
eLearning Papers, a journal promoting the use of ICT for lifelong learning in Europe, is focussing on OERs in it’s latest issue. Here’s the sell:

Leaders across the open educational resources movement have got together to author a book about “the potential of open education to transform the economics and ecology of education”.

I have just submitted a proposal to the Hewlett Foundation to develop an Open Learning network. This has involved working with Candace Thille at CMU and several people here at the OU including Grainne Conole, Andy Lane and Simon Buckingham Shum. Much of the drafting took place in a public wiki which was an interesting process.

Below is the summary for a new project called Open Learning Network that I’m working on with OU colleagues Patrick McAndrew, Gráinne Conole and Andy Lane, and Candace Thille at Carnegie Mellon University. The objective is to build a distributed, open sensemaking community that pools collective intelligence on the impact that OERs are having.
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