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“I will be conducting a series of “Web 2.0″ workshops for academics from 23 universities from across the region on behalf of the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia (MoHE). I will be in KL for 8 days. I am working with Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, on this project. ” – John Larkin

I will be attending a web 2.0 workshop conducted by John Larkin (and Dr. Daniel Tan) next week, so obviously I had to check out his stuff, and I like the fact that he has already shared his workshop notes (guides and tips) on his informative website. Here are some of the workshops he conducts:
Yep, he is a ‘Learning Gladiator‘ and I can’t wait to battle it out! It will be fun learning from another learning gladiator. Actually, I would have preferred going for the Comic Life workshop instead (if ever conducted here), because that would be more useful, as I am pretty familiar with the web 2.0 workshop curriculum. But, since I am invited, I am not going step down against another learning gladiator. It will be a true battle of learning, which only causes harm to the ignorant and ego-boasting male 🙂

P.S. Lance Larkin, just some fun! Hopefully, you take it that way, too 🙂

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Via Stephen Downes
Stephen Downes talk at the Educational Computing Organization of Ontario, Richmond Hill, Ontario:

“The internet offers society the opportunity to provide access to a free or affordable education for all. This concept is known as ‘open education‘ and is the subject of various projects, such as ‘Open Education Resources’ (OER) or the Open Courseware Project (OCW). This talk looks at the principle of open education, major projects, and reflects the role played by educational technology, and outlines some of the challenges.”

The best thing now, is to stop writing, explore the slides, click play (audio), listen, learn, reflect, unlearn, reflect again….Enjoy 🙂

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Here are the articles from this special issue:

Editorial


Research Articles

If you don’t believe in Open Educational Resources (OER), OpenCourseWare (OCW), and openness, perhaps these articles above will change your views about that.


The future of higher education and openness?

No clue, except that we can learn:

  • Whatever We want
  • Whenever We want
  • Wherever We want
  • On any device We want

Yes, most of it will not cost anything except our time. Our time is precious, so if it ain’t of quality, forget it. That applies to any programme or course, too. Yes, increasingly the public will be enlightened, so we better wake up to a new world order of learning beyond any classroom wall 🙂

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It includes thousands of links to courses in subjects ranging from architecture to chemistry to women’s studies and these courses are prepared by top institutions such as MIT, Yale University and University of California.

It is a comprehensive and wonderful index (and list) of free courses, but I would also love to see a customized search feature that enables me to search all the University courses found here. One could easily use Google Custom Search (or any other free search creating engine you can find!) to do the trick.

Finally, one might want to also check out ZaidLearn’s ultimate OER – OCW lists of lists. It is an old and clumsy list, but still quite popular 🙂

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UNESCO OER Toolkit

Most of the Toolkit is designed for academics who are interested in finding and using OER (Open Educational Resources) in the courses they teach, or who wish to publish OER that they have developed. Some sections are aimed at institutional decision-makers and academics that interested in setting up a more formal OER project. These projects may start with just a few interested academics but, as they grow, institutional policies, funding and legal constraints become more relevant. Individuals who are not aiming to set up a institutional project may nonetheless be interested to read the whole document. Likewise, institutional planners, IT staff or librarians who are interested in setting up an OER project would benefit from understanding the academic’s perspective.

The OER toolkit explores the following topics:

  • Background to Open Educational Resources
  • The Emergence of Open Education
  • Copyright and Open Content Licensing
  • Finding and Using Open Educational Resources
  • Creating and Sharing OER
  • Establishing Institutional OER Projects
  • Setting Up Your OER Project

It would be great to see a few Malaysian Universities also getting involved with creating and sharing OER. Is it happening? Or am I just dreaming 🙂

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Free Internet Libraries

Walter Antoniotti has collected tons of free Internet learning materials for students, teachers, and professionals. The result has been about 50 Free Internet Libraries that receive close to 60,000 unique visitors per month from over 200 countries. They contain free books, notes, study aids, and career information for many business areas.

He is also the author of the free Quick Notes Learning System books series, creator of textbooksfree.org and President of 21st Century Learning Products.

A learning resource treasure! However, it would be cool if he could also add a search function (Use Google Custom Search), a comments section (forum, ratings, poll, or survey), RSS feeds, and spice the design a bit up. Perhaps a few stimulating visuals, at least a light, easy and juicy banner would be smokey. I suppose if he does, he can add another digit to his yummy 60,000 unique visitors per month 🙂

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