Places to Go:OpenLearn by Stephen Downes

Hoy traemos un artículo de Stephen Downes «Places to Go:OpenLearn» en Innovate.
Respecto al tema, ya lo hemos tratado anteriormente en los siguientes posts, por si queréis bichear un poco:
1) miércoles 25 de octubre de 2006: Hoy 25 de Octubre se lanza OpenLearn: Open University offers free e-learning:
2)miércoles 28 de junio de 2006. También la Carnegie Mellon’s comienza con Open Learning Initiative
3) jueves 1 de diciembre de 2005: Open Standards, Open Source, and Open Content

Synopsis
In response to the rise in learning institutions making materials available online, Open University has created OpenLearn, a site that offers entire course materials to its users. In this article, Stephen Downes takes a tour of this site, commenting on its academic components as well as its pedagogical possibilities. Going a step beyond what most other comparable sites offer, OpenLearn encourages the sharing and remixing of course materials; moreover, the availability and range of community tools it offers, including discussion forums, Web-based videoconferencing, and instant messaging, creates a network of support for its users. Downes propounds that the properties of Open Learn will, in fact, set a new standard for open access.View the article. (leer más…)

Fuente: [innovate]

tags: e-learning, aprendizaje, web2.0, Stephen Downes, web 2.0, OpenLearn