Postato in Insegnare, OpenEd, contrassegnato da tag courseware, OLPC, Open Education il giorno Gennaio 10, 2008 | Non ci sono Commenti »
The bad one: One Laptop Per Child initiative ($100 laptop to reduce the digital divide) is struggling
The good one: online university courses offered at MIT are a big hit
Postato in OpenEd, contrassegnato da tag LTEver, OER, Open Education, WEB 2.0 il giorno Dicembre 9, 2007 | Non ci sono Commenti »
At the beginning I was hoping to improve my background in OER issues.
The course met this expectation, definitely, and it turned out also to be a great experience!
It allowed me to
to get a background in the field of open education
to know available repositories of OER
to know friends sharing similar commitments in the field of education
to [...]
Postato in OpenEd, contrassegnato da tag Open Education, openness il giorno Dicembre 2, 2007 | Non ci sono Commenti »
Poor post on cross-blogging, just overloaded. However, I read many of your posts: I’m learning so much from you. Thank you also for the appreciation expressed in comments to may last post. Indeed, the basic idea was to adopt openness in any respect. The feedback is great, it sounds like a kind of principle: the [...]
Postato in OpenEd, contrassegnato da tag blog, contribuire, feed, Open Education, RSS, trib, valutazione, WEB 2.0 il giorno Novembre 29, 2007 | 5 Commenti »
Really enjoyed Wiley’s close:
… embrace the trib culture sooner than later. Higher education doesn’t have to remain stuck in its traditional R/O ways … I would beg those early pioneer to open their eyes to what was happening all around them (on YouTube, on Flickr, on Wikipedia, and the other pioneers of the trib’ing movement) [...]
Postato in OpenEd il giorno Novembre 19, 2007 | Non ci sono Commenti »
Answering some comments to my last post.
@ Anto
Andreas, I do not completely agree with you about “control and hierarchy seen in opposition to open resources.In the case of LOs, “control” may simply mean “technical specifications”. Also in the Open Source software there are several examples of standardization but open sofware remains… open! …
I understand that [...]
Postato in OpenEd il giorno Novembre 15, 2007 | 8 Commenti »
I’m very sorry to be so late but I’m too busy with my students. The approach based on blogging we are using in the Open Education course and that I’m trying to apply in my courses is great but with so many students it may be difficult sometimes. By the way, it is curious to [...]
Postato in OpenEd il giorno Novembre 3, 2007 | 1 Commento »
The reflection weeks are a great idea! Now we have time to read the other participants posts. I believe this is particularly appreciated by those that are not full time students; even more by those that, being involved in some kind of teaching, are very busy right in the same time period. Personally, I learn [...]
Postato in OpenEd il giorno Ottobre 29, 2007 | 1 Commento »
Wikinomics, written by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams points to a number of surprising business stories that nobody would have foreseen before 2000.
It is, in some way, on the optimistic side with respect to Thomas Friedman’s The world is flat. For instance, T&A argue that Friedman sees free software but not the multibillion-dollar ecosystem [...]
Postato in OpenEd il giorno Ottobre 22, 2007 | 9 Commenti »
I missed the deadline yesterday. Why? I’m too busy with my students blogs! Learning by doing, isn’t it?
They are 33 so far but potential bloggers in this class could be some 100 … will I cope with this workload? Just trying …
Economic aspects of OER. Interesting readings, useful for improving my lacking background. However, too [...]
Postato in OpenEd il giorno Ottobre 14, 2007 | Non ci sono Commenti »
Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong.
Albert Einstein
Copyright philosophy is deeply flawed at the very beginning.
Laws should protect [...]
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