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A module designed for the Responsive Open Learning Environment's (ROLE) project looking at the role of self regulated learning... 
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It’s Open Education Week this week, apparently (whatever that means), although as Amber writes in her piece openedspace: “most of the definitions [of open education] are really about op... Via Kim Flintoff
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In the above post, Stephen Downes sets out very clearly his views on what MOOCs are and what they do, mainly in response to an earlier post by Clark Quinn, in which Clark argued that there should be some way to integrate both cognitive and social learning theory within the design of MOOCs. Via Mark Smithers
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Early results of Udemy's Faculty Project have been pretty successful, with more than 50,000 students signing up for the program. Via Mark Smithers
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The Open Education Resource (OER) Foundation is to host a strategic international meeting in Dunedin on 23 February, to commence planning for the provision of free learning to all students worldwide.
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Professor James C Taylor AM - University of Southern Queensland, Australia "The OER university: Enabling universal access to higher education" eLearning Knowledge Sharing webinar - BDRA, University of Leicester.
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15 February 2012The word “open” has grown educational wings over the past decade. Writes Roland Sussex for the Conversation
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Washington – Open-education efforts like the free lecture materials at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and producing free online textbooks are relatively new, and advocates face questions about how to pay for such projects and how to maintain their quality.
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How can the ideas of the open source movement help foster learning? What are the most effective ways to bring learning to everyone? How does openness help the spread of knowledge? Part exhibition catalog, part manifesto, this is a concise, fun-to-read introduction to what Mozilla is doing to support learners everywhere. Via Mark Smithers
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The Faculty Project brings academia's most outstanding professors to the computers, tablets, and smartphones of people all over the world.
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RT @profology: Good list: RT @ileducprof: 10 Open Education Resources You May Not Know About (But Should) http://t.co/dbwbYnmD #highered #edtech #faculty...
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Forget free content repositories; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology wants to deliver “interactive” elite education to the masses, complete with credentials certifying “mastery” of MIT-grade coursework.
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"The Prisoner’s Dilemma; Colonel Blotto; the Diner’s Dilemma; the Pirate Game — these are the astoundingly cool and frequently counterintuitive puzzles that have perplexed mankind’s silly little irrational and emotionally beholden brains since their conception, or at least since we saw A Beautiful Mind in 2001. To stick with the movie theme, there’s a piece of us that wants to be Rain Man or Good Will — or (be still my beating heart!) Richard Feynman. Why has there never been a biopic on Feynman, perhaps starring Woody Allen? Oh, well, I guess that’s beside the point. The point is, now you can join these luminaries of rationality. Or at least you can understand why the strongest pirate need only give up two pieces of gold from a 100-dubloon chest in order to avoid being chucked overboard by his four perfectly rational underlings (see Pirate Game above)." Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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RT @opensourceway: The results of @BYU 's #openaccess survey of faculty | http://t.co/DJ0Ax4DW... Via Mark Smithers, Kim Flintoff
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The main instructor who developed the first MITx course, Professor Anant Agarwal, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has been appointed by the Provost to set up a new unit: ‘an Open Learning Enterprise (working title) at MIT, which is charged with developing a robust, open-source technology platform for interactive, pedagogically effective online learning, and working with MIT faculty to create content to be hosted on the platform. Dr. Agarwal’s initial goals are the rapid organization of the enterprise, the rapid development of a technology platform for online courses and the development of high-quality MITx subjects. MIT will make the open-learning software available free of cost, so that others… can leverage the same software for their online education offerings. MITx will be coupled with an Institute-wide research initiative into online learning that will study how students, whether on campus or part of a virtual community, learn most effectively.’
Via Mark Smithers
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MIT opens registration today for the first of its online courses offered as part of its new MITx initiative. The university announced MITx late last year as the next step not just in informal online learning but in alternative certification. Registration for MITx is free and open to anyone, and for this first "prototype" class, there is no additional charge to receive the certification upon successful completion of the class. Via Mark Smithers
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Interest in open online courses – and startups see this as an opportunity to automate and scale education. In a recent interview by Tamar Lewin for NYTimes, I stated that while you could call Udacity, Coursera, and Codeacademy examples of MOOCs (Massive open online courses), they are largely instantiations of existing educational practices. Their primary innovation is scaling. (See Jim Groom’s comments on this post…or Alan Levine’s thoughts on scaling in moocs). In the presentation embedded below, I evaluate how teaching, social, and cognitive presence in open courses that I’ve been involved with differ from those being offered by startups. In the process, I assault the spirits of both Alan and Jim in linking work that Stephen, Dave, and I have done with open courses and what they are doing with DS106. Via Mark Smithers
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The sub-activities of the open design and development initiative of the OERu logic model associated with the OERu 2012 prototype are listed on this node page. The purpose of this node is to support the planning, design and development of the 2012 prototype courses.
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We are in the midst of a revolution in education. For the first time in human history we have the tools to enable everyone to attain all the education they desire. And best of all this education is available at almost no cost.
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Online social networks as formal learning environments: Learner experiences and activities... Via Mark Smithers
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Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge book download John Seely Brown, M. S.
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