Thieme Hennis's List: Open Education

free online course and repository about biological design. pretty cool stuff.

amazing online book providing an overview of all elements in science teaching.

The Sourcebook for Teaching Science – Strategies, Activities, and Instructional Resources, provides new and experienced teachers a wealth of teaching strategies, resources, lessons, activities, and ideas to enhance the teaching and learning of physics, chemistry, biology, and the earth and space sciences. Resources are based on learning theory, and are designed to stimulate student interest and involvement. As students engage in the activities of this book, they develop higher order reasoning skills, and a deeper understanding of scientific concepts and their relevance to their everyday life.

28The Sourcebook for Teaching Science is designed to complement any secondary school science curriculum. Science teachers will find ready-to-use demonstrations, experiments, illustrations, games, puzzles, analogies, lessons, activities, and strategies, as well as explanations of how to adapt these for English learners and diverse student populations. All topics are accompanied by extensive background material, providing teachers with the scientific, organizational, and pedagogical principles necessary for successful classroom implementation.

github page with the data specialization contents (related with the MOOC specialization on Coursera)

number of xAPI case studies

"An educational community of inquiry is a group of individuals who collaboratively engage in purposeful critical discourse and reflection to construct personal meaning and confirm mutual understanding.

The Community of Inquiry theoretical framework represents a process of creating a deep and meaningful (collaborative-constructivist) learning experience through the development of three interdependent elements – social, cognitive and teaching presence.

Social presence is “the ability of participants to identify with the community (e.g., course of study), communicate purposefully in a trusting environment, and develop inter-personal relationships by way of projecting their individual personalities.” (Garrison, 2009)

Teaching Presence  is the design, facilitation, and direction of cognitive and social processes for the purpose of realizing personally meaningful and educationally worthwhile learning outcomes (Anderson, Rourke, Garrison, & Archer, 2001).

Cognitive Presence is the extent to which learners are able to construct and confirm meaning through sustained reflection and discourse (Garrison, Anderson, & Archer, 2001).

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paper evaluating websites offering opportunities for free online learning.

nice online learning platform. using YouTube.

"The Open Design Contest is a global platform for local design contests, to make designers aware of open design. Labs around the world can organize a contest where designers can (re)design products, fabricate them and share them with others. Participants are stimulated to build further on entries from previous competitions, to improve the designs even better or to give an existing design a local ‘flavor’. Designers are not only rewarded for fabricating a beautiful object, but also for the way they enable others to (re) make their object.
The contest is a great tool for labs to make people aware of the principles and strategies of open design. The global repository provides a large inspiration base of designs and blueprints, that people can (re)use to make an entry for the contest themselves. Local (physical) design sessions allow people to experiment through designing together, and to discuss the implications of open design. Off course every local lab has it’s own perspective on open design, and it will be exciting to see the local differences."

"Designing for Diverse Learners.

FLOE provides the resources to personalize how we each learn and to address barriers to learning. Learners learn differently, and today’s society needs diverse, self-aware, life-long learners. FLOE supports learners, educators and curriculum producers in achieving one-size-fits-one learning design for the full diversity of learners, leveraging the variants made possible by Open Education Resources (OER).

FLOE is led by the Inclusive Design Research Centre and applies Inclusive Design to open learning"

report on the PLay with your music course by p2pu.

"IMS is developing a standard which:
creates IMS Learning Metric Profiles to establish a basic, and extensible, common format for presenting learning activity data gathered from learner activity across multiple learning environments. Metric Profiles provide a common language for describing student activity. By establishing a set of common labels for learning activity data, the metric profiles greatly simplify exchange of this data across multiple platforms. While Metric Profiles provide a standard, they do not in and of themselves provide a product or specify how to provide a product. Many different products can be created using the same labels established by the standard.
creates the IMS Learning Sensor API to define basic learning events and to standardize and simplify the gathering of learning metrics across learning environments. 
leverages and extends the IMS LTI™/LIS/QTI™ standards thus enhancing and integrating granular, standardized learning measurement with tools interoperability and the underlying learning information models, inclusive of course, learner, outcomes and other critical associated context."

online community based learning.

very elaborate list with statistical topics relevant for learning analytics. through #DALMOOC

quite a nice report about design thinking.

"The Open Source Data Science Masters
Curriculum for Data Science"

Useful for DelftX?

"The LinkedUp Toolbox is for open data competition organisers. It can be applied by those organising academic or industry competitions."

"Advancing MOOC data science through collaborative frameworks
The MOOCdb project aims to brings together education researchers, computer science researchers, machine learning researchers, technologists, database and big data experts to advance MOOC data science. The project founded at MIT includes a platform agnostic functional data model for data exhaust from MOOCs, a collaborative-open source-open access data visualization framework, a crowd sourced knowledge discovery framework and a privacy preserving software framework. The team is currently working to release a number of these tools and frameworks as open source."

global community of alternative educational initiatives