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PARC Forum: "Open Education: Stepping into New Collaborative Processes"

What open education Presentation
When 2008-03-20 12:00 to
2008-04-09 13:30
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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 moreopen-graphic 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.

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