OpenCourseWare

EDUCAUSE Live! welcomes MIT’s M. S. Vijay Kumar, the editor of Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge. Published by the MIT Press and the Carnegie Foundation, the book is a collection of 30 essays written by leaders in the open education movement. Kumar will discuss how open access can transform education and what the book’s contributors and their research can teach us. According to Kumar, "a look at the landscape tells us that efforts with open education so far have been largely confined to attempts at improving what we already do. While this is certainly valid, we encourage consideration of approaches that transcend traditional practices, organizations, disciplines, and audiences."

EDUCAUSE President Diana Oblinger and Marilyn Lombardi, Director, Duke University’s Renaissance Computing Institute Center, contributed a chapter, "Common Knowledge: Openness in Higher Education," to a new book published by The MIT Press. Read the free, publicly accessible e-book, Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge.

Proceedings from the Center for Open and Sustainable Learning's 2006 Open Education Conference are now available.  I haven't had a chance to review them yet, but they look really interesting.

For more information, visit:
http://cosl.usu.edu/conferences/opened2006/proceedings/

This 25 minute recording gathers some thoughts from Bryan Alexander about Web 2.0.  Bryan is the Director for Emerging Technologies at National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE). 

In this podcast, we'll listen in as Brian Yuhnke interviews Randy Williams the CIO at Benedictine University following the EDUCAUSE Annual Session entitled "An Eye to the Future with a Brief Look Back at the Past"  The running time for this recording is approximately 5 minutes.

Dunno how long this has been up (apparently since mid-July), but it looks kinda interesting ...

The OCW Finder currently shows results for open educational materials from:

• MIT OCW
• Utah State University OCW
• Johns Hopkins School of Public Health OCW
• Tufts University OCW
• Foothill De-Anza SOFIA
• Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative

In this recording, MIT's Charles Vest delivers the Clair Maple Memorial Address at the 2005 Seminars on Academic Computing Conference.  Let's listen in as he shares his insights on OpenCourseWare and the Emerging Global Meta University.