elearning: Brian Lamb "The Urgency of Open Education"

Notes from Monday morning's key note speaker, Brian Lamb.

http://blogs.ubc.ca/open/open-up/

http://blogs.ubc.ca/brian

"Adventures in Wikipedia" -- "Murder, Madness, and Mayhem Project Page" John Beasley-Murray (Wikipedia page, blog) Assigned students topic in order to create an entry on wikipedia adding something to the academic commons being viewed by thousands more people than a term paper. Other individuals came forward and volunteered services in academic and technical support. Negotion, collaboration, proper and sound referencing. "Living work" --it is still alive and contributing to the academic world. "Sense of authenticity" see the purpose of doing the work.

Why does this work appeal so much?
*fast, cheap, and out of control
*auguments traditional literacy with new media literacy
*results in genuinely useful public knowledge resources (perhaps the essence of open education resources)
*students will respond to tasks that are authentic

New nonverbal greetings in mass--THE ACT OF HOLDING UP YOUR MEDIA AND CONTENT CAPTURING. It's the "act of participation", "an act of affirmation" "sharable moment"

MY THOUGHT: Camera/Cell Phone is our "LIVE SCREEN CAPTURE"

MIT open courseware
All course materials are online

OpenCourseWare Consortium

UBC's Tony Dorcey

Keeping content with the LMS system blocks students access after they've left the course. So if next semester or a year down the road they aren't able to retrieve it. Putting it on the web allows them to access it and make future connections.

Creative Commons--quick area to share work with your wishes for use of your work.

Open Licensing

Flickr has a creative commons at bottom of scroll for advanced search that allows you to search for only photos you can use without concern for copyright. Just have to include the url

Google Advanced Search also has a function that allows you to narrow down only material you have permission to use.

WikiEducator free liscense with a mediawiki platform (open source system)

Berkely webcast/courses (audio content)

Gardner Campbell (hearing a poem read results in an active engagement more complex than just reading text) www.gardnercampbell.net/blog1 ENGLISH INSTSRUCTORS

slidshare, my blog, youtube, wordpress, livejournal

UMW BLOGS umwblogs.org

Spontaneous Connections through Remixing and Collaboration

Blogs as content management systems

Blog Squad, LEAP

ZAIDLEARN list of open resources turned into "FREE LEARNING" www.freelearning.ca

RSS Feeds

Ted talks

Connectivism and Connective Knowledge