Alweer de derde editie van het trendrapport geschreven door de SIG Open Education. De vorige edities hadden nog als titel "Trendrapport OER". Deze editie hebben we aangepast naar Open Education. Dit past in een wereldwijde trend en geeft beter aan waar… more »
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The theme of the 2014 Conference of the OpenCourseWare Consortium is "Open Education for a Multicultural World". The conference will explore the international dimensions of open education, its diverse projects, new research, policy dimensions and impact… more »
Today, US Senators Durbin and Franken introduced the Affordable College Textbook Act for consideration by the US Senate. This act specifically supports the use of OER and open textbooks. From the press release:
Textbook costs are one of the most over… more »
This fall SURF Academy is organising a masterclass Open Educational Resources (OER). During the three-day masterclass you will get to know everything about Open Education, OER, MOOCs and more. The masterclass is for teachers and staff of higher educati… more »
My collegau Martijn Ouwehand did a presentation at the OCWC Global Conference about bringing OER into the classroom. This presentation is based on the project STUMBLE which is focused on adding OER materials to basic courses that have a low pass rate. T… more »
This year the OCWC Global conference is in Bali, one of the many islands of Indonesia. Yesterday there was the official launch of OER Indonesia. Today the keynotes give a good insight in the developments of OER in Indonesia. And I'm impressed. OER is… more »
Last week Audrey Watters blogged about the question "What has the impact been of MOOCs on MIT OCW usage?". The answer from Steve Carson:
The site has seen ?record levels of traffic? since the MOOC craze began: 22.3 million visitors in 2012, up 25%… more »
Yesterday the OER Trend Report 2013 of the Dutch special interest group for Open Educational Resources has been published: The Trend Report: Open Educational Resources 2013 describes trends in open educational resources (OER) and open education in the… more »
This is the 100th blogpost that I publish on this blog in 2012. In this blog an overview of the most populair posts and other statistics.
The blogpost were not nicely distributed over the year. Although I published every month at least 5 posts, Decembe… more »
At the Online Educa Berlin I got a preview of a new Blackboard product. xpLor is a Learning Object Repository in the cloud which is fully integrated in Blackboard Learn, but also in Moodle and Sakai:
Over the past 15 years the Learning Management Syste… more »