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How to learn with MOOCs and choose the right ones

How to learn with MOOCs and choose the right ones

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There is a thread that starts from the sharing of educational reources (oer), passes through the open online courses (OpenCourseWare) and get up to the MOOC. MOOC means Massive Online Open Courses, often offered by large and prestigious universities for free. The first experiments of  open online course and with large numbers of students  go back into 2008 (# cck08) and were focused on the interaction amongs online students. One of the interesting aspects was the exploration of models for online education based on multiple…

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School of Open
The School of Open

The School of Open

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[:en]The School of Open has launched! Take a free online course on copyright, CC licenses, Wikipedia, open science, open culture, open video formats, and more at http://schoolofopen.org/. Especially check out this course:Get a CC license. Put it on your website. Read more about the launch athttp://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/37179.[:]

[OER in Italy] Take part in a European Survey on OER and OEP

[OER in Italy] Take part in a European Survey on OER and OEP

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[:it]Segnalo questa indagine sul tema delle OER/OEP a cura del progetto OPAL [The OPAL Initiative is a partnership between seven organizations including the ICDE, UNESCO, European Foundation for Quality, the Open University UK, Aalto University and the Catholic University Portugal. It is led by the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany and partly funded by the European Commission.] ============ OPAL is producing a quantitative study on the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Educational Practices (OEP) in Higher Education and…

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Open Education Resources: Conversation in Cyberspace

Open Education Resources: Conversation in Cyberspace

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[:en]In quality of member of the OER Unesco community, I am very happy to know about this publication from UNESCO. The book brings together the background papers and reports from the first three years of activities in the community. From the press release: Education systems today face two major challenges: expanding thereach of education and improving its quality. Traditional solutionswill not suffice, especially in the context of today’s knowledgeintensive societies. Open Educational Resources offer one solution for extending learning opportunities….

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Mozilla Open Education Course – 2

Mozilla Open Education Course – 2

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[:en] The discussion is going on on the list of the course also in a distributed way through twitter, the participants blogs, the wiki course. We had some troubles with the webex solutions for the live conferences (only audio, slides and chat) so I discovered the Openvideoconference. I discovered the Flatknowledge project, a wonderful idea of open source publishing: “Flat World would become a publisher—commission, edit, and peer review the books—but it would give its titles away free on the…

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Mozilla Open Education Course – 3 – My Blueprint

Mozilla Open Education Course – 3 – My Blueprint

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We, as participant of the Mozilla course, are requested to produce a Blueprint as assignment.Everyone is trying to think something useful for the educational community. My proposal arise fromt the consideration of language barriers in the OER community: the english (and spanish, too) speaking people could access many educational resources, open or semi-open, but for italian language (and I suppose also for many other languages in the world) things are very different.So, in my opinion the question is, how we…

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Mozilla Open Education Course – 1

Mozilla Open Education Course – 1

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[:en] I was very happy that my application to theOpen Education promoted by the Mozilla Foundation, ccLearn and P2PU (Peer2Peer University) was accepted. The course content were organized in three areas: open license, open technology and open pedagogy. It was requested to propose a project idea to participate to the course: at the end of course, we have to prepare a blueprint related to the proposed idea. Here the list of participant: for each of us, a bref description and…

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Federica, the first Italian higher education project for OER

Federica, the first Italian higher education project for OER

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Federica , a comprehensive e-learning portal established in 2007 at Federico II University in Naples, Italy, is launching its release 2.0 on Friday March 13th, 2009, «Our public University mission”-  explained Guido Trombetta, Federico II President  ”convinced us to avoid any password or other limitations to knowledge access. Each individual can access the entire scientific and education content provided on Federica   to study and research, to deepen his/her own learning or professional interests. » After five years of research and…

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the internet librarian

the internet librarian

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[:it]Universal online access to all knowledge may not be “a goal that is going to be finished in our lifetime,” says Mr Kahle. “But if you pick a goal far enough out, people can align to it. I am not interested in building an empire. Our idea is to build the future.” [Brewster Kahle, archivist and idealist] [:]

Trends in education and organization models

Trends in education and organization models

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[:en] On December 3rd, 2008 I made a presentation for elearning 2.0 initiative at ITC/ILO. There were about 20 persons coming from different parts of the world (from Ivory Coast to Uruguay,from Malesia tu Uganda, Ghana, South Africa…). My presentation was about the trends of education and organization models. You can find my slideshow on slideshare. I would make a special thanks to professor David Wiley as I used a part of one of his presentation on slideshare, called Openness…

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