Before beginning the Level 1 quests in Week 5, players must select one of four character classes . Each class focuses on a specific area of expertise relevant to open education. The classes are: Artisan – The Art isan ha s digital materials production skills in all the necessary Web 1.0 and 2.0 tools of open publishing and open education like HTML, video sharing, podcasting. Bard – The Bard is the M aste r of Lore, and is versed in the history, people, and politics of the field of open education. The Bard knows what open educational resources are “out there” as well as what’s available within the university. Merchant – The Merchant deal s with s hort-term and long-term sustainability issues and business models relating to open education projects. Monk – The Monk is a student of copy righ t and licensing arcana and defender of the university brand. Rogue – The Rogue utilizes digital material production and web dev skills to obtain, reuse, and remix OER, using stealth and cunning to unlock and re-release OER materials that may be guarded or trapped by publishing technology. The Rogue uses adapted versions of the Artisan’s Quests . Thanks to Jared Stein for this additio n!
you can play courses on ipod at one and half speed...
it’s not all about institution, creating and distributing is never easier today take wiley’s example, he used blip.tv to distribute video, wiki to organize materials, which is unimaginable 10 years ago.
now it’s possible to personalize the content book-ification of courses hulu book-ification of TV
Open system: more information and resources would flow into this system, sustain and grow the system. funding:Hewlett FoundationUNESCO OER projectsCommonwealth of LearningModel:endowment modelmembership modeldonations modelconversion modelcontributor paysponsorship modelinstitutional modelgovernment funding model
content-OER, wikipedia yahoo answers, chacha.com... social: facebook, meetup, foursquare degrees: certificate, western governors university
empowered to take control your learning, with emotion if you connect actively to others. distributed in networks, Personal learning networks you can remix the course, personalize to your pace, translate it to your own language; you are no longer constrained by the curriculum of specific major