The MITx Factor
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology ended 2011 with a grand announcement: It would broadcast massive, open online courses — equal in rigor to its on-campus offerings — to tens of thousands of...
View Article3 Major Publishers Sue Open-Education Textbook Start-Up
Open-education resources have been hailed as a trove of freely available information that can be used to build textbooks at virtually no cost. But a copyright lawsuit filed last month presents a...
View ArticleOpen learning conference showcases Open University Bridge to Success project
The Open University’s international Open Learning: Bridge to Success (B2S) pilot project will be featured in a speech by OU speakers at open educational resource conference, Cambridge 2012, at the...
View ArticleFrom proprietary to personalized higher education – how OER takes...
Abstract Present trends in the mainstream adoption of educational technology coupled to the increased acceptance and adoption of openness in terms of sharing resources and open access force higher...
View ArticleBringing Open Education to the Mainstream
Large-scale open education initiatives, like M.I.T.’s OpenCourseWare or Rice University’s Connexions, have the potential to change the landscape of higher education by creating a learning community...
View ArticlePBS Offers Expansive Slate of New Programming
Programs Traverse the Globe with New Arts Specials, a Major New Series, Gavel-to-Gavel Convention Coverage, Independent Films, and a Celebration of British CulturePBSPress Release
View ArticleHarvard and MIT Put $60-Million Into New Platform for Free Online Courses
The group of elite universities offering free online courses just got bigger. Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today announced a partnership that will host online...
View ArticleGroups Team Up to Turn Free Online Courses Into Cheap College Credit
The Saylor Foundation has been building an online catalog of free, self-paced college courses since 2010. But students who completed those courses could not typically earn credit toward a degree, since...
View ArticleNew York Times to Suspend Online-Education Program
The New York Times is bowing out of the online-education business just as a growing number of colleges are putting their own courses on the Web. Knowledge Network, the distance-learning initiative...
View ArticleOnline Mentors to Guide Women Into the Sciences
Hundreds of prominent women working in science, technology, engineering and math will become online mentors for college students next month, part of a six-week program to encourage young women to...
View ArticleInteractive Educational Television in the Amazon
According to figures from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, “Countries will need an extra 1.6 million teachers to achieve universal primary education by 2015 and 3.3 million by 2030″. The 2013/4...
View ArticleIndia suffers doubly due to lack of open access
Developing nations, especially India, increasingly face a challenge in prioritising their goals. One that has become increasingly relevant in this context, in the age of open knowledge, is the...
View ArticlePBS Announces Sizzling Summer Season Lineup
ARLINGTON, VA; April 10, 2014 — PBS announced today a summer schedule of programming spanning generations and genres. From examinations of our nation’s history to our connections to the animal kingdom,...
View ArticleEarly learning, assisted by technology
VINCI’s model combines hands-on, experiential learning with software that identifies early learning gaps While students are working on activities, the software analyzes their progress—helping teachers...
View ArticlePublic Expenditure in Education in Latin America. Recommendations to Serve...
In this paper, the authors identify and analyze public policy and the investment and expenditure that the governments of Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay and Uruguay commit to make in the...
View ArticleOpen informational ecosystems: The missing link for sharing resources for...
Open educational resources are not available “as such”. Their provision relies on a technological infrastructure of related services that can be described as an informational ecosystem. A closed...
View ArticleCapacity-building in open education: an Australian approach
Addressing the gap between global open educational resource (OER) proliferation and the slow adoption of OER and open educational practices (OEP) in Australian higher education, this paper focuses on a...
View ArticleThe Open Library at AU (Athabasca University): Supporting Open Access and...
To address challenges that learners, course creators, librarians and academics involved with OER and MOOCs are facing when looking for scholarly materials, Athabasca University Library has initiated...
View ArticleMobile and Accessible Learning for MOOCs
Many modern web-based systems provide a ‘responsive’ design that allows material and services to be accessed on mobile and desktop devices, with the aim of providing ubiquitous access. Besides offering...
View ArticleMOOCs and The Silicon Valley Narrative
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have generated considerable media interest, more than other education initiatives such as Open Education Resources (OERs). In this article the author argues that...
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