About the OCW Consortium The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a worldwide community of hundreds of higher education institutions and associated organizations committed to advancing open education and its impact on global education. We seek to engender a culture of openness in education to allow everyone, everywhere to access the education they desire, while providing a shared body of knowledge and best practices that can be drawn upon for innovative and effective approaches. The OCW Consortium helps to solve social problems through expansion of access to education. It does this by leveraging its sources of expert opinion, its global network and its position as the principal voice of open education. What is OpenCourseWare? MOOC: comment choisir sa plate-forme? A moins que vous n’enseigniez dans un établissements prestigieux, vous pouvez d’ores et déjà faire une croix sur Coursera ou edX. Vous aurez beau être le meilleur pédagogue du monde, cela n’y changera pas grand chose car les plates-formes américaines sont avant tout dans une logique de marketing. Coursera et à plus forte raison edX cherchent à se construire une image de marque, et la pédagogie n’est pas leur première préoccupation (tout au moins pour Coursera). Ceci dit, cela n’engage à rien de contacter ces plates-formes: Daphne Koller, la fondatrice de Coursera, s’est fait une spécialité d’apprendre à refuser poliment ce genre de demande. Des établissements français réputés se sont déjà heurtés à des refus catégoriques.
Liberate Education: How to Start a Free School This how-to guide was written for Shareable by organizers (especially Aaron Rosenblum) from EXCOtc, a collective of Experimental Colleges in the Twin Cities of Minnesota that share a visions of a better world, offering free and open classes, and building a community around education for social change. EXCO-TC began eight years ago and is now made up of three collaborating local organizing chapters: Macalester/St. Paul, the U of M, and the Academia Communitaria. The Free Schooling Movement The origin of free schools (or free skools) in the United States can be traced back to 1911 when the first Modern School opened in New York City’s Lower East Side.
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