I signed up for my first P2PU course this term, Open Governance, facilitated by Philipp Schmidt (and a host of helpers). Although I’ve been deeply involved with P2PU from the beginning, this is actually the first time I am “whole-heartedly” taking a course (I have been following along on many though). Probably the reasons I [...]

In addition to defining the concept of OER, and introducing a taxonomy of OER projects based on their purposes, I also introduce my theoretical framework from comparative education in the literature review. I begin by describing how international the OpenCourseWare concept has become: At the 2008 Open CourseWare Consortium conference in Dalian, China, representatives from [...]

This part of my thesis is based on a framework that I have gradually developed over the last year and a half. It began with reading Mike Caulfield’s blog post Openness as reuse, and openness as transparency, where he contrasted the purposes of MIT OpenCourseWare and CMU’s Open Learning Initiative. Interestingly, this was inspired by [...]

Since I want to discuss the Chinese Top Level Courses Project as a form of Open Educational Resources (whether it is or not, is up for discussion), I need to introduce the term, and talk a bit about my understanding of the term. Open Educational Resources (OER) is a term used for any educational material [...]

I have been thinking a lot about what would be the ideal file format for for example dissertations. The dissertations category is a nice example, because the institutions have basically complete control – they can ask you to do whatever they want, to graduate, and you will do it. For example, my institutions require that [...]

I start my MA thesis with the example of a Chinese open course which looks deceptively similar to an MIT OpenCourseWare course, or an OpenCourseWare course in Japan, or Israel. In 2003, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) launched its OpenCourseWare website, which eventually came to contain online resources for virtually every course taught at the [...]

The research I have detailed my trajectory into the Open Educational Resources movement many times on this blog, starting with the iCommons summit in Dubrovnik in 2007, and the Intro to Open Education course facilitated by David Wiley that fall. In addition to bringing me into contact with the people and ideas that would eventually [...]