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Call for Papers - Openness and the Future of Higher Education
Theres been a lot of discussion lately about aspects of openness weve discussed less in the past - like accreditation issues. The discussion has been interesting and useful, so John and I have arran ....... read more
1 day ago
ELearn 2008 Presentation
My invited talk today went pretty well. Here are the slides from the presentation…
Openness and the Disaggregated Future of Higher Education
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2 days ago
The Instructional Use of Learning Objects in Portuguese
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! ....... read more
8 days ago
Lying about Personalized Learning
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 Blooms two sigma probl ....... read more
11 days ago
Scott Channels Clay, Power to the People!
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 me) ....... read more
12 days ago
FHSST Release 0
If only all first releases were as good as these& Mark Horners Free High School Science Texts has released version 0 of its materials. Wow! I think I know what the Open High School will be using when ....... read more
12 days ago
GFDL and Wikipedia Relicensing
Version 1.3 of the GFDL was released today. Section 11 contains directions for Relicensing, giving Massive Multiauthor Collaboration Sites (why cant Richard just call them wikis like everyone else? ....... read more
18 days ago
Twitter Detective
Chris Snyder at Wired exercised his detective skills on Bijan Sabets recent tweet to find out who Spark Capital (one of the VCs that funded Twitter) has been talking to recently:
i had a mtg with a c ....... read more
14 days ago
Quality and Online Learning
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
Online C ....... read more
Tue,
28 Oct 2008
It doesn?t matter who gets the credit
Something Scott wrote today reminded me today of one of my favorite quotes:
?There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesnt matter who gets the credit.?
Versions of this quote are attribu ....... read more
Mon,
27 Oct 2008
Free College Education, Scale, and Analogies
Heres something you probably never thought youd 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 legitima ....... read more
Fri,
24 Oct 2008
The Open High School of Utah is now accepting enrollment applications!
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 firs ....... read more
Thu,
23 Oct 2008
And that?s why students rock?
And thats 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 resourc ....... read more
Fri,
17 Oct 2008
How about a Utah bill?
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 information, me ....... read more
Fri,
17 Oct 2008
Text of the California OER Bill
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 SECRETARY ....... read more
Tue,
07 Oct 2008
California OER bill is now LAW, baby!
As Jane reports on the Creative Commons blog, Californias OER pilot program has been signed into law:
Last week, a bill enabling the California Community Colleges to integrate open educational resou ....... read more
Mon,
06 Oct 2008
OpenCourseWars Deleted Scenes
You know those deleted scenes offered on DVDs? Well, Ive pulled together a collection of deleted scenes for my chapter 2005 - 2012: The OpenCourseWars
in the new book Opening Up Education from MIT ....... read more
Thu,
02 Oct 2008
If Facebook Worked Like Blackboard
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 Facebook:
sh ....... read more
Fri,
03 Oct 2008
Momentum on Open Accreditation
Lots more great discussion on the open education accreditation front! Including posts from Steve Carson (Borderlines) about the interface between the various functioning pieces of higher ed, Antonio w ....... read more
Thu,
02 Oct 2008
More on the Three Parts of Open Education
DArcy had a great post tonight about the three parts of open education. It validates something Ive been wondering to myself about for a while. While I use slightly different language, you can me my ....... read more
Mon,
29 Sep 2008