Blogging the OpenCourseWare (and OER) Movements
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My colleague Terri Bays and I spent a few days in Korea as a guest of Korea University, to launch their newly formed Korea OCW Consortium. We had a wonderful time — and look forward to great things from Korea OCW!!!
This is a few years old, but worth linking to. It’s basically a case study of the production of OpenCourseWare — written by the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Also, here’s a link to Johns Hopkins’ OCW site. It’s one of our finest.
For OCW fans and institutions out there, enjoy!
I had a wonderful visit to Capilano College last week in Vancouver, Canada. Last week they launched their new OCW site — which is wonderful (you can read about it here and here). For a quick glance, check out this Archaeology course — which is really cool.
Let us extend a big, hearty congratulations to Cap College OCW!
By Lisa Petrides, featured in Inside Higher Ed
The concept of aggregating, sharing, and collaboratively enriching free educational materials over the Internet has been emerging over the past several years. The movement has been led by faculty members and content specialists who believe that making lesson plans, training modules and full courses freely available can help improve teaching and make educational resources more dynamic through a cross-pollination of ideas and expertise. The Hewlett Foundation-funded OpenCourseWare initiative and the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education’s OER Commons offer a glimpse of the potential for open content in higher education. Continue reading ‘Fulfilling the Promise of Open Content (Lisa Petrides)’
For those of you who are not aware, the next OpenCourseWare Consortium conference will be held in Dalian, China from April 24-27, 2008.
You can find out more information about the conference here.
Conference attendance is open — so we hope some of you will be able to join us!
Check out MIT’s slick new site for OCW video!!!
Kudos to MIT.
The quest for sustainability in open courseware
Created by Paul Trafford (University of Oxford) on July 15, 2007
I’ve been reflecting recently on the subject of open courseware and, more specifically, OpenCourseWare following the keynote for the Sakai conference in Amsterdam delivered confidently and enthusiastically by Hal Abelson (a podcast is available). In this post I’ll briefly recap some of the core aspects as I understand them and then go on to explore this area, based on personal experiences and ideas I’ve been formulating at Oxford.
Abelson took a broad view, inviting the audience to go back 25 years and defined programming as a “novel formal medium for expressing ideas.” Against that, he got us to consider the aspirations and expectations that we might have had then, encapsulating this in 3 predictions for 25 years thence (i.e. today):
It’s the third that has yet to be properly delivered. Starting from consideration of why not, he then developed the rationale leading to the MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) initiative and the more recent Creative Commons Learn (ccLearn). Continue reading ‘The Quest for Sustainability in OpenCourseWare’
The University of Southern Queensland in Australia has recently published a new OpenCourseWare site.
The content is quite remarkable. In addition — the entire OCW site is Moodle-based, which is encouraging as well.
Check it out if you get the chance!
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