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PARC Forum: "Open Education: Stepping into New Collaborative Processes"
| What | open education Presentation |
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| When |
2008-03-20 11:00
to 2008-04-09 12:30 |
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Lisa Petrides, Ph.D., President and Founder of the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME)
The open content
movement – which involves the aggregation, sharing, and collaborative
enrichment of free educational materials over the Internet – is
re-energizing teaching and learning efforts and making educational
resources more
dynamic through a cross-pollination of ideas and
expertise. This Forum will discuss open education efforts worldwide,
including the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in
Education's (ISKME) online network, OER Commons. OER Commons aggregates
open educational resources (OER) within a social networking environment
to stimulate engagement of diverse populations in accessing and using
these resources. Drawing on insights from ISKME’s OER Commons
initiative, as well as its research on online collaborative learning
environments, this Forum will discuss: (1) how the open education
movement is fundamentally about strengthening scholarship and teaching
through collaboration – and developing technologies to make that
happen; and (2) how this nascent movement is addressing the technical
and cultural challenges that impact its widespread adoption.