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Free Learning

Tony Karrer

Harold tells us: Anybody see a parallel here with instructional systems design or curriculum development? Web media can be created quickly and, if designed in an open manner, can change according to the needs of learners and facilitators. OCW, OER) as part of their internal learning. If you know of examples, please contact me.

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Creative Commons Use in For-Profit Company eLearning?

Tony Karrer

Most of the OCW content appears to come under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 There were a few exceptions such as Stanford Engineering Everywhere with a CC-BY license. But, I think this really turns into a question of the implications of CC-BY-NC-SA.

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Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT. No registration required.

Take an e-Learning Break

MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity. This undergraduate class is designed to introduce students to the physics that govern the circulation of the ocean and atmosphere.

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Open Content in Workplace Learning?

The Learning Circuits

One of my Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010 was around Open Content for Workplace Learning: I’m not sure why this already hasn’t had a bigger impact, but workplace learning is going to start to catch up on the value of OCW and OER. Do a search on something like “instructional design”.

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Reading the tea Leaves in my tabs: Our ecosystem is Commodified

Mark Oehlert

The last group of sites are all tools that are designed to allow users to easily create mobile apps, including one which lets you do that on a mobile device itself. I'd argue that DESIGN in this environment becomes critical differentiator. No, not just instructional design although that has its place. Game design.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

She learned how to be an effective participant and this helped propel her to become a designer. Prediction #9 => Open Content I’m not sure why this already hasn’t had a bigger impact, but workplace learning is going to start to catch up on the value of OCW and OER. Do a search on something like “instructional design”.

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11 Differences between a MOOC and an Online Course

ID Reflections

MOOCs on various topics can be set up using blended content – some custom designed and some re-purposed from OERs and other available content from the net as long as one takes care to note the various IPR-related policies. Courses are designed by learning designers and SMEs and disseminated to the learners.