inherently tied to the individuals or organization doing the certification. These people or institutions are vouching for the students they are vetting through the process of endorsing their learning.
Thanks to Stephen Downes for the link.
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Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open accreditation, open content, Open Education
Stacey Alexander has posted slides and accompanying audio for a presentation on openness in higher education.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, open accreditation, open content, Open Education, openness, policy
Taylor Walsh has written an article on OCW at elite institutions. From the post:
There are, indeed, signs of change afoot in the elite tier, with first movers coming from the cash-strapped public university sector.
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Brian Frank has a new post on the “tyranny of credentials.” From the post:
By complaining about the “tyranny of credentials” I was aiming at the stranglehold that that whole way of thinking has on the theory and practice of learning. I mean, there are some things that are best learned in classrooms, some things that are best learned through apprenticeships, etc, and then there are things we can only learn by taking responsibility for mastering them ourselves.
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Stian Haklev has a new post on how P2PU fits into open education. From the post:
But P2PU isn’t Wikiversity, it isn’t the Massive Open Online Courses that Siemens, Downes, and Cormier (amongst others) have been running, it isn’t the for pay video-based courses at EduFire, … It fills its own niche. One which I think is very valuable.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open accreditation, open content, Open Education, open-teaching, openness
Pippa Buchanan has a new post requesting course organizers for P2PU’s School of Webcraft. From the post:
This coming September we’ll be launching our first cycle of six week courses including Introduction to HTML5 and Building Social with the Open Web. We still have space for a few more courses, so whether you can teach a class for novice web developers, or run a workshop for web developers managing thousands of user accounts, we’d love to have you involved.
Thanks to John Robertson for the link.
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Jim Groom has a new post reacting to recent discussion surrounding the term “Edupunk.” From the post:
Part of the beauty of a term or idea like EDUPUNK is that it’s protean, and you can’t control its meaning and interpretation—and I think that’s important and necessary. At the same time, I think a personal intervention is in order (at least for my own head) because an EDUPUNK that devastates public education in service to the unregulated promise of free markets and capital is possibly the worst vision one can imagine.
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Stian Haklev has a new post wondering how P2PU can help homeschoolers. From the post:
And what would we need to modify/add to be more useful to your needs? I think we could learn a lot from each other, because we have the same belief that education doesn’t have to come pre-packaged in a mass-produced fashion, and the same desire to open the system up to recognizing different pathways students might choose, to reach the same goals.
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Tagged K-12, open accreditation, open content, Open Education, open learning, open-teaching, 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
Shafeen Charania has a new post about moving to an open accreditation service for education. From the post:
As these “alternate” candidates prove their worth in the market (likely at lower starting salaries as well), I think there will be a groundswell at both ends – hiring managers/recruiters becoming more open-minded, and students becoming more savvy.
Thanks to Marinka Voorhout for the link.
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Tagged e-learning, online learning, open accreditation, open content, Open Education, openness
