Content about Open Education
Dr. David Wiley’s Introduction to Open Education course has been an amazing experience. I took the course as part of an Independent Study option in the last semester of my Master’s Program in Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University. I had no idea what “open education” was before the semester started and guessed that it…
What will the future of education look like? What impact will the open education movement have? How will we get there from here? To answer these questions, I decided to circle back to a presentation Dr. Anne Leftwich and I delivered at the 2007 Open Education Conference. We didn’t have much time for audience reaction…
Some people believe that open educational resources “fix” many of the problems experienced by those who work with learning objects. Why do you think they would say this? Do you agree? Why or why not? I don’t have a lot of personal history with learning objects, so I am not coming at this answer from…
Questions for Week 9 of the Introduction to Open Education Course for the book The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman: What can the open education movement learn from the book you chose to read? Harnessing the Power of Communities: Friedman lists bottom-up and self-organized community development as his “Flattener #4”. He uses open source…
QUESTIONS: How can you build a sustainable business around giving away educational materials? How can you build a sustainable business model around giving away credentialed degrees? Should governments fund open education? Sustainable business model – start with a customer need: As I learned early on in my business courses, successful business models are based on…
Based on the readings and assignment for week 7 in the Introduction to Open Education … As I noted at the end of my post last week, it is likely that most supporters of the OER movement feel the more “open” the work, the greater the value. Further, I agree with Brian Lamb’s observation during…
Based on the readings for week 6 in the Introduction to Open Education Course, here are the questions we are pondering: QUESTIONS: Understanding the importance and value of the public domain, how much (what percentage) of this value would you estimate is realized when works are licensed with a Creative Commons or GFDL license? To…
Week 5 – Introduction to Open Education – Comparison of Open Education Projects Open Learn Rice University Connexions Carnegie Mellon UNESCO MIT OCW National Repository Outside Funding Sources Hewlett Hewlett Individuals Hewlett Premium Partners Foundations: Hewlett Mellon Lord Kabcenell Corporate Sponsors Individual Donations Hewlett Stated Area of Focus Gives free access to course materials from…
The following is a reflection on the following readings from the Introduction to Open Education course: Week 2: Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Week 3: Open Educational Practices and Resources – OLCOS Roadmap 2012 from the Open eLearning Content Observatory Services (OLCOS)…
Interested in following along and participating in the Open Ed conversation this week? Grab your PDF reader and download the file Open Educational Practices and Resources by the Open eLearning Content Observatory Services. Also, don’t forget to update your feedreader with blogs of the class participants found in the latest OPML file located on the…