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Taking learning to scale for accelerating development The OLC is our response to address this development learning gap and dive into the revolution in learning the world is witnessing today. Digital and online learning has the potential of scaling up and reaching the millions who are eager to learn, apply new knowledge, and more importantly, continue learning as they progress through their careers, and acquire new competencies. This outreach and democratization of learning has a huge potential to provide insights on the best possible solutions for complex development problems that build on good practices, learn from failures and mine the tacit knowledge available through thousands of development practitioners.
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Three issues loom large for OER advocates: quality, ecosystems and infrastructure.
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Open Access Without Tears
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This site has one purpose – to bust myths about Open Educational Resources! There are two parts – a mythbusting guide and a quick introduction to OER.
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For more than a year now, ever since Udacity’s famous “pivot,” it seems like at least once a week a new article comes out proclaiming that MOOCs are dead, that they failed and are now being buried (no doubt to the collective relief of higher education institutions and training departments everywhere).
inspiration4kidz's curator insight,
February 1, 2015 12:27 PM
And as our students become more and more comfortable learning in online environments, they will continue to grow in popularity. 
KCenter SKEMA's curator insight,
February 3, 2015 10:43 AM
Une réflexion sur ce que l'on voit partout concernant la mort évidente des MOOCs. L'auteur de l'article propose un autre scenario : celui du changement en profondeur du mode d'apprentissage face au modèle traditionnel, les nouveaux business models émergent avec l'accès auxlibre aux cours, ainsi que l'apprentissage en entreprise. Les MOOCs changent et dans 5 ou 10 ans ils ne ressembleront à ce qu'ils sont aujourd'hui mais l'essence même du MOOC perdurera.
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With these resources, you can create or participate in collaborative efforts to develop tools and methods for online education.
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.
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"Building a Global Open Education Working Group from Marieke Guy An interesting discussion took place as part of the day 1 panel session on whether communities are built or just evolve. It’s clear that there is no right and wrong here and there are many subtleties, but the Twitter comments made are noteworthy: * Community is like that place in the park where people gather…we can’t build it * It not simple to create open communities which are not localised as species often geographically specific * I don’t think they just happen, maybe they need to be ‘nurtured’ or ‘fostered * Master plan communities in the states – everything is planned out. And then a wall and gate around it. That’s not a community * Do we actually build a community? Communities happen. * Discussion of can we build community? Or are we just making links? * But when you link communities, aren’t you ‘building’ a new community anyway? * Surely people will do what people we do, and we offer resources to help them. We don’t “build” communities.
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How can open educational resources learn from the free and open software movement?
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The European Open Education Portal. Find open educational resources and exchanges best practices.
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This is an article on a project by the University of Mary Washington, Virginia, that enables all students to create their own academic web presence through the provision of a university-wide blogging platform. The article provides some good examples of student work done through this project, particularly in history.
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While the OER community owes some of its genesis to the open source and free software movements, there are some aspects of how and why these movements work that I think are missing or need greater emphasis.
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In keeping with the ethos of open education, the OER conferences have always made an effort to be as diverse, inclusive and, well, open as possible and OER16 Open Culture is no exception.
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Online learning, new media, connectivism, MOOCs, personal learning environments, new literacy, and more from Stephen Downes
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With all the fuss about MOOCs over the last few years efforts like iTunes University have been lost in the shuffle. The closed platform didn't exactly make iTunesU feel 'open', but it was and is widely popular. And for today's analysis, the difference in usage patterns is revealing. Viewers skew younger, less educated, and less formal. And they reflect some trends also found in other open education resource (OER) efforts. For example: while many factors influence selection, licensing and attractive presentation aren't high on the list. Also, a significant number of people feel their needs are being met without the need for formal learning. And online assessment doesn't appear to be a major motivating factor.
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This fall, I attended Learning With MOOCs II. To some, it may sound like the sequel to a bad movie where Mork and Mindy go off to college, but it’s actually a really great conference focused on MOOC development, implementation, management, and research. Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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December 3, 2015 11:18 AM
Note: The MOOC Case Book - Case Studies in Mooc Design, Development & Implementation is finally out. Get it here: http://moocbookproject.blogspot.com
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Presentation by Martin Weller Introduced by Ella Mitchell and Sarah Bridgman . The OER Research Hub has been investigating the impact of OERs, using eleven hypotheses, and a mixed methods approach to establish an evidence base. This talk explores the findings relating to teaching and learning. The findings reveal a set of direct impacts, including an increase in factors relating to student performance, increased reflection on the part of educators, and the use of OER to trial and supplement formal study. There are also indirect impacts, whose benefits will be seen after several iterations.
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Open Education is a movement, a set of practices, a collection of resources and a range of tools. What brings them together is the aim of sharing knowledge, and technology is making that possible w...
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The Open Education Handbook was conceived as an intended deliverable for the LinkedUp Project. The LinkedUp [http://linkedup-project.eu/ ] Description of Work describes the ‘LinkedUp Handbook on Open Data in Education’ as a “resource for both educators and Web data providers as well as adopters….The Linked Up Handbook will be created as a living document to reflect project learnings and findings, which will help others, both during the project and beyond it“. To fulfill this brief the handbook has evolved to consider the broader scope of open education resulting in it being renamed as ‘the Open Education Handbook‘ [ http://education.okfn.org/handbook/ ].
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Institutional repositories are increasing in number, improving access to online archiving and preserving and disseminating digital copies of the intellectual output of research institutions. Doors are opening for students in low-income countries to access instructional and tutorial materials from leading universities in the developed world at the touch of a button.
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More than just a popular producer of excellent tutorials, Khan Academy is also leveraging data to enable teachers to assess progress and focus on individual
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Why are MOOCs innovative? They provide alternative ways for students to gain new knowledge according to a given curriculum. MOOCs can also enhance learners’ ability to think creatively to select and adapt a paradigm to solve the problem at hand. These are the main findings of a case study on the Discrete Optimization MOOC on Coursera.
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Transforming education requires pedagogical, organisational and technological innovation. Increasing use of the Internet brought in a new era in course design and delivery to the mainstream model o...
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Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators.
With the internet, universal access to education is possible, but its potential is hindered by increasingly restrictive copyright laws and incompatible technologies. The Education program at Creative Commons works to minimize these barriers, supporting the CC mission through consulting, education, and outreach on using the right technologies and licenses to maximize the benefits of open educational resources (OER) and the return on investment in publicly funded education and research programs. Our work cuts across all levels of education (K-12 to postsecondary) and sectors of industry (nonprofit to corporate)..
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