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How to Crowdsource Quality Resources for Adult Learners

Digital Promise

We at Designers for Learning responded to this call by inviting instructional designers, developers, and adult educators to join a crowdsourcing effort to develop free open educational resources (OER) for adults with low math and literacy skills. The four key factors: Use a real-world instructional design challenge. The Impact.

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The Fans, Fanboys, and Fanatics of OER

Doug Levin

I don’t fret much at all over some of what Clark raises: the acceptance and/or lack of broader cheer-leading for Wikipedia, MOOCs, or Khan Academy as success stories. K-12 context, individual teacher’s choices about instructional materials are constrained by district and state policy anyway. K-12 context.

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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

Edsurge

Rather than limiting yourself to looking at educational resources produced by schools or universities, find examples of instructional materials from other sectors to get ideas. The field is so new that there are no definitive ways to do it “right” and lots of approaches are worth learning from.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). It’s not really an “exclusive” when you re-write a Google blog post , but oh well. In other news culled from the Google blog: “ Introducing Spaces , a tool for small group sharing.” ” Upgrades and Downgrades. million total.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “Should Online Courses Go Through ‘Beta Testing’?” NPR on MOOC Micromasters. ” The University of Oregon is seeking the emails of professor William Harbaugh , who operates the blog UOMatters, and his correspondence with the media.