September 2007
8 posts
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OpenED: A Review of the Open Educational Resources...
Open Educational Resources, past & future (3/3) Three interesting papers about open educational resources are discussed this week in the course “Introduction to Open Education”, given by David Wiley. These papers, although partly overlapping, show some interesting facts about OER, motivation, production, copyright, and all other related issues, as well as some compelling ideas and...
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OpenED: OLCOS Roadmap 2012
Open Educational Resources, past & future (2/3) Three interesting papers about open educational resources are discussed this week in the course “Introduction to Open Education”, given by David Wiley. These papers, although partly overlapping, show some interesting facts about OER, motivation, production, copyright, and all other related issues, as well as some compelling ideas and...
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OpenED: Giving Knowledge for Free
Open Educational Resources, past & future (1/3) Three interesting papers about open educational resources are discussed this week in the course “Introduction to Open Education”, given by David Wiley. These papers, although partly overlapping, show some interesting facts about OER, motivation, production, copyright, and all other related issues, as well as some compelling ideas and...
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Creative Commies, Gates and Marx
An interesting picture below this text, addressing Bill Gates’ argument that copyright reformers are today’s communists … well Bill, to explain it in the words of Karl Marx: “In the social production of their life, men enter into definite relations that are indispensable and independent of their will, relations of production which correspond to a definite stage of...
Horizon Report 2007 NMC
The horizon report gives a nice overview of trends in education and technology. clipped from www.nmc.org As it does each year, the Horizon Advisory Board again reviewed key trends in the practice of teaching, learning, and creativity, and ranked those it considered most important for campuses to watch. Trends were identified through a careful analysis of interviews, articles, papers, and...
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OLCOS Roadmap 2012 - Skills
In this authorative report on Open Educational Resources, education, and other related issues, skills for knowledge workers are discussed (amongst other things). Professional skills needed in a knowledge economy are acquired by using interactive, collaborative, and constructive tools as weblogs and wikis. The reason I am now blogging, and more or less used to it, is because of a course given by...
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Animoto video
I just tried the online video service http://animoto.com … it makes impressing videos of your photos, in less than 5 minutes. Nice..
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OpenEd: Week 1 - The right on education and Open...
I have found a reason for blogging: David Wiley’s course on Open Education. Although it somewhat interferes with my thesis, it also enriches my knowledge about the subject. And since my thesis is about “open educational resources”, it might even be enriched by this course. This week’s assignment is about the “Right on education”. The text below is an answer on the following questions. “In your...
