In this post, I will introduce the development of OpenCourseWare projects in three Asian countries that are close to China both geographically and culturally. I will later use these examples to show why it was easy for foreigners to misunderstand the developments within China. Japan Already in 2002, researchers from the National Institute of Multimedia [...]

Initially there were no easy ways of finding out about the Chinese open courses, except for going to each individual university’s open course directory. There were some indices, but they were not very helpful. When the Top Level Courses Project was launched, there was no easy portal for discovering all the available courses. Each university [...]

Open Access Week is a great idea – now in its fourth year, it really enables communities to come together across the world to promote the concept of Open Access. Last year, we had a number of very successful events at University of Toronto, I gave a talk about institutional models for OER (video, Mp3, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

There is so much exciting going on at P2PU, that if I hadn’t been moving tomorrow, and if my MA thesis was not due in a week, I could have written many long posts. For now, I wanted to make a quick list of all the new courses – there is an official course listing [...]

The untiring Stephen Downes has a new course coming up, “Personal Learning Environments Networks and Knowledge 2010″. This topic interests me a great deal, and is also something I will probably be visiting in my PhD program, which I will begin in a few weeks. If this were a traditional course, I would not be [...]