Tag Archive for ‘open education’
Open Online K-12 Courses from Saylor Foundation
WASHINGTON, May 15, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Saylor.org, the free education initiative of the Saylor Foundation, announced today the launch of its new K-12 program of open online courses. The academic courses are aligned to the Common Core State Standards and use open educational resources (OER) extensively, making the courses, as well as their contents, widely reusable by students, teachers, and… Read More ›
What to Consider When Publishing #OER
For creating open content as a continually ongoing process of refinement, re-distribution, correction, modification, re-arrangement and reuse, better quality of the open content is the result of these possibilities. It’s important to make reuse easier. This requires authors to consider visibility and circulation of the published open educational resources(OER). In this presentation we highlight the… Read More ›
How to Create OER and Join to Grow The #OER Tree
Plan, research, curate, design, create, publish OER and share it out under an open license, so someone else can discover it, then start with the next step. Maybe it will be improved or expressed in different forms. Creating OER is the 9th lesson of our online PD course : Using Open Educational Resources To Create K-12… Read More ›
School of Open offers free Wikipedia course
Posted by LiAnna Davis on May 10, 2013 Pete Forsyth, an early designer of the Wikipedia Education Program, is now teaching a free online course on Wikipedia and Open Educational Resources, along with Wikipedian and education researcher Sara Frank Bristow. The six-week course, “Writing Wikipedia Articles,” recently concluded its first run, and will be offered again starting 14 May… Read More ›
A Guide to Free and Open Source Education (#OER)
by Carolyn Fox, from OpenSource.com Nearly every week, if not every day, there are more and more open source and open educational resources available and accessible to us. It’s impossible to ignore. It also seems impossible to keep pace with the sheer volume. Despite this, I will attempt here to give a comprehensive listing of many… Read More ›
Evaluating #OER and Quality Control for #OER as Textbooks
The OER report published in February 2007 by Atkins, Brown and Hammond (2007) at the request of the Hewlett Foundation shows the evolution of OER movement. By proposing Open Participatory Learning Infrastructure (OPLI), it envisions to nurture a culture of learning in which both intellectual capital (content) and human capital (talent) spiral upward, together. Continuous Improvement of OER… Read More ›
Planning Framework for #OER Implementation
from Achieve.org This document is intended as a guide for those state teams planning to implement Open Educational Resources (OER). The exercises included within it were completed by seven states as part of the OER Institute in November 2012. Based on the experiences of those states, the exercises have been adapted slightly and are included… Read More ›
How Much Do You Know about Open License? (#OER)
“Teaching, learning and research materials in any medium, digital or otherwise, that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions. Open licensing is built within the existing framework of intellectual property rights as defined by relevant international conventions and respects the authorship of the… Read More ›
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) (#OER)
by Sean Connor, published on Saylor.org Perhaps you’ve heard of WorldCat, which is, in brief, “the world’s largest network of library content and services” — but to folks like you and me, that means that we can search across many different library collections for a particular holding. It’s fun, it’s convenient, and it helped Yours Truly solve an Advanced… Read More ›
New Pathways to Learning – #OER and Non-formal Education
from Dr. Don Olcott, Jr don.olcott@hct.ac.ae Manager of Strategic Planning and Engagement at the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) system office in the United Arab Emirates Abstract The growth of non-formal education is expanding teaching and learning pathways for the delivery of global education. This growth, in concert with the expanded use of Open Educational Resources (OERs), is… Read More ›
Free #OER Trend Report with #MOOC and Innovative Learning Foci
from Ignatia/Inge de Waard (licensed under CC BY-NC-SA) The renowned SURF group that are situated in the Netherlands just published a wonderful, insightful and all over great read on the trend of Open Educational Resources (OER). The English report can be found and downloaded here and consists of 112 pages of great up to date OER information. This report… Read More ›
Running on Empty? 25 Tricks to Jumpstart Routine Lessons
Over the years, I’ve noticed how one question can change the dynamics of any situation. Everything might be moving along quite nicely at the dinner table, everyone’s happy and laughing but one question can send those same smiling faces into a frenzy of shouts and upset. This also holds true in a classroom. Students may be working… Read More ›
Open The School of Open
The School of Open (http://schoolofopen.org/) is launching during Open Education Week, March 11-15. This means that all facilitated courses will open for sign-up that week, and all stand-alone courses will be ready to take then or anytime thereafter. A community of volunteers from P2PU, Creative Commons, Open.Michigan, and Wikimedia will offer free online courses on copyright,… Read More ›
MapStory – Wikipedia Way of Telling Stories on Maps and Timelines
We learn MapStory from Saylor Journals OER Newsletter – “A creative platform that allows you to start your own story or build on another one, with use of maps and time lines as a foundation. Through Creative Commons, this platform is completely free, and it allows you to “share what you know about the world… Read More ›
Open Educational Resources - primer videos
Reblogged from E-Learning Development Team: A few nice videos created for the ongoing OLDS MOOC outlining what OER’s are and some of the issues to do with licencing. OER overview https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=H5JT7Tc9qDo What are OER and Open Licensing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=z2rilbg0xE8 Finding and using OER https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Z6QsK-fdTO8#! Want more? The JISC OER toolkit or OU’s SCORE (Support Centre for Open… Read More ›
OER, Internet and The Power of Pull
The keynote from Joe Ito, MIT Media Lab, on Hewlett OER Grantees Meeting 2012 highlighted some inspiring ideas of how internet has changed the ways we work and learn together. From David Weinberger : Small pieces loosely joined – decentralizing power From David Clark : Rough consensus running code – keeping doing and iterations since the cost… Read More ›
Research Roundup about MOOCs and Online Learning
The rising of MOOCs brings the interest of scrutinizing the effectiveness of online learning. Definitely it’s not a new-born baby, even MIT’s OpenCourseWare is more than 10 years old. But the Web2.0 technologies and new concepts have brought something different and evolving. Journalist’s Resource has put together a roundup on those significant research papers in… Read More ›
The Story of OER and Why It Matters
The Story of Open Educational Resources(OERs) to share with you, it’s not intended to be an exhausted list of OER development in the past decade. The copy in Google Document is public, you are welcome to add anything that’s important or useful. Why is OER important ? The copy in Google Document is public as… Read More ›
OpenEd Free Video Library for Open Web Learning
OpenEd is an effort to collect free educational videos aligned to Common Core State Standards for all teachers and students with internet connection and computers. It’s now accepting user applications into beta release, and of course user feedback. This is their letter for an introduction: OpenEd helps you find the best videos and other content… Read More ›
When Game-Based Learning Meets Open Education Resources
from OER Commons, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License In game play, the progress a player makes is through learning. This happens as students grasp and understand embedded knowledge and skills required to successfully navigate a new system. The challenge and the progress of understanding a new concept through gaming is what makes a… Read More ›
8 Exemplary Open Textbooks and The Meaning Beyond Bringing Cost Down
For decades, college students have been exploited by publishers of introductory textbooks. But thing are changing, now there are several organizations bringing open textbooks to students. Saylor.org, OpenStax College, Free High School Science Textbooks , BioQUEST, The Math Open Reference, Utah Open Textbook Project, Open Math, and Open Source Physics are only to name a few. More open textbooks information can be found in this… Read More ›
Boundless releases its content under Creative Commons
by Jane Park, first posted on Creative Commons Boundless, the company that builds on existing open educational resources to provide free alternatives to traditionally costly college textbooks, has released 18 open textbooks under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA), the same license used by Wikipedia. Schools, students and the general public are free to share and remix these textbooks… Read More ›
OERs in US, Canada and Netherlands
Last week, U.S. News and World Report published an article about the rise of openly-licensed educational materials. Simon Owens’ article outlined the important milestones of open education resources(OERs), or open textbooks movements. The nonprofit organization Creative Commons that created and updates the licenses released its first versions in December 2002. Founded by Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig… Read More ›
Open Source Options For Education from OSS-Watch
by Mark Johnson, OSS-Watch , first published here : Open Source Options For Education This document presents options for open source software for use in the education sector. Some of these may have uses outside of education, but they are presented here in the context of their specific benefits to educational establishments, or their use in the… Read More ›
30 Myths About eLearning That Need To Die In 2013
For as long as eLearning has been around, it has been haunted by the voices of those who aim to criticize its authenticity, viability, and quality. But is it true? Do students of traditional institutions boast more success than those who’ve chosen distance learning? It’s time for some of these myths to die. 1. The technology… Read More ›
Our Favorite Open Educational Resources of 2012
Reblogged from Curriki's Blog: By Janet Pinto, Chief Academic Officer, Curriki Here are a few of our favorite resources from 2012. If you look these over, I’m sure you’ll find at least a couple of them to be interesting and useful! Click on each title to go to that resource at Curriki. STEMware Zombie Plague … Read More ›
15 Reusable Technology Solutions for OER
15 reusable technology solutions for OER from JISC Digital Infrastructure Team is a summary for the completion of the OER Rapid Innovation Strand. This is an introduction to the reusable technology solutions developed by the rapid innovation projects of the UK OER Programme during 2012. Bidders were asked to address problems identified through the Programme, and 15… Read More ›
Open Content as Teacher Professional Development
Bill Fitzgerald at FunnyMonkey is a big advocator of open source software and open contents, he often provides insights about the practices in going open for education. His recent post about open content revisiting the definitions and considerations to move it forward meaningfully. Worth a read. In general terms, when we talk about open content, this… Read More ›
From 2012 The Tipping Point to EPIC 2020
2012 The Tipping Point is a short presentation in a TED like format that was given by Bill Sams in June 2012 to the Ohio Tech Angel Fund members. It is a concise overview of what has already happened in the education world. The EPIC 2020 web site contains links and additional information on every thing discussed… Read More ›
Top 30 Resource Pages and Posts in 2012
Thanks to all readers who have visited our site in this year, it’s a taking off year for us. This site is just a node to connect with contents, people and community. It’s also a starting point for our next step — creating value through connections and creations. Here we list the top resource pages… Read More ›
OER in the Mobile Era
Mobile learning is no doubt one of the converging trend in Ed-Tech for the next several years. Open Educational Resources (OERs) repositories should adapt their features so their contents can be accessed from mobile devices. elearningeuropa.info has published a report : OER in the Mobile Era: Content Repositories’ Features for Mobile Devices and Future Trends This paper… Read More ›
Crowdsourcing Homework Assignment Review
(from MIT News) In an effort to bring a more human dimension to the online-education experience, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Associate Professor Rob Miller has developed a new computer system that will help provide students with feedback on their homework assignments and create more interaction between students, teachers and alumni. Crowdsourcing homework assignment… Read More ›
Free and Open Versions of Flat World Knowledge Texts
by Sean Connor, published on Saylor.org : Saylor.org now hosts free and open versions of Flat World Knowledge texts We are very pleased to announce that all Flat World Knowledge textbooks published under an open license are permanently and freely available from Saylor.org — free to read, free to download, free to share and remix under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA… Read More ›
Reuse is Key to Positive MOOC and OER Impact
by Timothy Vollmer, first published on CreativeCommons.org : Keeping MOOCs Open (licensed under CC BY) MOOCs — or Massive Open Online Courses — have been getting a lot of attention lately. Just in the last year or so, there’s been immense interest in the potential for large scale online learning, with significant investments being made in companies (Coursera, Udacity, Udemy), similar non-profit initiatives (edX) and learning… Read More ›
A Guide to Using Open Educational Resources in Marketing Education
A resource was created by Dr Philippa Hunter-Jones at the University of Liverpool as an outcome of research funded in part by an Academy of Marketing Teaching Research and Development Grant. Hunter-Jones, P. (2012). A Guide to Using Open Educational Resources (OERs) in Marketing Education: What are they? How do I develop them? And why… Read More ›
Learning Design for a 21st Century Curriculum (MOOC)
from Open Learning Design Studio Welcome to the Open Learning Design Studio’s MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) “Learning Design for a 21st Century Curriculum”. The course will run from 10th January to 13th March 2013. This free, open and online course (MOOC) has been designed with further and higher education professionals in mind – lecturers,… Read More ›
Facilitating Collaborative Learning: 20 Things You Need to Know From the Pros
There is an age old adage that says “two heads are better than one”. Consider collaboration in recent history: Watson and Crick or Page and Brin (Founders of Google). But did you know it was a collaborative Computer Club about basic programming at a middle school that brought together two minds that would change the future of… Read More ›
CK-12 Is Unlocking Cheaper, Better Learning
CK-12 is a leader of open educational resource(OER) provider for k-12 education. Beginning this month, CK-12 foundation launched the new, multi-modality platform, available for the majority of the expanding STEM concepts. Now CK-12 will surprise you with the quality, flexibility and depth that the open educational resources can offer. Some of the features of Multi-Modality… Read More ›
How to Be a Leader in MOOC Space?
Hans de Zwart (bio), Senior Innovation Adviser for Global HR Technologies at Shell, put together some resources about MOOCs. Well worth a look. Curtis Bonk led a session about MOOCs at Learning 2012. His slides are available at TrainingShare, Curtis’ presentation consisted of four parts. (Curtis has created a set of Creative Commons licensed videos about how to teach online.) Part I. Past… Read More ›
Open Online Education Platform for Economics from MRUniversity
MRUniversity is an online education platform for economics that is completely free and open to students. The platform was created by Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok, George Mason University economics professors. The name came from their blog, MarginalRevolution. This platform joins the arrays of other online learning platforms that offer free and open courses to the masses, including Coursera, Udacity, and edX…. Read More ›
