OpenEd week 15: Wrap Up December 5, 2007

Overall feelings about the course: the Italian Group has worked on a shared document.
On the content side, what did you learn?
I learned a lot about free culture and open content phylosophy and practice.
 How will you use it after the class is over?
I designed ScribaLAB two years ago, this course has made it appeared to me as if [...]

OpenEd -Week 10 cross-blogging November 4, 2007

I found quite useful the idea of Megan to gather and updating the book reviews during this week.
It really fits my need of the usual ‘Work in progress’ modality I adopted to follow this Course.
Books Reviewed
Free Culture (Lessig)
Commented on by: Elisa, Emanuela, Greg, Silvana (Me)
Coase’s Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm (Benkler)
Commented [...]

OpenEd week 10 to 15 October 28, 2007

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 [...]

OpenEd week 6 -work in progress October 11, 2007

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 [...]

OpenEd Weeks 2, 3 and 4 September 23, 2007

 Week 2: Background Readings in Open Education
Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources   (OECD, 147 pages)
Week 3: Background Readings in Open Education
Open Educational Practices and Resources: OLCOS Roadmap 2012   (OLCOS, 149 pages)
Week 4: Background Readings in Open Education
A Review of the Open Educational Resources (OER) Movement: Achievements, Challenges, and New Opportunities   (Atkins, [...]