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Khan Academy has 150 million YouTube views, 320,000 subscribers, and major support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—but that doesn’t mean the free online library of educational videos is perfect. It doesn’t even mean the site is especially effective, say two math professors at Grand Valley State University.
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With the rise of MOOCs there has been much speculation about the meaning of ‘open’, particularly with respect to the Higher Education business model. It is clear that ‘open’ can be interpreted in a number of different ways. Via Andreas Link Delete the scoop?
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Royal Roads University (RT @sunnydeveloper: Slide deck / OER & code mentioned in our session available at http://t.co/9vyWjarb #mootca13 @RoyalRoads #moodle #OER)...
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Carolyn Fox discusses open education and open source solutions for academic administrations in 2012 and predictions for 2013. Delete the scoop?
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"Interview with Dave Cormier and Helen Keegan on the use of open educational resources (OER) recorded in October 2012. Interviewer: Alastair Creelman, Linnaeus University. The interview was produced for the Swedish OER-project http://oersverige.se/om-projektet/ supported by .SE https://www.iis.se/english/" Via Jenny Pesina Delete the scoop?
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News broke on Friday (via The Chronicle of Higher Education, reporting on a blurb from the National Association of College Stores’s newsletter) that the open textbook publisher Flat World Knowledge would be ending access to free versions of its textbook as of the new year. Delete the scoop?
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A former digital-media czar and a small-town mayor are working together to launch a new online university that will be free for students. Delete the scoop?
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David Malan landed his first gig at Harvard in 1995: the college freshman. He was studying government, up until his sophomore year, when he took an introductory science course with now Princeton professor Brian Kernighan Delete the scoop?
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Universities are traditionally seen as exclusive institutions for the few, not the many. But that is changing, as a new wave of online courses throws open the doors of academia to all. Led by world-renowned American institutions like MIT and Harvard, this push to democratise learning is being taken up in Australia, too. Delete the scoop?
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By being adaptable and accessible, OERs, have the potential to solve the global education crisis and contribute to sustainable economic growth - if governments are prepared to act... Delete the scoop?
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Key challenges are emerging with the growing use of open educational resources in higher education. Delete the scoop?
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After reflecting on the sessions I participated in, viewing the archives of the sessions I couldn’t participate in, reading blog posts, and skimming Storifys of #ETMOOC Topic #4: The Open Mov... Delete the scoop?
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Whilst I've been quite critical of them, MOOCs are clearly 'happening'. If the learning technologists from 10 years ago could see where we have got to with learning technology (some of them can, but they've got short memories!), they'd probably be quite impressed by the emergence of large-scale open courses - particularly the institutional buy-in they have gained. Where my worries begin is that we lose perspective in the MOOC debate: not just from the anti-MOOC crowd, but from the pro-MOOC crowd. There is a need for us to say "What is this really about?" Via Andreas Link Delete the scoop?
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As we start the new year and survey the open education landscape, it's hard not to conclude that openness has prevailed. The victory may not be absolute, but the trend is all one way now - we'll never go back... Delete the scoop?
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Getting faculty to embrace open education resources takes more than directing them to a good search platform. In this post I suggest a two-pronged strategy to help faculty embrace ‘openness&#... Delete the scoop?
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Denver — Clay Shirky is one of the country’s most prominent Internet thinkers—“a spiritual guide to the wired set,” as The Chronicle Review put it in a 2010 profile of him. In his latest book, Cognitive Surplus, the New York University professor argues that a flowering of creative production will arise as the Internet turns people “from consumers to collaborators.” Delete the scoop?
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You may have heard the buzz about the "Why Open Education Matters" video contest, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Creative Commons, and Open Society Foundations. The contest was meant to raise awareness about the promise of open educational resources (OER) -- free online materials licensed under Creative Commons, which allows educators to reuse, revise, remix and redistribute the content to their heart's content. Via Kim Flintoff Delete the scoop?
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Forty years ago, John Holt wondered whether an educational revolution as profound as open education could survive unless it became part of a wider and deeper movement of social change. Until open source and the concept of an open education began to take hold, John Holt’s vision of an open education seemed to be a pipe dream. Delete the scoop?
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I’ve been thinking about what’s next for OER… With the current set of MOOCs – which aren’t even open – grabbing attention away from the real movement, we need an exciting idea to get behind. Delete the scoop?
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Universities are traditionally seen as exclusive institutions for the few, not the many. But that is changing as a new wave of online courses throws open the doors of academia to all. Led by world renowned American institutions like MIT and Harvard, this push to democratise learning is being taken up in Australia too. Delete the scoop?
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There are many personal stories surfacing of people whose lives have been changed for the better thanks to open education. Delete the scoop?
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On Tuesday, Vice President Biden, U.S.Education Department Secretary Arne Duncan, and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray hosted a roundtable with college presidents who pledged to provide clear, useful information to all... Delete the scoop?
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