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A question on linking open courseware to faculties
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The Online Education Database published their list of “Top 100 open courseware projects.” This list demonstrates that there is a lot of content available, encompassing in the fields of agriculture, arts, architecture, archeology, audio & video, biology, botany, chemistry, civil engineering, economics, electronic engineering, general engineering, Earth sciences, geography & geology, history, languages & linguistics, law, literature, mechanical engineering, paleontology, physics, political Science, psychology, and the social sciences.
Quality among open courses vary significantly, and most open courseware do not plug into the Web 2.0 “wisdom of crowds” that can enhance quality and provide avenues for new knowledge production. Furthermore, most faculty distance themselves from online publishing and knowledge dissemination. Even worse, few faculty (at the undergraduate level, at least) as concerned about generating new knowledge with students.
My question is, how can open courseware and academics/professionals be retooled jointly to create open, new knowledge-producing spaces for students and life-long learners?
Horizon Forum mini-conference presentations
The Horizon Forum held a “mini-conference” on April 30, 2007. Here are several of the documents presented at the focused discussion on the future of PK-17 education in Minnesota.
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Tom Tapper, Superintendent, Owatonna Public Schools: After righting the reforms, are baby steps enough? -
Arthur Harkins and John Moravec: Debriefing of trip to China and demonstration of innovative Chinese learning devices (read a review of devices demonstrated) - Cristóbal Cobo, Director of Communications, FLACSO México: Open learning models in education (view the presentation at SlideShare)
