Call for Papers - Openness and the Future of Higher Education 1 day ago
There's been a lot of discussion lately about aspects of openness we've discussed less in the past - like accreditation issues. The discussion has been interesting and useful, so John and I have ar .......
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ELearn 2008 Presentation 2 days ago
My invited talk today went pretty well. Here are the slides from the presentation… Openness and the Disaggregated Future of Higher Education View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. .......
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The Instructional Use of Learning Objects in Portuguese 8 days ago
Keynoting a SBIE conference in Fortaleza, Brazil, I met a woman who coordinated the translation of almost half of the Instructional Use of Learning Objects into Portuguese . I love open licenses! .......
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Lying about Personalized Learning 11 days ago
Champions of personalized instruction tend to fall back on the assumption that one-on-one tutoring is the most effective instructional approach but is not scalable (implicit in Bloom's two sigma pr .......
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Scott Channels Clay, Power to the People! 12 days ago
I love the fact that there are so many people out there (you!) who are willing to share. This latest bit of love is directed at Scott for his absolutely brilliant (and exquisitely well-timed, for m .......
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FHSST Release 0 12 days ago
If only all first releases were as good as these… Mark Horner's Free High School Science Texts has released version 0 of its materials. Wow! I think I know what the Open High School will be .......
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Twitter Detective 14 days ago
Chris Snyder at Wired exercised his detective skills on Bijan Sabet's recent tweet to find out who Spark Capital (one of the VCs that funded Twitter) has been talking to recently: i had a mtg .......
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GFDL and Wikipedia Relicensing 18 days ago
Version 1.3 of the GFDL was released today. Section 11 contains directions for Relicensing, giving "Massive Multiauthor Collaboration Sites" (why can't Richard just call them wikis like everyone e .......
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Quality and Online Learning Tue,
28 Oct 2008
Just a quick link to a collection of "standards" for determining whether your online courses are of sufficient quality or not. I wonder how my open courses would rate… *Quality Matters * .......
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It doesn?t matter who gets the credit Mon,
27 Oct 2008
Something Scott wrote today reminded me today of one of my favorite quotes: ?There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn't matter who gets the credit.? Versions of this quote a .......
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Free College Education, Scale, and Analogies Fri,
24 Oct 2008
Here's something you probably never thought you'd see: a list of 100 colleges and universities where you can earn your degree without paying any tuition . Most of the programs on the list look legi .......
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The Open High School of Utah is now accepting enrollment applications! Thu,
23 Oct 2008
The Open High School of Utah , the first high school to commit to using 100% open educational resources across its entire curriculum, has opened its enrollment application process and received its .......
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And that?s why students rock? Fri,
17 Oct 2008
And that's why students rock is the title of a fabulous new post from Philipp describing the Rip Mix Learners project at UWC , which is supporting a very grassroots approach to open educational r .......
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How about a Utah bill? Fri,
17 Oct 2008
The California bill I covered a few weeks ago, authorizing the establishment of "a pilot program to provide faculty and staff from community college districts around the state with the informatio .......
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The Open Movement and Libraries Thu,
09 Oct 2008
The Open Movement and Libraries is a resource-rich course covering a wide range of open topics being offered this fall by Ellyssa Kroski. The course plan linked above is licensed CC By-SA. Links: .......
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Scary Sarah Tue,
07 Oct 2008
I've been saying for months now that one of two things will happen during the month of October. Either: 1. John McCain will stand next to President Bush as the announcement is made that the US .......
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Text of the California OER Bill Tue,
07 Oct 2008
The full text of the California bill is available online here . Or, for your reading convenience, you can view it below. BILL NUMBER: AB 2261 CHAPTERED BILL TEXT CHAPTER 671 FILED WITH SE .......
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California OER bill is now LAW, baby! Mon,
06 Oct 2008
As Jane reports on the Creative Commons blog, California's OER pilot program has been signed into law : Last week, a bill enabling the California Community Colleges to integrate open educational .......
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If Facebook Worked Like Blackboard Fri,
03 Oct 2008
A question Shawn asked in writing about social objects last week made me wonder… What if Facebook worked like Blackboard (or pretty much any other LMS)? Imagine if every fifteen weeks Fa .......
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OpenCourseWars Deleted Scenes Thu,
02 Oct 2008
You know those "deleted scenes" offered on DVDs? Well, I've pulled together a collection of deleted scenes for my chapter 2005 - 2012: The OpenCourseWars in the new book Opening Up Education fro .......
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