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…
The free online K12 Online Conference kicks off today. It is fun to follow the excitement by following the “official” conference tweets at http://twitter.com/k12online, as well as the fan tweet reactions from the “FO07k12O” (that is friends of 07 k12online)! The WP blog is really well organized, as is the wiki. Here is a link…
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…
While I was out making new connections at the Open Learn Conference (check out EdTechWeekly #47 for some highlights), Dave and Jeff were charging forward making new connections of their own during the New Media Literacies in Learning Landscapes Conference in Charlottetown, PEI . As Will notes, “we’re not quite there yet” with some of…
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)…
Late add to the Webcast-a-thon!! Test of WizIQ, a new web based web conferencing option for educators. Join the test as part of the Worldbridges webcast-a-thon – see link to session within the schedule at 22:00 GMT here -> http://tinyurl.com/267a7u