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27 Dec 08

Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Why Universities Shouldn't Create "Something like YouTube" (Part One)

  • Almost none of this holds with the average college class which has a fixed duration, a prearranged sequence of materials and problems, a disciplined border, a geographically narrowed location, etc. So, if we want to integrate these into our classes, they require

    much greater flexibility in imagining what constitutes an educational context. They certainly involve developing projects which span disciplines, which link several classes together and requires students to build on each other's work, and which may straddle multiple universities dispersed in space. All of this is easier said than done, of course, but we should be experimenting with how to achieve this goals since at this point it is even hard to point to many real world examples of what this would look like.
  • That said, I do not myself participate in Open Courseware. I freely give away my own content through our various blogs, podcasts, and online materials. But MIT has failed to assert a strong Fair Use defense which allows instructors to meaningfully quote from and repurpose existing materials as part of their instructional process. As a media scholar, my teaching centers on helping students understand other people's media content and if I can't quote from and share that content with the users of the Open Courseware, I can not meaningfully reproduce my instructional practices online. MIT had an opportunity to be a leader in the arguments about Fair Use, especially given the good will they have gotten through Open Courseware, yet they have chosen to take a very timid and conservative legal approach to these matters and as a consequence, I feel like it severely compromises the goals and ideals of the Open Courseware initiative.
09 Nov 08

Hacking Education

  • But a visit to wikipedia is all I need to refresh my mind and help my kids. Wikipedia is an amazing resource and yet the teachers in my kids' school deride it as "not reliable". Well I'll tell you this much, Wikipedia is more reliable than some of my kids' teachers.
  • He told me about a teacher who runs one of his online CFA courses. This guy is a superstar. His courses are fun and engaging. Taking his course is like reading a great columnist or a wonderful book. You want to get back to it because its so engaging. These teachers can make a lot of money and they should. They are the best at what they do.
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15 Sep 08

Link by Link - Don’t Buy That Textbook, Download It Free - NYTimes.com

  • Unlike other projects that share course materials, notably OpenCourseWare at M.I.T., Connexions uses broader Creative Commons license allowing students and teachers to rewrite and edit material as long as the originator is credited. Teachers put up material, called “modules,” and then mix and match their work with others’ to create a collection of material for students. “We are changing textbook publishing from a pipeline to an ecosystem,” he said.
  • Connexions is strongest in statistics and electrical engineering — areas with technologically advanced students and a greater need to update material than, say, works on medieval history. He said there were 850,000 unique users a month, with more than 50 percent of the traffic originating from outside the United States.
12 Sep 08

Infinite Thinking Machine

  • Wikispaces has given away 100,000 ad-free educational wikis, and has just announced they are going to give away 250,000 more. We're going to celebrate the general use of wikis in education and Wikispace's amazing milestone by having founder Adam Frey and the Wikispaces team join us Thursday evening, September 11, 2008, for an open Classroom 2.0 discussion of the use of wikis in education.
22 Jun 08

Evolution to Education 3.0 | Terra Incognita - A Penn State World Campus Blog

  • The emergence of widespread technical infrastructure (the Internet), coupled with an abundance of Free Software and Free Educational Resources (”Open Educational Resources”) has reduced some of this scarcity, and made other models of education possible.

Making Money, the How-To Way - New York Times

  • that has been seen online by more people (1.88 million) than live in Manhattan (about 1.6 million).
  • Metacafe, a video-sharing Web site that pays the makers of popular videos.
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21 Jun 08

ZaidLearn: University Learning = OCW + OER = FREE!

umm, there are tons of free learning material we can explore. but the problem is how we can digest all this information. i need to think about it. brain enhancement...

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Learning2.0 10 ◎

  • If I am not mistaken, it would take me approximately 754 years to digest all the resources currently linked here. However, if we connect, network, collaborate, learn and reflect together we might manage to digest (to innovate and improve) these free learning resources in less than 24 hours.

Learning in the new era

  • Nearly a decade into the new millennium, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: a 20th century education is a bad fit for 21st century learners. Many of today’s learners fail to acquire the skills and competencies they need to find productive employment and meet the challenges now facing the societies in which they live.


06 May 08

The Future of Web2.0

  • So, can Web 2.0 help get us around the present limitations of ePortfolios? Web
    2.0 provides an opportunity for students to mash up a variety of
    applications, the results of which they own themselves and can make
    available to anyone. To that end, we should start thinking not so much
    in terms of an ePortfolio but, instead, in terms of a personal learning
    environment (PLE).
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