In the first offering below, Peter Harsha of the Computing Research Association clues us in to the idea that fluency in computers is about more than what we might pick up in high school (or even college) classes; it’s about “knowing…how to use a computer to solve problems.” Folks once thought that personal computing was […]
Read More… from Monday Morning Digest: Learn Computer Literacy Online? Nah, It’ll never work.
Ever-mindful that it is not consistency, but a foolish consistency, that is the hobgoblin of little minds, we’re publishing a real assortment today… First of all, happy Open Access Week! You can find all the details at openaccessweek.org, but suffice it to say that the folks behind the growing open access movement are striving to ensure […]
Read More… from Monday Morning Roundup: Happy Open Access Week!
We’re going to make this a regular public gig (we’ve been circulating these internally for a year or so) — each month, we’ll serve up the latest and greatest of free and open learning resources, tools, and fun sites. We try to get the details right and to toss out thanks where they’re due; please […]
Read More… from OER Newsletter – October 2012 (open. useful. fun.)
Here are some of last week’s headlines: Berkeley Joins ‘EdX’ Effort to Offer Free Open Courses The University of California at Berkeley is the third institution to join EdX, which also includes MIT and Harvard. What’s interesting about this is that UC Berkeley will not be contributing any money to EdX – instead, they will […]
Read More… from Monday Morning Digest: Questioning Free Education Providers
Here are some of the top headlines from last week: Universities Reshaping Education on the Web Coursera announces that about a dozen major research universities will be joining their cause of offering open online courses (MOOCs). The folks behind Coursera are very interested with what can be done with certification instead of offering degrees. This […]