Category — OpenCourseWare

We found that trying to concoct one list of the digital commons success stories was simply beyond the scope of our small site. The number of truly noteworthy developments is large and growing more substantial by the day, each new venture seemingly offering yet additional opportunities for further growth.
In fact, it is precisely as […]

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Attempting to build on the success of their summer program, the Google Summer of Code, Google has announced another effort to entice young people into greater open source development.
The Google Highly Open ParticipationTM Contest seeks to encourage young people to participate in open source. Google is working with ten open source organizations that have […]

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Today, you do not have to enter the hallowed halls of MIT to have access to an MIT education. At the MIT OpenCourse website, interested learners are now but a click of a mouse away from the curriculum of 1,800 courses offered at tone of the premiere educational institutions in America.
That means access to […]

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Yesterday we took a look at the concept of mobile learning. We began by providing a brief definition from the website on the website irrodl.orgthen started to assess what such technology offers for learning.
Clearly, the very opportunities provided by mobile learning create complexities and additional challenges for educators who are used to the traditional […]

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As the potential for technology to enhance learning grows, we often see the phrase mobile learning bandied about. Clearly, the term appears vague as the concept emerges, yet it does call to mind a simple question: How does mobile learning differ from online or distance learning options?
In order to understand the term let’s review the […]

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PBS’s MediaShift recently published an article highlighting leading open education and distance learning programs including

OpenLearn at the UK’s Open University
MIT OpenCourseWare
UC Berkeley on iTunes
Wikiversity

Already hundreds of collections exist online. As more information becomes available, navigation it is going to become a big issue. Students not only have to worry about financial decisions of college, but […]

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