Tag Archives: open education

What does the university offer?

By alex | Published: 3/30/2012

The answer is obvious: courses. But you can get courses anywhere. I’ve written about this before (Dealing Out the Uni), but Jim Groom’s effort to get a new server for his course via Kickstarter has me thinking again. Earlier this week, in the context of discussing what the traditional university provided that crowdsourced and open [...]

Posted in Teaching | Also tagged Alternative education, badges, diploma, Donna Haraway, Edward Tufte, European Graduate School, faculty, Graduate School, Howard Rheingold, Jacques Derrida, Jim Groom, John Waters, MIT, open, open educational resources, p2pu, Peter Greenaway, Philosophical skepticism, professor, Stanford, transcript, university | 1 Comment

Free Range Assessment

By alex | Published: 8/5/2010

Over the last few months I’ve been keeping a close eye on the development of the (Mozilla and P2PU) School of Webcraft. (Here’s a 103 second introduction.) One reason for this is obvious: I’m interested in how people learn to produce content for the web, and I am interested in teaching using the open web [...]

Posted in Teaching | Also tagged Learning, open educational resources, p2pu, school of webvraft | Leave a comment

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