MIT optimizes for More High School use of OCW


Free Online MIT Course Materials For High School
By Cheng Chen
Luckily, the geniuses at MIT have compiled an MIT Open Courseware website designed especially for High School Students. It contains AP Study guides, videos, notes, generalizations, and anything else to help students relax a bit in their ...
Feed Elite - http://feedelite.com


Google Combined with One Laptop per Child alongside Open COurseware and we have Major cultural sift in education

Notes from Keynote on TPACK

By Troy Hicks
Combine Google with open courseware and one laptop per child, and we are looking at a fundamental shift in learning and human culture; We teach using Moodle, but we worry about the "I agree" phenomenon where students do not put in their ...
Digital Writing, Digital Teaching - http://hickstro.org


Free Open courseware Program Developing Critical Thinking Skills for Teachers

Free Technology For Teachers: Developing Critical Thinking Skills

By Mr. Byrne(Mr. Byrne)
Joe Lau, Professor of Philosophy at Hong Kong University has developed an Open Courseware program full of resources for teaching and developing critical thinking skills. Dr. Lau's Critical Thinking web has games, puzzles, and quizzes in ...
Free Technology for Teachers - http://freetech4teachers.blogspot.com/


The Barriers of Cost and Admin for Schools to utlise Open Learning effectively have disappeared

Open Learning - Open Courseware Enables Universal Education

By emapey
The role of distance education is changing. Traditionally distance education was limited in the number of people served because of production, reproduction, distribution, and communication costs. In the past, schools spent resources to ...
Onlinesapiens Blog - http://onlinesapiens.com/blog

Have you explored the opportunities presented by the Podcast for Classroom use

Using Podcasts in the Classroom

By mcphilbrick
Meet the Author - interviews of young adult authors. WGBH. Primarily related to science. iTunes University (iTunesU information) -. University of South Florida — Lit2Go - Free audio books. MIT — Open courseware ...
NV Tek Lib - http://nvlibrary.wordpress.com


Open courseware School News


MIT Open Courseware for High School
By admin
"[I] used to teach sixth-grade math, but due to No Child Left Behind, I now must pass a test in linear algebra to update my credential. [All] the linear algebra courses at local colleges are during school hours. ...
Lunch Bag Lessons 3 - http://wp.esd101.net/lunchbags/session3

Physics lectures
By jiml(jiml)
With a $300000 grant he has set up an impressive set of physics lectures with fun and interesting demos all recorded and available at MIT's open courseware. Here's the article that pointed me at his 8.01 class lectures. ...
jiml - http://xuth.livejournal.com/



OER Commons Supporting Collaboration and Social Learning

Institute for the study of knowledge mangement and education Lisa Petrides

How do you apply it how do you learn from it

Data information knowledge

What it means to have a static resource, what it means to integrate that data

How you using it to impact learning

How does it have impact on continous learning

OER as a process of knowledge sharing and creation

OER is a whole process not just a resourc

Alternative licensing
RE Authoring Platforms

Tools that facilitate continous feedback loops and invite participation

Expanding on knowledge creation, how u incorporate user generated meta data

Ideas of testing IDEAS learning by doing

what it means to model enquiry

what it is about enquiry

add value through intre

Educative function - how do teachers use matterials how do they find
Knowledge action field
Finding the resources
Different licenses means

The Library of Congress with Flckr
as a experiment all resources available for use, unfound not researchable
They put them all onto FLCKR and people users are adding knowledge to the information

We aggregate metadata about other people educational resources
Respositories Lookingat GEO DATA
Teachers are able to find resources that support community interfacing local needs, whole another world of GEO DATA

BIOQuest main purpose how to teach biology better

COllabortories

Sceintific discovery

Simulations, tools, temperature

USING OER to find whats available using WIKI SPACE to become new OER

TEACHER strategies

How do they really use that container

Lot more experiments of how teachers and learners want to use both formal and informal

Share modify and remix

(Re) Authoring

Bringing intellectual Property

Potential barriers to learning  support the collaborative ways of learning

Structures of how they collaborate

Reprofessionalism of Teachers

Have teachers step of this role remixers, add their own experience

Aggregation and curration

META data enhancement

REuse tags, ratings,

Interoperability anyway we can exchange FACEBOOK OERDAILY

How to embed these processes into informal learning environments

Widget on your browser not MEGASYSTEM

Better teach a studentt

iskme.org
oercommons.org





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'Enabling Culture Networks'

The School child of Today would Rather listen to his lecture and read the transcript via a e-book on his OLPC

Opening up e-books

New Statesman - London,England,UK
In short, it means that those who download audiobooks can listen to them
anywhere - on their laptop or on any MP3 player they care to own. ...
<http://www.newstatesman.com/200803130040>


Inhabitat >> VIDEO: Mary Lou Jepsen on One Laptop Per Child. Fabulous not even small, and cheap the XO laptop is also designed to be green!!! (tags: xo olpc technology green laptop environment ITGS). "Intellectual property" is a silly ...
<http://constructict.com/blog/?p=302>



Not Sure about a Degree to Take at College Use OCW as a way of trialing the course

OCW: System Safety

By Rob(Rob)
... I will write in more detail about the specific labs which interest me, but for now I have concluded that a good way to learn more would be to pick and course that interests me and read the lecture notes on MIT's OpenCourseWare. ...
Hedonistic Equanimity - http://www.metaphrast.com/rob/