This week’s assignment: QUESTIONS: What do these representative open education projects have in common? What differentiates them? In the context of open education projects, what does “quality” mean? These projects have more that differentiates them then they have in common,
Connexions on Ask Ted
This is a great video about OER and the Connexions project from TED. (If you aren’t familiar with TED, it’s a phenomenal conference with “inspired talks by the world’s greatest thinkers and doers. The videos from it are licensed under
Question for anyone who has info
In the United States, most government-published content is public domain. Does anyone know if that is the case elsewhere in the world, particularly in the developing world? A quick web search didn’t turn up much on this, so I appreciate
Learners…remember them?
A few minutes ago, I heard a comment at a session at the OpenEd conference about content providers’ push vs. learners’ pull. Oh…learners. I’d almost forgotten about them. With a few exceptions, I have not heard a lot of discussion
Technology as a native or non-native species
I went to an interesting session at the COSL 2007 Open Ed conference today by Christopher Hoadley from Penn State. One of his ways of looking at technology use was how its’ instructional use fits into the local learning and