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Harvard Uses Vimeo To Bring Students’ Course Choice To Life
Harvard University has taken an innovative approach to producing course syllabuses by producing videos of professors speaking in detail about the syllabus for the semester, and uploading them to Vimeo.
http://www.simplyzesty.com/technology/harvard-uses-vimeo-to-bring-students-course-choice-to-life/…
MIT Announces Platform for Free Online Courses
MIT is planning to launch an open platform for free online classes, complete with certification for those who demonstrate mastery of their topics.
http://mashable.com/2011/12/19/mit-announces-platform-for-free-online-courses/…
Building Your Own Textbook: How digital content helps teachers customize textbooks
Textbooks are a multi-billion dollar industry. But the growing availability of digital content and open educational resources (OER) is giving schools the opportunity to bypass some of the traditional expenses of textbook purchasing. It’s also giving teachers the opportunities to …
Open Courses, Open Teaching, This Is Dangerous
What if teaching tools were no longer packaged and sold, but digitally created together for free use?
Presentation of the Week: Open Online Courses: A Model for Connected Learning
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Open Education Is Transforming the Way We Learn
A interview with Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus of Communication and the founding director of the Center for Online Learning, Research and Service at the University of Illinois at Springfield.
A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources (OER)
A useful document produced by UNESCO on Open Educational Resources.
… Video of the Week: Open Education and the Future
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100 Intro Open Courses on Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Learn
While the classes you take through online college are a great resource, you can augment your learning by taking some time to see what entirely free courses are out there offered by universities. Here are 100 open courses that are
Open Educational Resources: The implications for educational development (SEDA)
Dave Cormier questions some underlying presumptions of resource repositories in this examination of open educational resources (OERs). “There is a presumption in traditional learning design that a given trainer is somehow going to be able to divine the needs of …