Entries from August 2007

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

unu / unesco meeting recommendations on open education

Signed up for David Wiley’s course on open education. I was concerned that I might not have enough time to participate (and I am still concerned) but will see how it goes.
He gave two great presentations at the UNU/UNESCO meeting, and a lot of the points he raised made it into the suggestions that [...]

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

assessment and accreditation - the missing pieces in the open education world?

Stephen Downes shares his thoughts on assessment. I very much agree
with much of what he says and think that this is an area where we will
see a lot of movement in the next few years.
http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2007/06/open-source-assessment.html
Some time ago, I proposed to the United Nations University to become a
global assessment and accreditation provider. While it would have [...]