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Harvard – MIT partnership ($60M to create a Platform for Free Online Courses)

After reading this news, we remembered a certain quote by George Siemens: “[…] Education seems to be at the threshold of a very dramatic change”   Article by Nick DeSantis published in The Chronicle of[…]

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VI International Seminar on Open Social Learning (VIII): UOC Session

VI International Seminar of the UOC UNESCO Chair in e-Learning Notes from the Open Social Learning, organized by UOC UNESCO Chair in E-Learning and held in Barcelona, Spain, on November 30th and December 1st 2009.[…]

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VI International Seminar on Open Social Learning (VII): Meta-Learning: Process of Learning in the Network Era

VI International Seminar of the UOC UNESCO Chair in e-Learning Meta-Learning: Process of Learning in the Network Era. Jay Cross, independent consultant, founder and CEO of the Internet Time Group LLC, Berkeley, USA Notes from[…]

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VI International Seminar on Open Social Learning (IV): Demostration Session

VI International Seminar of the UNESCO Chair in e-Learning Notes from demostration session the VI UOC UNESCO Chair International Seminar on Open Social Learning, Barcelona, 30 November – 1 December, 2009 George Siemens and Kathleen[…]

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VI International Seminar on Open Social Learning (V): The Role of Open Educational Resources in Personal Learning

VI International Seminar of the UOC UNESCO Chair in e-Learning The Role of Open Educational Resources in Personal Learning. Stephen Downes. Senior Resercher for the National Research Council of Canada. Notes from the Open Social[…]

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VI International Seminar on Open Social Learning (III): Code, Community and Commerce for Open Social Learning

VI International Seminar of the UNESCO Chair in e-Learning Code, Community and Commerce for OSL. Joel Greenberg, Technical Director, SocialLearn Project, The Open University, UK Notes from the the Open Social Learning, organized by UOC[…]

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VI International Seminar on Open Social Learning (II): Facebook project, an embodiment of edupunk at a public university

VI International Seminar of the UNESCO Chair in e-Learning The Facebook Project. Edupunk and the redesign of power/knowledge relations in a public university setting. Alejandro Piscitelli, Former CEO of Educ.ar, education portal of Argentina. Professor[…]

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Open Social Learning at the VI International Seminar

  Open Social Learning will be the focus of the UOC UNESCO chair in e-Learning VI International Seminar, that will take place in Barcelona on November 30 and December 1 2009.This year, as part of[…]

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UOC UNESCO Chair in Elearning | Fifth International Seminar – Linda Roberts: Curriki

Notes from the UOC UNESCO Chair in e-Learning Fifth International Seminar. Fighting the Digital Divide through Education)
CurrikiLinda Roberts, Curriki
The way we make progress, is doing things: the power of taking risks, and not being satisfied with small successes.
A change of paradigm: the Participation Age. This is why global connectivity, global access, the global network come […]

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UOC UNESCO Chair in Elearning | Fifth International Seminar – Teemu Leinonen: Wikiversity

Notes from the UOC UNESCO Chair in e-Learning Fifth International Seminar. Fighting the Digital Divide through Education)
WikiversityTeemu Leinonen, Media Lab – University of Art and Design Helsinki
Any true understanding is dialogic in nature (Bakhtin).
UNESCO’s Young Digital Creators: UNESCO Young Digital Creators (YDC) Educator’s Kit.
Evolution of learning technologies
Is it learning with technology or learning from technology?
The […]