The Open CourseWare movement began in 2002 when MIT began offering its courses for free online. Since then, the Open CourseWare offerings have increased significantly, and the effects of that growth have spawned calls for credentialing of learning achieved via OCW. This year has seen some pretty spectacular progress towards this with the founding of OERU, Badges for Learning, and… (more…)
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The Musical Staircase
At a recent meeting, one of the faculty members reported on a research article she had read regarding a musical staircase. What she said was that in the experiment researchers set up a system whereby a staircase played music while an escalator in close proximity did not. They wanted to determine whether people would prefer to take the musical staircase… (more…)
Preparing Online Courses for the Swine Flu
The listservs are buzzing with the topic of Swine Flu and colleges are preparing to put whole semesters online in case of an epidemic. Those colleges with the structures in place to do so, can easily do this, but there are a number of institutions that will not be prepared, have not invested in online learning and training of their… (more…)
- A critical look at education: assessment of learning, institutional assessments, and assessments of the education system
Open Education Week: March 5 – 10, 2012
The OpenCourseWare Consortium announces the first annual Open Education Week from March 5-10, 2012. Open Education Week is a global event that seeks to raise awareness about the benefits of free and open sharing in education, especially Open Educational Resources (OER). OER are high-quality, free and open educational materials that offer opportunities for people anywhere in the world to share, use and reuse. “The vision of the open education movement is to create a world in which the desire to learn is fully met by the opportunity to do so, where everyone, everywhere, is able to access affordable, educationally and culturally appropriate opportunities to gain whatever knowledge or training they desire.-
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