Alfonso Sintjago sur Twitter : "#OpenCon2014 @SPARC_NA changing the default to #open "i am going to share it unless there is a good reason not to". Remixed_ed : Looking forward to collaborating... Remixed_ed : @Siyavula. A project changing... Remixed_ed : Many #MOOC study write ups... The Avalanche That Hasn't Happened #opened13. #opened13 Keynote: Audrey Watters. This presentation began with a general discussion – informed by Audrey’s background as a folklore scholar – of apocalyptic prediction.
Apocalypse and crisis are motifs that are common in contemporary discourse around education and educational technology, often accompanied by the idea of some sort of salvation through technology. Christiansen’s (1995) notion of disruptive innovation threatens to both sweep away the new as a destructive force while ushering in the radically new. Watters argues that these ‘end-times’ kinds of myths have a pervasive on American culture, and that the idea of disruptive innovation is particularly prevalent among Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and in business culture. Open Source Is Old School, Says The GitHub Generation. For years, the software industry has been trending away from so-called ‘copyleft’ licenses like the GNU General Public License (GPL) and toward permissive, Apache-style licensing.
Given the rising importance of developers, this isn’t surprising: developers just want to get work done without being bogged down by license requirements. It’s perhaps not surprising, therefore, that permissive Apache licensing may simply be a way station on the road to no licensing at all. TEDxUMN 2013 on Livestream. B.C. to lead Canada in offering students free, open textbooks. B.C. to lead Canada in offering students free, open textbooks VANCOUVER – British Columbia is set to become the first province in Canada to offer students free online, open textbooks for the 40 most popular post-secondary courses.
Udacity Statistics 101. The prospect of massive-scale online schooling seems to be all the rage at the moment.
Recent competing initiatives include Khan Academy, OpenCourseWare, Udacity, Coursera, and edX (the latter ones sponsored by top-name schools such Stanford, Harvard, or MIT, or else founded by ex-faculty members). The idea of universal and free access to college programs from top researchers has fired the imagination of many in the blogosphere, and some have predicted the imminent collapse of traditional universities in the face of this “tsunami”. As a college educator myself, I felt compelled to survey one of these courses, so as to assess their general quality, advantages, and disadvantages. Password: OER. Communicate OER. "OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.
Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge. " —The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Remixathon — Open Education Conference 2012. This year we thought we’d try a couple of experiments.
In addition to Tuesday afternoon’s “Pitchfest” we are introducing the Remixathon. We want to offer folks at the conference, and those participating virtually, the chance to give proof to the promise that Open Educational Resources have always held, that they enable remixed derivative works. Virtual Kickoff On Friday, October 12 at 11am PDT we will be hosting a virtual kickoff to the Remixathon in Blackboard Collaborate. At that time, all of the submitters will have a chance to talk about their content and ways they can envision it being remixed, and participants can discuss ways in which they might approach the problem. Massive Open Online Courses Are Multiplying at a Rapid Pace. That’s what everyone is trying to figure out. Many places offer MOOCs, and more will. But Coursera, Udacity and edX are defining the form as they develop their brands. Coursera casts itself as a “hub” — Dr. Ng’s word — for learning and networking. The learning comes gratis from an impressive roster of elites offering a wide range of courses, from computer science to philosophy to medicine.
Hacking the Textbook (Open) Cross-posted at Inside Higher Ed Opening Educational Resources The "killer apps" for education, argued Stanford University professor John Willinsky at last week’s Open Education Conference, will be built when we apply our lessons to our communities “so that the learning I do in school contributes to the public library and to the public knowledge of my community” — in other words, so that learning and research remain open.
Willinsky’s keynote, along with Gardner Campbell’s keynote at the same event, have resonated with me since because these are the fundamental questions we must ask: How do we keep open education open, and to what end? Now more than ever, it feels like an incredibly important time to be making a clear argument for what we mean by open education. OpenEdCCIdeas. Open Education 2012: Schedule. #opened12 for those unable to attend in person — Open Education Conference 2012. We really do wish everyone who wanted to could attend #opened12, but whether due to budget constraints, timing or other circumstances, we know there are a lot of folks who would like to but can’t. We’re trying to think of as many ways to include those who can’t be here as we can (and are always open to other suggestions too), so please, even if you can’t be with us in person, we hope you’ll join in virtually and benefit from the energy this conference always generates.
Open Education 2012: Strategies to foster OER and OER initiat... The Real Revolution Is Openness, Clay Shirky Tells Tech Leaders - Wired Campus. Denver — Clay Shirky is one of the country’s most prominent Internet thinkers—“a spiritual guide to the wired set,” as The Chronicle Review put it in a 2010 profile of him.
In his latest book, Cognitive Surplus, the New York University professor argues that a flowering of creative production will arise as the Internet turns people “from consumers to collaborators.” On Wednesday, Mr. Shirky took that message to a group of higher-education-technology leaders who have been buffeted by a rapidly evolving ed-tech landscape. Mr. Massive Open Online Courses Are Multiplying at a Rapid Pace. A Dot-Com Entrepreneur's Ambition: Drive Education Costs to Zero - Technology.
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Saylor was early to the free online-education market. In 2000, Mr. ODG-COT Collaborative Meeting Featuring DynamicBooks and Open Ed recap. The ODG-COT Collaborative opened its November monthly meeting to everyone.
Here is the link to the archive of the meeting: Presentations included:: Nicholas Smith, President of ODG-COT sponsor DynamicBooks showing how the DynamicBooks platform supports open content. Nicholas recently commented "“DynamicBooks strongly believes in lowering the cost of education and making customizable, quality learning materials available to all students at reasonable prices. By sponsoring COT, we are fostering growth in one of the rapidly expanding programs to achieve these goals” Charles Key, ODG-COT Senior Manager for Adoptions, will recap the recent Open Ed Conference in Vancouver including the Save Students $1B by 2015 initiative meeting.
MOOC's Take a Major Step Toward College Credit - Technology. By Jeffrey R. Young The American Council on Education has agreed to review a handful of free online courses offered by elite universities and may recommend that other colleges grant credit for them. The move could lead to a world in which many students graduate from traditional colleges faster by taking self-guided courses on the side, taught free by professors from Stanford University, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and other well-known colleges.
In what leaders describe as a pilot project, the group will consider five to 10 massive open online courses, or MOOC's, offered through Coursera for possible inclusion in the council's College Credit Recommendation Service. That service has been around since the 1970s and focuses on certifying training courses, offered outside of traditional colleges, for which students might want college credit. Broadcast Yourself. Libros y Cursos Abiertos. Creative Commons. Longtime CC musician Josh Woodward will be releasing his new album under the CC Attribution license.
Homebrew Computer Club Reunion by Joël Franusic For one night only, the original members of the legendary Homebrew Computer Club will reunite at the Computer History Museum Successful! OAUMN : Tireless advocate Rafael Tarrago... Libraries promote open access to academic journals. Libraries promote open access to academic journals. OAUMN : Working the Wash Ave bridge... Libraries promote open access to academic journals. OAUMN: Open Access Week t-shirts!
Gardner Campbell’s Open Education 2012 Keynote. Gardner Campbell did the opening keynote at the Open Education 2012 conference in Vancouver this year. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia. MOOC as Networked Textbook and a look back at the feedbook. A comment by Jason Green on twitter got me thinking again about a different lens through which to see the MOOC. The book, and particularly the textbook, are at the core of many of our classrooms. Coursera strikes MOOC licensing deal with Antioch University. Coursera, the largest provider of massive open online courses (MOOCs), has entered into a contract to license several of the courses it has built with its university partners to Antioch University, which would offer versions of the MOOCs for credit as part of a bachelor’s degree program. The deal represents one of the first instances of a third-party institution buying permission to incorporate a MOOC into its curriculum -- and awarding credit for the MOOC -- in an effort to lower the full cost of a degree for students.
It is also a first step for Coursera and its partners toward developing a revenue stream from licensing its courses. “OER will need 20 to 30 years to reach its ultimate global realization” The future of the internet: A virtual counter-revolution. The balkanisation of the internet: Still a universal network? Clay Shirky: How the Internet will (one day) transform government. Microsoft Tightens Personal Data Rules. The action followed a letter by Representative Edward J. Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat who is co-chairman of the Congressional Bipartisan Privacy Caucus, to Steven A.
Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, expressing concern about the policy, which went into effect on Friday. In raising questions about Microsoft’s new policy, Mr. DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education. Minnesota bans Coursera: State takes bold stand against free education. Screenshot / Coursera UPDATE, Oct. 19, 7:07 p.m.: Common sense has indeed prevailed! Gardner Campbell, J. Alfred Prufrock, & the Ecologies of Yearning. Singularity: Kurzweil on 2045, When Humans, Machines Merge. Oct 30 CCCOER: Supporting All of Our Students with Accessible OER « Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources. Please join us October 30, 1:00 pm Eastern for a webinar on how to best support our diverse students by selecting and creating “accessible” open textbooks and open educational resources that provide equitable learning opportunities regardless of disability.
Creative Common directly avalaible In Microsoft Office. Coursera doubles university partnerships. Dark side of the MOOC. Open Access Wikipedia Challenge. Open Access Week. Open Access Week is an annual international celebration to raise awareness of the issue of access to published scholarly research. Open Academics. PHD TV. Fastfonz : #opened12 Enjoy the conference... School of Open. Call for Action - Open Ed 2012.
Open Textbook Translation. CCCOER: Support All of Our Students with Accessible OER. Visualizing cMOOC data: Extracting and analysing data from FeedWordPress part 1 #ds106 #NodeXL JISC CETIS MASHe. Coursera strikes MOOC licensing deal with Antioch University. Given Tablets but No Teachers, Ethiopian Children Teach Themselves. Library Technology Conference 2012 by Andrew McLaughlin on Prezi. The New 10 YouTube Educational Gurus. 99percent. Web DeathWatch: One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Technology-Enhanced Learning in Developing Nations: A review. Home.