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Week 01: Orientation You are not logged in. [] [] Welcome to Change MOOC! Welcome to Change - a Massive Open Online Course. This email is a short introduction to the course facilitators and to what you can expect next week. The Movement Toward Movement: Emerging Trend Promotes Nonstop Creativity There’s a movement happening in classrooms around the country. Okay, that’s wildly overstating it. Let’s try it again. David Wiley: Open Teaching Multiplies the Benefit but Not the Effort - Wired Campus A number of years ago, my wife and I were driving through a small town in southeastern Ohio when we saw a sign hanging outside a pizza shop that read, “Buy One, Get One.” We commented that if we paid for one, we’d by golly better get one. Such is the humor of academics. But jokes aside, I am increasingly amazed by the ease with which participatory technology allows university faculty members to go two-for-one in the reach and impact of their efforts in teaching. In 2004 I began asking my students to post their homework on their personal, publicly accessible blogs.