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This list includes references to open courses.
Updated on Dec 18, 15
Created on Jul 22, 10
Category: Schools & Education
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Open access to video or audio multimedia versions of lectures at UC Berkeley.
Peer-based online university - relatively free (small fees for registration and exit exams). Small groups of peers work with scholars in 10 week sessions with explicit expectations for students to work together as they learn.
Courses and online degrees compiled from a wide variety of universities where videotaped lectures are freely available.
Links to free course collections (e.g., Annenberg Media) in the following disciplines: English, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Health Education, Physical Education, Computers
Blog entry that describes the Rice University's math department page of math resources that are free - look also at the related blog entries... loads more free resources there.
An open educational resource modeling how to write an open educational resource... by having you read it and learn from it at your own pace you can write your own OER unit.
Free, open course on "Personal Learning Environments for Inquiry in K12" - topics include orientation to open learning environments, processes and obstacles, and how to evaluate learning in PLEs and networks
Open courses for direct use by independent learners or for re-mix/use by instructors - HP-sponsored Measuring Learning Consortium will use it also to research on students' understanding of STEM coursework (France, Hong Kong, Russia, South Africa and USA)
Research Seminars at University of Worcester Island
Forthcoming sessions in 2011.
February 24th
Resistance – who has it, why it occurs and what can we do about it (Gann McGann – Mark Childs)
March Thursday 31st –
Supporting distributed team working in 3D virtual worlds – how a 3D virtual world facilitates socialisation and team working among students working on a team project at a distance. (Shailey Garfield – Shailey Minocha from the Department of Computing at the Open University)
Great approach to helping instructors understand some basic issues of student privacy and the role of social media. This kind of argument might encourage people to assign the use of (and contribution to) open educational resources. "FERPA was never intended to place students into the box of a physical or online classroom to prevent them from learning from the public."
includes study re intro statistics; problems and promises for mobile content delivery as "information dissemination" of a book vs interactive, collaborative work by students around selected texts
Areas of Study
General Education Program
Art History
Biology
Business Administration
Chemistry
Computer Science
Economics
English Literature
History
Mathematics
Mechanical Engineering
Political Science
Psychology
The Saylor Foundation (under its legal name, The Constitution Foundation) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. The Foundation was established in 1999 by Michael J. Saylor, Chairman, CEO, and President of the business intelligence company Microstrategy. Mr. Saylor serves as the Foundation’s sole trustee. The mission of the Saylor Foundation is to make education freely available to all. Guided by the belief that technology has the potential to circumvent barriers that prevent many individuals from participating in traditional schooling models, the Foundation is committed to developing and advancing inventive and effective ways of harnessing technology in order to drive the cost of education down to zero.
Inspired by the popular campus game Humans vs. Zombies, join @Jessifer and @allistelling for an epic zombiefied experiment in Twitter literacy, gamification, collaboration, and emergent learning.
Part flash-mob. Part Hunger-Games. Part Twitter-pocalypse. Part digital feeding frenzy. Part micro-MOOC. Part giant game of Twitter tag.
Band together your most trusted Twitter allies to defend against a virtual Zombie horde. Collect canned goods, store water, watch your hashtags, and sleep with one eye open.
THE RULES TO JOIN THE GAME:
Register on this page. Commit to posting at least 10 tweets per day.
THEN, TO PLAY:
1. A ZOMBIE can #bite (to attack) once every 30 minutes. A bite will turn a HUMAN to a ZOMBIE in exactly five minutes. A #bite can only be sent to a player who has been active on Twitter in the last five mins.
2. A HUMAN can #dodge (protect yourself) once per hour and #swipe (protect someone else) once per hour.
3. When you are bitten, you have five mins to reply to the ZOMBIE with #dodge or have another player reply to you and the zombie with #swipe. A turned HUMAN must update the Twitter vs. Zombies Scoreboard by changing his/her status to ZOMBIE.
4. The rules are emergent. There will be challenges, amendments, and rule adaptations as suggested by the community and implemented by administrators. Keep your eyes on the blog and #TvsZ for updates.
Anatomy of an action tweet: [@name(s)] [body of tweet with action tag #bite, #dodge, or #swipe playfully inserted] [game tag: #TvsZ]
Example of a bite/dodge:
@DigiWriMo attacks: “@moocmooc I want to #bite your lovely flesh. #TvsZ
@moocmooc dodges: “@DigiWriMo No you don’t. I have not used #dodge in an hour. #TvsZ
Example of a bite/swipe:
@DigiWriMo attacks: “@moocmooc What’s that lump on your neck? Is that some kind of #bite? #TvsZ
@Jessifer defends: “@DigiWriMo @moocmooc I #swipe your hungry beak. [pets @moocmooc] #TvsZ
The game is beta, and we will be crowd-sourcing the rules as it's played.
characteristics of open:
* enrollment (i.e., open registration), licensed materials (using Creative Commons)
* gratis (available at no-cost), libre (everyone has legal rights to repurpose the resource)
but some of the "new cohort of MOOCs are open enrollment but not yet openly licensed their courses (experimenting with various business models)
"MOOCs should address copyright and licensing early on so they are clear to users how they can utilize and reuse educational materials offered on the site. MOOCs should choose to adopt an open license that meets their goals, but at minimum it is recommended that they choose a public, standardized license that grants to its users the “4Rs” of open content: the ability to Reuse, Revise, Remix, and Redistribute the resources. "
definitions, economics, platforms, assessments, pedagogies still morphing; his perspective as a Fellow at Korea National Open University (and Open U) warns about all the previous efforts that "were ignominiously shuttered"
24 items | 2 visits
This list includes references to open courses.
Updated on Dec 18, 15
Created on Jul 22, 10
Category: Schools & Education
URL: