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• Great expectations for e-learning in 2010

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 503
  © 2007 Index Funds Advisors, Inc. In the Globe and Mail on December 19, Leah McLaren wrote: ‘We are living in an Era of Perpetual Advice – and almost none of it is any good….the truth is, if you had a monkey throwing darts, you’d have a better chance of predicting the future.’ OK – so you can’t ...
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• Online knowledge organizes itself better than educators can do it

  
  Golden Swamp — Authority: 114
  A recent GoldenSwamp.com post posits how knowledge for learning is growing as a superorganism from which everyone on earth can learn . That superorganism is a network that lives within the open internet. The first image (above) sketches how the learning mind, which is a network, can directly apprehend patterns of ...
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• Yes U R

  
  Authspot — Authority: 548
  Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia   Yes U R U r what U r   And all world’s   Women,   Eligible ones   Not gullible ones   Now know   Who u r   Really are   U r   This verse is a ...
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• Educational nodes need to signal like our bacteria do

  
  Golden Swamp — Authority: 114
  Since the late 1990s, when I was working with education study subjects that were then pouring in to the internet, I have been convinced that what is known by humankind would form a “grand idea” online. By that, I have meant a large network, fully interconnected, of all the subjects we know — what we call ...
  5 days ago

• Six priorities for Canadian e-learning in 2010

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 535
  Tony Bates offers six items as his wish list for Canadian higher education in 2010. They include: 1. Certification for post-secondary teaching. 2. Establishment of (at least one) hybrid digital university. 3. Establishment of a Canadian open content consortium 4. The development of educational apps for mobile ...
  6 days ago

• Yes You Would

  
  Authspot — Authority: 548
  Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia   Yes You Would   Only positive thinkers Ever find Or else all inventions Would have been nought As no one would have proceeded After assured failures Behind the veil of failure You shall find What you wanted to find Silently smiling back at you   ...
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• Signaling cells show education how to use online resources

  
  Golden Swamp — Authority: 114
  Placing OER (open educational resources) online without optimizing their components to signal is like expecting a single cell or group of cells to perform their role in isolation. Yet educators and subject experts put non-signaling lesson plans, courses, and curricula into the internet all the time. This was not ...
  6 days ago

• Shuttleworth Foundation on CC BY

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 139
  Jane Park at Creative Commons has posted an interview with Karien Bezuidenhout, Chief Operating Officer at the Shuttleworth Foundation. From the post: Well, I think, to begin with, we were open to the commercial angle because in the greater Shuttleworth group we’re the only nonprofit entity. We’ve got venture ...
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• Guide to OCW Consortium

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 139
  Rachael Holtz at CollegeStats.org has posted a “guide” to the OCW Consortium. From the post: The OCW strives to build a network of colleges that offer free and open digital publication of high-quality educational materials organized as courses. Over 200 higher-education institutions currently are cooperating in ...
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• Open Textbooks Alleged to be “Grave Concern”

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 139
  Geraldine “Tincy” Miller has posted arguing against a bill in Texas to use open textbooks. From the post: The effects of this bill run deep. It will eliminate materials that are aligned with state standards and will allow questionable resources into the system that will be there for years to come.
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• Six priorities for Canadian e-learning in 2010

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 503
  © Wikipedia Summary of my priorities 1. A requirement for all newly appointed full-time instructors in public Canadian post-secondary educational institutions to have a formal certification in teaching in post-secondary education, to be in place by September 2012. This would include both pedagogical and ...
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• The arriving choice for poor kids in inferior schools

  
  Golden Swamp — Authority: 114
  This week, Congress voted to end a proven program that was sending achieving District of Columbia students to private schools where they were successful students. The Washington Post headline called it ‘Duplicitous and Shameful’ in a report that begins : The waiting is finally over for some of the District of ...
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• Talis Angel Fund Deadline Extended

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 139
  Chris Clarke at Talis Education is announcing that the deadline for funding proposals has been extended to Jan. 31. From the post: If you’ve already submitted, and would have benefited from more time, don’t worry – you can resubmit at any time up to the new deadline – just resend your proposal to ...
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• University Prepress at Open University

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 139
  Tony Hirst has a new post suggesting that the Open University start a prepress. From the post: Given that the OU is a publication house, publishing research and teaching materials as a way of generating income, I wonder if there is an opportunity for the Library to support the research publication process providing ...
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• Future of Open Libraries

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 139
  Last month Jessica Pryde published an article on the future of open libraries in the November issue of Open and Library Class Journal . From the article: This paper will discuss the current state of open educational resources and the potential of a universal over-arching initiative containing materials produced ...
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• Solipsis: Welcome to the Metaverse

  
  P2P Foundation — Authority: 490
  Solipsis is an online 3D game-type world - not dissimilar to more well known virtual worlds such as Second Life, Eve Online or World of Warcraft.  Not dissimilar but also totally different…  Let me explain - they are similar in the sense that both Solipsis and the examples above are 3D worlds that users can ...
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• Dreaming the Dream

  
  Simple Pleasures part 4 — Authority: 103
  The Dream Realised (courtesy of me) Some great news just in at Channel 4 HQ – the Big 4 sculpture on the doorstep of the Richard Rogers designed home of C4 has been given an extension of 5 years by the planning department of Westminster City Council. The public artwork – a 50-foot-high metal ‘4′ – ...
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• Mellon Foundation “Merges” RIT Program

  
  iterating toward openness — Authority: 459
  I received a communication from the Mellon Foundation today announcing that they’re “merging” the Research in Information Technology Program (RIT) with their Scholarly Communications Program, and that Ira and Chris are both leaving the Mellon Foundation. I won’t attempt to second guess why the restructuring is ...
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• Network laws emerge the true and unbiased as peer review falters

  
  Golden Swamp — Authority: 114
  Open online science emerges to make prominent the links loved by experts and inquirers. This new selection process is a gift of the internet that is fundamentally superior to peer review by a selected few of articles before they are published. To illustrate how network laws affect online study subjects, I keep posting ...
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• Open textbooks in More Than 400 Colleges

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 139
  Dana Oshiro at ReadWriteWeb is reporting that Flat World Knowledge is being used in over 400 colleges. From the post: As of this coming September, more than 40,000 college students at more than 400 colleges will access the publisher’s e-learning services and textbooks.
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