OLAT Developing a Framework for Understanding and Evaluating the Impa At the CAL 2009 conference in Brighton last week, I gave a presentation entitled “Developing a Framework for Understanding and Evaluating the Impact of Open Educational Resources”. This presentation was partly based on Adam’s blog about Open Educational Resources and the Zachman Framework as well as some of the latest thinking and discussions on the rapid development of intuitional OER initiatives internationally as well as JISC/HEA pilot OER funding programme with colleagues at CETIS. Given the complexity of the OER initiative itself and the nature of the transformation process of the OERs, we need a more structured way to capture different views and expectations from various players involved in the OER development process and a useful tool to examine institutional strategies in relation to OER approach and their impact on current and future practice in HE. In the first row, the planner identifies the education vision and mission in relation to OER in general.
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Introduction to Open Educational Resources 10 Open Education Resources You May Not Know About (But Should) This week, the OCW Consortium is holding its annual meeting, celebrating 10 years of OpenCourseWare. The movement to make university-level content freely and openly available online began a decade ago, when the faculty at MIT agreed to put the materials from all 2,000 of the university’s courses on the Web. With that gesture, MIT OpenCourseWare helped launch an important educational movement, one that MIT President Susan Hockfield described in her opening remarks at yesterday’s meeting as both the child of technology and of a far more ancient academic tradition: “the tradition of the global intellectual commons.” We have looked here before at how OCW has shaped education in the last ten years, but in many ways much of the content that has been posted online remains very much “Web 1.0.” But as open educational resources and OCW increase in popularity and usage, there are a number of new resources out there that do offer just that.
LMS is no longer the centre of the universe OK, so here’s the deal – if learning is work and work is learning, why is organizational learning controlled by a learning management systems (LMS) that isn’t connected to the work being done in the enterprise? Learning is no longer what you do before you go to work, never having to learn anything else in order to do your job. In the 21st century networked economy, learning and working are becoming one. As Robert Kelley showed over a 20 year study of knowledge workers, we need to keep learning in order to get our jobs done – “What percentage of the knowledge you need to do your job is stored in your own mind?” In a networked economy, social learning is how we get things done. The LMS framework is being challenged for its supremacy over organizational learning much as heliocentricity showed European civilization that we were not the centre of the galaxy.
Michael Nielsen on Networked Science Why Pearson’s OpenClass Is a Big Deal The big buzz at EDUCAUSE last week was around OpenClass, Pearson’s new LMS entrant. Much hyped but only rarely glimpsed, speculation has been rampant about whether it is a big deal or just a gimmick. Because most people (including me) don’t have access to the product yet, the best source of information on it at the moment is Adrian Sannier, eCollege’s VP of Product. In a previous post here on e-Literate, Phil Hill characterized OpenClass as potentially disruptive. The audacity of what Pearson is attempting should not be underestimated. Some Housekeeping Before we get to the heart of the matter, I need to dispose of a few issues up front. Second, hype. Then there’s the claim that Pearson is making about migration. And finally, there’s the question about whether OpenClass is a traditional LMS or a category breaker. How much does the hype matter? On the Nature of Disruption With that out of the way, let’s get down to business. Now think about the OpenClass tagline. Google+ Comments
OER Quality Project 80 Open Education Resource (OER) Tools for Publishing and Development Initiatives Many Open Education Resources (OER) have been introduced by governments, universities, and individuals within the past few years. OERs provide teaching and learning materials that are freely available and offered online for anyone to use. Whether you're an instructor, student, or self-learner, you have access to full courses, modules, syllabi, lectures, assignments, quizzes, activities, games, simulations, and tools to create these components. While some OERs include OpenCourseWare (OCW) or other educational materials, they may also offer the means to alter those courses through editing, adding to those courses through publication, and the ability to shape the tools that share those resources. To that end, the list below — arranged in alphabetical order — includes 80 online resources that you can use to learn how to build or participate in a collaborative educational effort that focuses on publication and development of those materials.
SA research now free online | News | Sci-tech Academic journals charge for article access and this means that only institutions and people with resources can access the new knowledge they contain, especially the prestigious journals. South Africa is no different, as we pay exorbitant fees, in pounds, dollars or euros, to access these journals to read research – both by local and international academics – that is paid for with taxpayers' money. This generally makes it too costly for a member of the public to read the research coming out of South Africa – research that they may have paid for. This is why the country is turning to open access through the South African arm of the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO SA), the first open access site for scholarly journals on the African continent. Although the issue of open access has been topical for more than a decade in academic circles, it jumped into the mainstream media earlier this year when an American internet activist, Aaron Swartz, committed suicide.