Blogging the OpenCourseWare (and OER) Movements
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!
Perhaps it is the global reach of the open courseware movement that offers the most radical challenge to the traditional localized method of delivering education. Some of the OpenCourseware Consortium’s members are experimenting with new models. Universia, for example, is a collaboration between a number of Spanish and Latin American universities, funded by the Bank of Santander.
In the late 1990s, when everybody wanted to take advantage of the moneymaking opportunities offered by the Internet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
(MIT) decided that it too wanted a slice of the action. MIT was, and still is, one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Couldn’t it use some of the intellectual property it was creating on its campus to generate some additional revenue?
From CORDISNews: Report identifies emergence of open educational resources movement
With the race on to build knowledge economies worldwide, many academic institutions are looking at new ways to increase the diffusion of their knowledge. One option is the use of open educational resources (OER), which, according to a new report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), is a rapidly growing phenomenon that offers learning opportunities to an unprecedented number of users worldwide. At the same time, this new trend is challenging established views and practices of how teaching is organised and carried out, and how knowledge is shared.
Continue reading ‘Report identifies emergence of open educational resources movement’
Wanna help change the world through education? Seriously.
The Job
If any of you know a top notch Web Architect/Dev, I am looking to for someone who can help out with the OpenCourseWare Consortium’s Internet initiatives.
While we’re probably looking for contractor help to start with, the ultimate position title (once full time) will be something like “Technical Architect”, and this person will be in charge of all things web in the OCW Consortium world, including the OCW Consortium Portal (porting it to a CRM solution), the OCWC Forum, revamping the OCWC Wiki, potentially a new project called “myOCW” (trying to build a learning community around OCW course content with technology), and many other endeavors.
There will be much traditional web work for starters, but we will quickly be moving into strategic realms once the basic design/integration is implemented. Continue reading ‘Looking to Hire Top Notch Web Architect/Dev for OpenCourseWare Movement’
The Open University is hosting a conference on October 30th and 31st, 2007 in Milton Keynes, U.K. focusing on “Researching open content in education”.
In conjunction with the conference, they are also holding a “reuse and remix” competition, that should be a lot of fun.
I hope to see many of you there!!!!
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