EDUCAUSE Review Articles; Open Access; Teaching and Learning; and Articles, Papers, and Reports

Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0

Added by the EDUCAUSE Librarian
Title:Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 (ID: ERM0811)
Author(s):John Seely Brown (Palo Alto Research Center) and Richard P. Adler (Institute for the Future)
Origin:EDUCAUSE Review Articles (01/18/2008)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:

The building blocks provided by the Open Educational Resources movement, along with e-Science and e-Humanities and the resources of the Web 2.0, are creating the conditions for the emergence of new kinds of open participatory learning ecosystems that will support active, passion-based learning: Learning 2.0.

View this resource:

Open Content and the Emerging Global Meta-University

Added by the EDUCAUSE Librarian
Title:Open Content and the Emerging Global Meta-University (ID: ERM0630)
Author(s):Charles M. Vest (MIT)
Origin:EDUCAUSE Review Articles (2006)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:

Open-access projects are stimulating a broader open-content movement, which in turn is leading to the emergence of a meta-university—an accessible, dynamic, and communally constructed framework of open materials and platforms on which much of higher education worldwide can be constructed or enhanced.

View this resource: