9/28/2008
9/21/2008
Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge
Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge
Given the abundance of open education initiatives that aim to make educational assets freely available online, the time seems ripe to explore the potential of open education to transform the economics and ecology of education. Despite the diversity of tools and resources already available—from well-packaged course materials to simple games, for students, self-learners, faculty, and educational institutions—we have yet to take full advantage of shared knowledge about how these are being used, what local innovations are emerging, and how to learn from and build on the experiences of others. Opening Up Education argues that we must develop not only the technical capability but also the intellectual capacity for transforming tacit pedagogical knowledge into commonly usable and visible knowledge: by providing incentives for faculty to use (and contribute to) open education goods, and by looking beyond institutional boundaries to connect a variety of settings and open source entrepreneurs.
Given the abundance of open education initiatives that aim to make educational assets freely available online, the time seems ripe to explore the potential of open education to transform the economics and ecology of education. Despite the diversity of tools and resources already available—from well-packaged course materials to simple games, for students, self-learners, faculty, and educational institutions—we have yet to take full advantage of shared knowledge about how these are being used, what local innovations are emerging, and how to learn from and build on the experiences of others. Opening Up Education argues that we must develop not only the technical capability but also the intellectual capacity for transforming tacit pedagogical knowledge into commonly usable and visible knowledge: by providing incentives for faculty to use (and contribute to) open education goods, and by looking beyond institutional boundaries to connect a variety of settings and open source entrepreneurs.
9/18/2008
Stanford U. Engineering Courses Offered Online -- for Free
from the Chronicle:
Stanford University is offering 10 online computer-science and electrical-engineering courses for free. The content will be offered through a variety of media and formats, including video on YouTube and podcasts on iTunes, and will present an introduction to computer science, artificial intelligence and robotics, and linear systems and optimization.
Stanford University is offering 10 online computer-science and electrical-engineering courses for free. The content will be offered through a variety of media and formats, including video on YouTube and podcasts on iTunes, and will present an introduction to computer science, artificial intelligence and robotics, and linear systems and optimization.
9/12/2008
Open textbook virtual meeting, 29th September 2008
There is a virtual meeting later this month for anyone interested in open textbooks! See this post on the main Open Knowledge Foundation blog for more details.
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