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• SAIDE Launches OER Policy

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 140
  Tony Bates is reporting that OER Africa is now part of SAIDE (South African Association of Distance Education). As a result, SAIDE is now launching a new OER policy. From the post: SAIDE will become a member of the Open CourseWare Consortium and other relevant fora as appropriate in order to ensure that it becomes ...
  18 hours ago

• Author’s Perspective on Open Textbooks

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 140
  Last month OEN reported on a webinar regarding open textbooks. Slides (PDF) are now available from that presentation.
  18 hours ago

• Learning Arabic

  
  Learning Languages — Authority: 138
  But now it is easier than ever to master Arabic. Many Internet tools and resources are available today, and these can help with all of the aspects of grasping a new language, even Arabic. No question - there are challenges, certainly for those who are speakers of English. Contrasting with the Romantic and the ...
  21 hours ago

• A day with Will Richardson, Part 3

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 558
  Here is Part 3 of my notes from our day with Will Richardson . You also can see the live chat and/or follow the Twitter conversation and/or participate in EtherPad . We started with a visioning exercise (and accompanying discussion) Are we suffering from information overload or information overchoice? ...
  3 days ago

• 50 OpenCourseWare Courses For Web Designers

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 140
  Designer City, USA has posted 50 links to OpenCourseWare courses for web designers/developers. Thanks to Delicious50 for the link.
  3 days ago

• 21st Century Learning Plato’s Way

  
  K12 Online Conference 2009 — Authority: 134
  Presenter : Gail Dyer Location : Sydney, NSW, Australia Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page Presentation Title : 21st Century Learning Plato’s Way Presentation Description : This presentation provides a snapshot of web 2.0 and games based learning which have been implemented in our school and ...
  4 days ago

• Low use of web 2.0 in e-learning

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 588
  According to this report in the Chronicle, "Online education has grown in popularity, yet it remains dependent on learning-management systems, with content-delivery built around text." This statement is true only if you consider "online education" to be limited to that offered by traditional academic institutions, as ...
  4 days ago

• Teachers as Senior Education Leaders

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 588
  Revolutions that simply replace one set of leaders with another are never successful. For a revolution to succeed, you must change the people, not the leaders. It is this fact that those attempting to accomplish a revolution in education by changing the educational leaders do not grasp. Thats my view, anyways. John ...
  4 days ago

• Schools and Parents: a New Partnership?

  
  eFolio in the UK — Authority: 116
  Niel McLean, Executive Director, Becta, the government agency for technology in education discusses (November 2009) how technology supports a new relationship with schools. In his introduction he writes: "Good parental engagement is fundamental to children’s learning and closely linked to increased attainment. One ...
  4 days ago

• Sustainability For MIT OCW?

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 140
  Ryan T. Normandin has published an article through The Tech on the state of MIT OCW. Normandin reviews common arguments against MIT OCW and puts forth counter-arguments. From the article: MIT should continue to support OCW because it is the first step to promoting free public education at a higher level than grade ...
  5 days ago

• Ownership of Ideas and Teaching

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 140
  Jeffrey A. Tucker has a new post on intellectual property, teaching and influencing others. Tucker uses the experiences of Ayn Rand as an example. From the post: You can try this yourself with a friend. Talk for 15 minutes and then attempt to draw an ownership map of ideas. See if you can come to a consensus. Then ...
  5 days ago

• Top 10 Online Education Myths

  
  Online Education Blog — Authority: 118
  I’m sure you have heard them all before – don’t take classes online because it is not recognized by employers or don’t take online classes because it is not the same as traditional classroom programs. Well, I want to put your mind at ease; these ideas are simply not true. Do not believe everything you hear. If ...
  6 days ago

• Kaplan on Education

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 588
  Andrew B. Watt quite rightly takes Saul Kaplan to task for his rant on education posted in the Mass High Tech , the journal of technology in New England. Kaplan calls for "actionable platforms to enable real world experimentation for new education systems and solutions... [bringing] the voice of the student and ...
  6 days ago

• Growing Up Online

  
  The Teaching Box — Authority: 99
  A clip from the PBS documentary "Growing Up Online."  This was a really interesting documentary about todays Internet Generation. 
  6 days ago

• The Newest Free DreamBox Teacher – Tool Snap Blocks: Determining Equality™.

  
  Math Learning, Fun & Education Blog : Dreambox Learning — Authority: 109
  Since DreamBox released the first in our series of new free Teacher Tools last month we’ve had a remarkable interest in them, with hundreds of teachers using them in hundreds of lessons! The first in the series of DreamBox Teacher Tools we launched were the Quick Images: Identifying Amounts™ tools – a virtual ...
  6 days ago

• How to Fix Education - the Greatest National Security Crisis

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 588
  Honestly, I think the only way to fix education is to address the basis of society itself, because the educational system is, and must be, reflective of the society that creates it. And society, in order to support a robust educational system, must be based on reason and inference, not belief. Because with belief, you ...
  1 week ago

• eLearning Packages: Xerte

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 588
  Review of an open source e-learning authoring package called Xerte. It doesnt do a lot - just basic reading and quizzes. It is also, according to the review, a bit tricky to install (mostly because it requires the installation of XAMPP to simulate the web server environment it would normally run on). David Hopkins, ...
  1 week ago

• Views sought on ISO Metadata for Learning Resources

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 588
  Though to my mind much of the field has moved on, efforts to standardize learning object metadata continue. Sarah Currier writes, in an email, "The DC-Education Application Profile Task Group has been working with the ISO-MLR group who are developing Part 5 of the proposed new ISO standard for Metadata for Learning ...
  1 week ago

• Future of Mozilla Education

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 140
  “Hecker,” who is apparently affiliated with Mozilla Education, has a new post on the future of Mozilla Education and wonders what kind of projects are appropriate for 2010. From the post: In my opinion this is not so much a failing of the approach as it is a failing of academia: The schools that have been most ...
  1 week ago

• Otago Polytechnic and Openness

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 140
  Nigel Benson at Otago Daily Times has published an article on WikiEducator, the OER Foundation, and Otago Polytechnic’s efforts. From the article: “No learner should be denied access to an education because learning material is locked behind copyright or because people may not have the resources to pay for ...
  1 week ago

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