Open_Ed Course Fall 2007

For the assignments of this last week of the course, I have accepted Alessandro's invitation to produce a group presentation on Google Docs about our feelings towards the course. If you want to see our work, ...   Vai al post

As regards this week's cross-blogging, the impression I've got is that we have been a bit in trouble with the course assignments. Some participants are late in their blogging, others have not posted anything ...   Vai al post

I have liked Dr. Wiley's idea of writing the chapter about the future of the OER movement in an autobiographical form, as if everything had already happened. It has given the narration a more realistic ...   Vai al post

When I started to read about learning objects last week I was a little confused and felt rather ignorant about this topic: I had previously tried to learn something about them by myself because in Italian higher education there was a lively debate ...   Vai al post

I have very much liked the assignments for this week because I needed to have an idea of what was going on among my classmates after 9 weeks of intensive reading but very little communication ...   Vai al post

For this week's assignments I have read "Free Culture", by Lawrence Lessig. The reason why I decided to choose this book among David Wiley's recommended books was because Alberto, a member of my professional community ...   Vai al post

This week's readings have clearly pointed out that social production based on commons, rather than property, has become a significant force in the economy, and that in the knowledge society an effective social production system is developing ...   Vai al post

The reading of this week has been very interesting and a novelty for me, as I have to confess I did not know very much about how to license creative/cultural works, but now that I should know a bit more than the past I am so confused about ...   Vai al post

The papers of this week are all concerned with the issue of copyright and the public domain from an American viewpoint and have underlined the limits of the current copyright law. In Italy, the law provides a limited copyright duration ...   Vai al post

What do these representative open education projects have in common? What differentiates them? In the context of open education projects, ...   Vai al post

The reports of weeks 2, 3 and 4 provide an overview of the current situation and future developments in open digital resources and the OER movement, even though from different viewpoints.

The report about OECD (week ...   Vai al post

In a recent interview (A Good Read - Nick Hornby on why you can't beat a good book, Speak Up, August 2007) Nick Hornby, a popular writer in Europe, expresses his opinion about quality ...   Vai al post