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OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Feb 09, 2017
How will education change in the next 10 years?
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This is a question thread on Quora which has just been
graced by Salman Khan, founder of the Khan Academy. Khan
predicts the rise of mastery-based learning,
competency-based credentials, and alternative and clearer
career paths. It's not wrong, per se, but it feels like a
very incomplete picture to me. There's a number of other
responses as well which make for interesting reading.
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MOOCs and Open Educational Resources: A Handbook for
Educators
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This is a longish guide (60 page PDF) outlining MOOCs for
instructors and (mostly) developers. There are long
sections devoted to video and open licensing, which I
consider to be the least important aspects of a MOOC.
Interesting terminology half way through - "a Massive
Really Open Online Course—a MROOC" (which would
distinguish it from a merely open online course, I guess).
Vie OER Knowledge Cloud
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If content is king, why are OER still uncrowned? A
developing world perspective’
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This is a conference presentation from 2010 which was
listed in the OER Knowledge Cloud today (10 page PDF
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So it's a bit dated but it's well written and I felt it was
a pretty good description of some fundamental trends and
issues in open educational resources. The prize you get for
reading it to the end is this redefinition of OER: "The
phenomenon of OER/OLR is an empowerment process,
facilitated by technology in which various types of
stakeholders are able to interact, collaborate, create and
use materials and processes, that are freely available, for
enhancing access, reducing costs and improving the quality
of education at all levels."
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A Growing (But Controversial) Idea in Open-Access
Textbooks: Let Students Help Write Them
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I've promoted the idea of having students author learning
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but not surprisingly the idea hasn't caught on. It won't
catch on after this article either but each voice in
support is a tiny step forward. The article describes
physics teacher Delman Larsen's project called LibreText
https://chem.libretexts.org/" target="_blank in which his
students write the wiki-like textbook. Jessica Coppola,
another professor doing the same thing, has a very
practical reason for doing so. “I commonly have
students who are homeless, students who have to choose
between feeding their child and buying a textbook,”
she says. “I had to find a way to get them a free
resource.”
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