Stephen Downes has posted links to videos by Dave Cormier about Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).
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Videos on MOOCs
Posted in Open Education
Tagged e-learning, mooc, online learning, open content, open learning, open-teaching, openness
Digital Storytelling Open Course
Jim Groom will begin a course on digital storytelling in January. Anyone is welcome to participate, the only requirement is that they register their blog with the open course site.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged commons, ds106, higher education, open learning, open-teaching, openness
Open Educational Practices With OPAL Project
Steven Verjans has a new post discussing a recent meeting of the OPAL project that addressed “open educational practices.” From the post:
I felt that there was a consensus amongst the participants that OEP is broader than just practices involving OER, and that it relates to ‘openness of teaching practice, learning envronment and educational resources’
Posted in Open Education
Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, open learning, open-teaching, openness
LeMill Hits 3.0
Teemu Leinonen is announcing a new version of the OER repository/wiki LeMill. From the post:
I am, however, pretty convinced that the interaction and usability design of LeMill is better than in any other OER repository today.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged commons, congrats, e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, open learning, openness
Third Installment of Nixty Interview
Mary Ann Bitter has posted the third part of an interview with Glen Moriarty about open learning site Nixty. From the interview:
The first issue that comes up is the need for an easy way for people to publish, interact with, and modify OER.
Thanks to Martin Bauer for the link. It is unknown just how many pieces this interview with be cut into.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged e-learning, milkitdry, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, open learning, open-teaching, openness
Managing Open Courses Talk
George Siemens has posted slide from a talk about managing open courses.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, open courses, Open Education, open learning, openness
Open Education and Market Forces
Stephen Downes has a new post on his personal blog on open education and market forces. From the post:
Most societies have decided that the management of education is too important to be left to private enterprise, that there would be too many poison pills to swallow, and that society would be irreparably damaged as a result.
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Tagged commons, e-learning, higher education, K-12, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, open learning
Wales Wins Gottlieb Duttweiler Award
Dean Wilson has a new post noting that Jimmy Wales, one of the founders of Wikipedia, has won the Gottlieb Duttweiler Award. The award has a cash prize equivalent of $104,000.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged ocw, oer, open content, open learning, openness, Wikipedia
Complex Learning Environments
George Siemens has posted a presentation on complex learning environments as part of an ongoing open course.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, copy right, copyright, creative commons, Open Education, open learning, openness
Open Learning Colliding with Traditional Learning
John Morgan has a new post about open learning models and asserts that they are on the way to colliding with traditional models. From the post:
Open learning and new technology are about to smash the structure of the modern university – and higher education is too distracted by its funding problems to notice.
Thanks to Hot in Education for the link.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged e-learning, higher education, online learning, open learning, openness
