Week 11: Open Education and Learning Objects
The Learning Objects Literature (Wiley, 12 pages)
RIP-ping on learning objects (Wiley, 3 pages)
Openness, Localization, and the Future of Learning Objects (Wiley, 36 minutes)
Recording from David Wiley’s session at The Future of Education Online Conference
Week 13: The Future of Open Education
The OpenCourseWars (Wiley, 13 pages)
Week 15: Wrap Up
Blog your overall [...]
Week 9: Elective Reading Synopses David’s recommended books:
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (Benkler)
Coase’s Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm (Benkler)
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (Easterly)
An overview of the book
Chapter with the title “Educated for What?” (…wanted to learn more)
Education [...]
Week 8: Economic Models of Open Education Common Wisdom: Peer Production of Educational Materials Print version (Benkler, 32 pages)
Advancing Sustainability of Open Educational Resources (Koohang and Harman, 10 pages)
On the Sustainability of Open Educational Resource Initiatives in Higher Education (Wiley, 20 pages)
Models for Sustainable Open Educational Resources (Downes, 16 pages)
Interviews with:
Gary Lopez
Eric Frank
QUESTIONS: How can [...]
Week 7: Licensing Open Educational Resources Creative Commons (Watch the top 4 videos) see also: CC Origins, in Italian (1 Video)
GNU Free Documentation License (FSF, 6 pages)
Free content tutorial (Various, 12 pages)
WikiEducator: Memoirs, myths, misrepresentations and the magic (Mackintosh, 10 pages)
Reasons Not to Use a Creative Commons -NC License (Möller, 9 pages)
Open educational resources and [...]
Week 6: Background Readings in Copyright and the Public DomainCopyright Basics (Carroll, 9 pages)
Public domain (Various, 10 pages)
Against Perpetual Copyright (Lessig, 8 pages)
An Interview with Lawrence Lessig on Copyrights (Lessig, 5 pages)
Bound by Law (Aoki, Boyle, and Jenkins, 76 pages)
Value of the public domain (Pollock, 18 pages)
Forever minus a day? Some theory and empirics of [...]
Week 5: Example Open Education Projects Open University (UK) Open Content Initiative
I’m evaluating two courses:
a) Living with the internet: learning on line
Learning online is one of the great advantages of information technology. This unit will help you establish a safe and comfortable working environment to ensure that your study time at the computer screen does [...]
