September 23, 2007, [MD]
A Review of the Open Educational Resources (OER) Movement: Achievements, Challenges, and New Opportunities (Atkins, Brown, and Hammond, 80 pages)
OLI - pedagogical approach, lot’s of interactive tools - supposed to be used to teach a course, adapted by instructor, introductory huge classes… can be self-learner too
success disaster - a teacher has access to 100 undergrad calculus courses\ this has had a major impact on Chinese education - top ten universities integrate 100s of MIT courses into their teaching (really? how can they make such a statement without any kind of source?)
situate OER not as separate from the courseware for enrolled students, but as a marginal cost derivative of material that is there anyway
what is developing? the real definition isn’t country by country, but urban vs rural.\ open participatory learning infrastructure OPLI
elearning using cellphones in developing countries\ computer games - immersive learning, AI tutors
*each of centers of learning are practicums, but are they reflective practicums. Are they evaluating what they do and engaging in anything resembling cycles of continuous improvement? Are their reflections being captured and shared? Somehow we need to construct a shared, distributed, reflective practicum—where experiences are being collected, vetted, clustered, commented on, tried out in new contexts, and so on.\ *\ connecting students with lab tools through the net. fab labs.
Stian Håklev September 23, 2007 Toronto, Canada comments powered by Disqus