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Trip to China
I got back from an Open Education conference in Dalian, China a couple days ago. Dalian is the most popular tourist city for the Chinese, but you’ve probably never heard of it. Funny how little we know...
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CourseFeed + OpenCourseWare = Personal Learning Environment?
Yesterday I spoke to Jayson and Rich from ClassTop about CourseFeed, their Facebook app that connects users to other course members and course content. This includes a shared “course wall” and “course...
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Links from my AECT seminar: Web2.0 to support teaching and learning
Thanks to all who participate in this seminar! I hope it was helpful. Some great ideas and links were shared today as we discussed the components that make up Web2.0. Here are the presentation slides....
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Something’s gone terrible right with CourseFeed…
If you like OpenCourseWare and Facebook, you need to check out CourseFeed. CourseFeed started out as a virtual classroom app that supported Blackboard announcements and content, but it is growing into...
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OER Access and Accessibility Session Live and on Twitter!
I will be conducting a panel session on OER access and accessibility in about an hour. It will run from 11:15am to 12:45pm CDT (UTC/GMT -5 hours). If you are not present at the OCWC Conference in...
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USU OpenCourseWare is a Virtual Visitor’s Center
I’ve been talking to several schools about how they fund their OpenCourseWare programs. The more I do, the more I see that most OCWs are simply not going to make money. That is not their aim. So what...
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Free Samples – USU OpenCourseWare is a Virtual Visitor’s Center: Part 2
David Wiley left a comment on my last post about USU OpenCourseWare sustainability that sparked a new post. David’s comment: I think the problem of the moment is that every person on campus is asking,...
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Looking back at Open Ed 2010, looking forward to 2011
Today I reviewed some presentations from Open Ed 2010 and thought about the last several years of the Open Education movement. Here are a couple clips from the Barcelona conference, starting with a...
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Where are your courses, Mr. Most Accessible?
It may seem strangely ironic that a project like the Open Course Library received the People’s Choice award for “most accessible” since our finished product is not yet available. (If it’s so...
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