By Joshua Kim. 1. Is open online learning the new journal?
2. Is open online learning the new conference?
3. Is the creation and running of a MOOC the new way to plant a thought leadership flag. Read more...
8 septembre 2015
6 septembre 2015
OpenShot: Open Source Video Editor
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. OpenShot: Open Source Video Editor
Christopher Whittum, Energize Education Through Open Source, 2015/08/31
This is a review of an open source alternative to Premiere or Microsoft Movie Maker. It's called OpenShot and the only real drawback is that it is only available for Fedora and Ubuntu Linux - though if you're using an open source video editor you probably already use Linux. More...
6 septembre 2015
Penn professors teach millions of students worldwide through Open Learning classes
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. While Penn professors teaching Open Learning classes have to dedicate a lot of their time and resources to millions of online learners, the opportunity to contribute to the future of education is incentive enough. More...
6 septembre 2015
5 ways to expand federal educational OER
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. In a letter sent earlier this month, a group of ed-tech stakeholders urged the Obama administration to make federally-funded educational materials available as Open Educational Resources (OER). More...
30 août 2015
Student success in open, distance and e-learning
By Karen MacGregor. Student success is crucial to the purposes of open, distance and e-learning – but challenging to achieve compared with selective post-secondary systems – a study for the International Council for Open and Distance Education, or ICDE, found. Read more...
30 août 2015
Knewton Launches Open Adaptive Learning Platform
Knewton on Wednesday opened its doors to what the company called the "world’s first and only open adaptive learning platform," making its technology broadly available to instructors and students. Read more...
29 août 2015
Open texts predicted to save students $25 million
Rice-based nonprofit adds open textbook titles for algebra and trigonometry, college algebra, chemistry. More...
28 août 2015
Open Educational Resources and Creative Commons
Eliademy started with a mission to democratize education with technology. How do you democratize education on a global scale? There are multiple paths that one can take but some basics need to be there. One of them is the availability of ready materials and educational resources that teachers can easily take into use. More...
28 août 2015
Registration open for a seminar in the Netherlands on OEP applied to minority languages
The LangOER project will organise the seminar “Open Learning in Minority Languages: Chances and Perspectives” on 7-8 October 2015 in Leeuwarden (the Netherlands). More...
24 août 2015
Module on open education: policy, accreditation by George Siemens #openEd
By Inge Ignatia de Waard. This is a course I saw passing by, that I just cannot keep in my mail box, as it might be of interest to many. It is however a paid for course organised by Athabasca University (yeah!). But if you are interested in a short cut to know all about open education through great content, shares, as well as direction and guidance by a great researcher: consider registering. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)