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To launch the newly formed Open Education Group and as part of Open Education week we are asking you to make a commitment to Open Education. By signing and acting on the commitment below. “I will, whenever possible, release the educational content I produce under an open licence and whenever I am looking for resources for education I will endeavour to seek out content with an open licence.”
What are open textbooks? This quick video explains the basics.
Via Andreas Link
Higher education has experienced phenomenal growth in all parts of Asia over the last two decades — from the Korean peninsula in the east to the western borders of Central Asia. This expansion, coupled with a diversity of delivery and technology options, has meant that more and more young Asians are experiencing tertiary education within their own countries.
Via Tim Seal
5 engaging and fun online games to help students learn about important skills and topics across a variety of classroom subjects.
Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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...
Via Robert Farrow, ChrisPegler
The tenth annual survey, a collaborative effort between the Babson Survey Research Group and the College Board, is the leading barometer of online learning in the United States. Over 6.7 million students were taking at least one online course during the fall 2011 term, an increase of 570,000 students over the previous year.Thirty-two percent of higher education students now take at least one course online.Only 2.6 percent of higher education institutions currently have a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), another 9.4 percent report MOOCs are in the planning stages.Academic leaders remain unconvinced that MOOCs represent a sustainable method for offering online courses, but do believe that they provide an important means for institutions to learn about online pedagogy.Seventy-seven percent of academic leaders rate the learning outcomes in online education as the same or superior to those in face-to-face.Only 30.2 percent of chief academic officers believe that their faculty accept the value and legitimacy of online education - a rate is lower than recorded in 2004.The proportion of chief academic leaders that say that online learning is critical to their long-term strategy is at a new high of 69.1 percent.
Via k3hamilton
In this free RSP webinar, Nick Sheppard (Leeds Met Repository Development Officer) and Laura Skilton (Learning and Teaching Coordinator and Jorum Business Development Manager), will discuss issues on Open Educational Resources (OERs), their collections and the role of the institutional repositories.
Via Andreas Link
Reaching out with OER: the new role of public-facing open scholar.
Via Susan Bainbridge
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Open Praxis is a peer-reviewed open access scholarly journal focusing on research and innovation in open, distance and flexible education
Via Mohsen Saadatmand
OERPUB will be releasing an editor tailored to authoring open textbooks and most importantly, helping projects all over the world incorporate the editor into their own workflow and development process.
Via Phil Barker
In an unusual arrangement with a commercial company, the universities hope that those who pass the free courses will pay tuition to complete a degree program.
Via Martin Weller
Please join CCCOER on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 10:00 am (Pacific time) for a webinar on finding, developing, and adopting OER for workforce training and job search skills at community colleges. This webi...
Via SCoPE
Open Praxis is a peer-reviewed open access scholarly journal focusing on research and innovation in open, distance and flexible education
Via Andreas Link, ChrisPegler
I just finished teaching a Massive Online Open Class (MOOC) titled “Computational Investing, Part I” via coursera.org. 53,000 people “enrolled,” which is to say they clicked...
Via markusmind
As governments continue to go into the open market to procure digital learning materials, to what extent do they need to, and should they, care about the different sorts of intellectual property rights associated with that content?
Via Andreas Link
While massive open online courses, or MOOCs, are still in their early days, the race has begun to integrate them into traditional colleges — by making them eligible for transfer credits, and by putting them to use in introductory and remedial courses. Students who want to take the free classes for credit would have to pay a fee to take an identity-verified, proctored exam. If the faculty team deems the course worthy of academic credit, students who do well could pay for a transcript to submit to the college of their choice. Colleges are not required to accept those credits, but similar transcripts are already accepted by 2,000 United States colleges and universities for training courses offered by the military or by employers.
Via Peter John Baskerville, Anne-Christin Tannhäuser
Why most of what currently excites the ed-tech world is hot air: MOOCs, Learning Analytics and Open Education Resources, amongst other fads. I already know what my new year’s resolution will be. As...
Via Rose Heaney, ChrisPegler
This book is the fruit of two years of research by 8 European partners, and provides the reader with the foundation for the development of envisaged framework, organised into the four topics: assessment methods; requirements and standards of resources; credentialisation, certification and recognition and inter-institutional collaboration. The third chapter is devoted to different scenarios of open learning in order to obtain in-depth understanding of the OER challenges and bring closer a basis for identifying vital differences among them to better address these challenges. The OERTest guidelines and the OERTest Learning passport are presented in the following chapter. Thus this part of the publication essentially brings to the fore transparency and portability concepts. The fifth chapter lays out the extent to which the assessment and certification of learning outcomes achieved through OER is feasible for Higher Education Institutions of different profiles. The results are predicated on a feasibility study undertaken amongst five universities. This publication concludes with the possible impacts of the open learning recognition through the university networks that are dealt with in the last chapter.
Via Anne-Christin Tannhäuser
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