The Design of Openness

The Design of Openness

Jim Groom Open Education Conference, 2009 August 12th, 2009

 

“I’m on a mission from Lamb”

“I’m on a mission from Lamb”

To quote Brian Lamb from this comment here: I’m reminded of something George Siemens said at a symposium on distributed tool strategies: that schools should be …

 

It’s all about RSS

It’s all about RSS

What do I mean by this? Well let’s take a jump out of this presentation to this site and take a closer look.

 

Syndication bus models

Syndication bus models

Stephen Downes’ EDURSS Novak Rogik and Brian Lamb’s  aggRSSive experiment

 

EDUGLU

EDUGLU

Bill Fitzgerald and D’Arcy Norman have both experimented with Drupal to great such a feed-driven syndication hub: http://feeds.openacademic.org http://eduglu.learningparty.net

 

Open Learn

Open Learn

Tony Hirst’s Open University Republished Course Content Feeds. 

 

CCK 08

CCK 08

George Siemen’s and Stephen Downes’ Connectivism and Connected Knowledge (CCK 08)

 

“The Wire”

“The Wire”

Philipp Schmidt’s Yahoo Pipes mashup “The Wire”

 

Contextualized Feeds

Contextualized Feeds

Penn State University’s Movable Type’s context-rich search term feeds

 

Axis as the Course

Axis as the Course

Is the idea true that as long as there are courses, semesters, credit hours, etc., there will be Course Management Systems? Maybe, but I also …