Right on queue, in line with those e-learning death throes, comes a tipoff from Simon Buckingham Shum (“Open Sensemaking Communities“) about the major Review of Open Educational Resources (OER) Movement written by Dan Atkins, Director of Cyberinfrastructure at NSF; John Seely Brown, former Chief Scientist of Xerox PARC, and Allen Hammond, World Resources Institute. It looks a stunner. They conclude with a pair of heavy-hitting chapters, one on ‘Brewing a Perfect Storm’:
We advocate an initiative, building on OER, to create a global culture of learning. A culture of learning, or what some might call a learning ecosystem, is targeted at preparing people for thriving in a rapidly evolving, knowledge-based world.
and the other on Open Participatory Learning Infrastructure (OPLI):
…. weaving the threads of an expanded OER movement; the e-science movement; the e-humanities movement; new forms of participation around Web 2.0; social software; virtualization; and multimode, multimedia documents into a transformative open participatory learning infrastructure—the platform for a culture of learning. We are not recommending a direct assault on institutionalized higher education but rather establishing new alternatives to learning for more people in the world. Bold change at the edges of the formal education system, at all levels, will eventually propagate into and change the core.
Well… here’s a tome is worth printing out… just gonna do that now…
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