OER

More than 100 Free Places to Learn Online – and Counting

February 14, 2008

I’ve been a fan of open education for some time and recently have been intrigued by the revival of the “free” business model debate by Chris Anderson and Kevin Kelly, among others. So, conflating the two, I decided to undertake what turned into a “pulling a thread on a sweater” exercise and see how many [...]

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Free Net Generation Learner Course

February 5, 2008

Andreas Meiszner, who I first encountered via FLOSSCom.Net (see OER- Open Educational Resources) recently dropped me a line to let me know about a new online learning experience aimed at exploring the “Skills you need in lifelong learning knowledge and information societies.” Below I’ve included a description from the course site (which is built on [...]

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Open Education Marches On At Yale

December 13, 2007

I am glad to say that this posting does actually fit in with my previous two postings about the Great Ideas conference. Part of the reason I was at the conference was to attend a meeting of the professional development section council. During the council meeting, we brainstormed about topics for the next annual meeting, [...]

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OER Continued

November 28, 2007

Right around the time of my critique of Andrew Keen’s article in Associations Now last week I received notice from the Development Gateway of its new OER Introduction Booklet.  This seemed like good fodder for a posting that might continue the counter argument against Keen’s elitist line of thinking. Zaid Ali Alsagoff, however, has already [...]

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OER – Open Educational Resources

September 20, 2007

The catalyst for this particular post is the recent launch by Creative Commons of ccLearn, a division of Creative Commons, “dedicated to realizing the full potential of the Internet to support open learning and open educational resources.” Open Educational Resources, or OER, as the Wikipedia entry will tell you in more detail, is a term [...]

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