Openness Constituent Group

Can anyone on the list provide examples where either: 1. A university is accepting, in a degree granting academic program (e.g. a B.S. in Biology) an course from an OCW project (e.g. Courcera, MIT OCW, OERu, Opencourseware Consortium, The Saylor Foundation, Udacity, etc.). That is, I am wondering if there are any examples of a traditional university (University of X) pointing their students to an externally developed, hosted, taught (assessed) OCW course and awarding credits for its completion toward a degree from the university (a B.S. in Biology from University X)? 2. A university teaching an externally developed, managed and hosted OER/OCW course directly (with a university based instructor), and upon successful completion awarding credit toward a degree (B.S. in Biology). Thanks, Patrick || |||| ||| || | | || ||| || ||| || | | ||| || ||| || Patrick Masson Chief Technology Officer, UMassOnline The University of Massachusetts, Office of the President 333 South St.,...

Our (all of us) collective work in helping governments understand "openness" and why open policies are important got a boost last week when UNESCO members states unanimously approved the 2012 Paris OER Declaration.

Creative Commons blog post: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/33089

Well done UNESCO, Commonwealth of Learning and everyone who worked hard for the last year to get this Declaration passed!

See the list of recommendations, for governments, on the blog post.  We have plenty of work to do.

Your partner in all things open,

Cable

PS - Please "tweet":   2012 Paris #OER Declaration passed @UNESCO. Read #CC wrapup & full declaration...

OERU is making their live presentation at the OER Congress, now and live.
 mms://stream.unesco.org/live/room_12_en.wmv

Ellen

Ellen Marie Murphy
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Hi, Based on our experience with LON-CAPA, earlier this month we launched the CourseWeaver initiative, http://www.courseweaver.org/ We would like to keep this open instead of going the commercial route, but that needs partners, funding, etc. Since we have a lot of the pieces in place, we believe it will initially take five good programmers about three years to pull this off - probably around $3M in initial funding if this is supposed to stay in the university realm. As this is not a research project, the typical funding avenues like National Science Foundation, etc, are not an option. Then, of course, there is the small problem of longterm sustainability … is there really no other way than going commercial? Any ideas or feedback from this group would be welcome. Thanks, - Gerd. -- Gerd Kortemeyer, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Physics Education Director, LON-CAPA Project Michigan State...

Perhaps another example of the ambiguity in open? http://edfuture.net/ Looking at the information provided on the site as well as the registration material, all I could find was the following: "An open online course, Current/Future State of Higher Education... There is no registration fee. That's what free means." Again, please do not take this as a criticism of the course or of the intent of offering freely available courses. I just wonder if all of those participating share the same perception and thus expectations around "an open online course." Patrick || |||| ||| || | | || ||| || ||| || | | ||| || ||| || Patrick Masson Chief Technology Officer, UMassOnline The University of Massachusetts, Office of the President 333 South St., Suite 400, Shrewsbury, MA 01545 (774) 455-7615: Office (774) 455-7620: Fax (970) 4MASSON: GoogleVoice UMOLPatMasson: AIM massonpj: Skype Web Site:...

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Just released in time for the World OER Congress taking place in Paris in June,  free download link below.

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