Tag Archives: open
One week of bad stories about higher education financing, and I feel fine
Somedays it’s hard to discern signals about an emerging topic. Other times they just fight with each other to leap across the transom. Today the subject is higher education finances in crisis. One of the datapoints is personal, while the … Continue reading
One classic open education source to stop
webcast.berkeley.edu, an open education resource dating back a while, will no longer make new content. Why? Financial pressures. Berkeley will keep on doing lecture capture, just not for the rest of us: We will no longer make recorded lecture videos … Continue reading
Academia tries out open in response to Ebola (UPDATED)
How has academia shared its resources openly in response to the Ebola crisis?* Have we used technology to make a difference? Here are some examples: Oxford University Press opened up fifty scientific articles. These are from scholarly journals like Clinical Infectious … Continue reading
MOOCs instead of open education
I’ve been talking about open education with academics for the past year and a half. I try to put everything out there: open education resources (OER), open access scholarship, open source software, open courses. My NITLE colleague Lisa Spiro formulated nine (9) … Continue reading
