This white paper from California State University, East Bay, presents a bold new paradigm for transforming education–a Virtual Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) University employing an open learning ecosystem that offers partners in business and education a pivotal opportunity and means to collaborate in rethinking, reimagining, and reengineering teaching, learning, and educational delivery systems to address the needs of the region’s employers, students, and communities.
A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age
January 24, 2013EdSurge discusses a Bill of Rights and Principles, newly developed by a group of people passionate about learning, serving today’s students, and using every available tool to respond better to the needs of students in a global, interactive, digitally connected world....
Digital Content: What Does the Future Hold for Education Systems?
January 23, 2013GETideas.org hosted this GooglePlus hangout on the future of digital content. The online discussion featured a panel of education experts, including Nicole Allen, affordable-textbooks advocate, Student PIRGS; Una Daly, communication college outreach director, OpenCourseWare Consortium; and Cable Green, director of global...
Explaining Inequalities in School Achievement: A Realist Analysis
January 22, 2013In Explaining Inequalities in School Achievement, author Roy Nash argues that a realist framework for the sociological explanation of educational group differences can, and must be, constructed. A move to such an explanatory framework will allow society to take into account the...
Education 3.0: Seven Steps to Better Schools
January 14, 2013In Education 3.0: Seven Steps to Better Schools, renowned educator and technology expert Jim Lengel provides a refreshing and hopeful picture of what schools should look like, including a groundbreaking seven-step process for envisioning and building them that draws on the...
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April 22, 2011
This video features Joel Duffin of OER Glue, presenting via Skype at the Open Nottingham Seminar 2011, an international event examining open educational resources (OER) and the influence they have on teaching and learning.
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March 16, 2011
This piece from THE Journal discusses Salman Khan and how the Khan Academy aims to change the way we think about the delivery of educational content to students, including the piloting of Khan Academy in traditional classroom settings.
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March 9, 2011
In this TED Talk, Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script–to give students video lectures to watch at home, and to give “homework” in the classroom with the teacher available to help.
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March 4, 2011
The Open Education blog digs deep into defining and detailing “digital natives” and “digital learners,” as well as the relevancy of these labels in the context of education.
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March 4, 2011
The Teaching Master delivers info on and links to 50 open courseware classes that teachers can use to improve their skills and find creative ways to interact with their students. Course categories include general teaching, administration, child development, special education, ed tech, core curriculum, and teaching with the arts.
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March 4, 2011Acknowledging MIT OpenCourseWare’s 10th anniversary, ReadWriteWeb looks at the organization’s ambitious roadmap for the next decade, which includes the goal of expanding its reach ten-fold “to reach a billion minds.”
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March 4, 2011eCampus News presents an overview of bold predications for the open-courseware movement in higher education.
