Wednesday, August 29th, 2007...8:43 am

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

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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 had
to deal with all the same structural problems of assessment, such a service would
have increased the value of existing open education resources to users
tremendously. The UNU was not convinced that it should play this role
at the time.

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  • werutzb
    October 7th, 2008 at 7:38 pm

    Hi!

    I would like make better my SQL capabilities.
    I red that many SQL books and want to
    read more about SQL for my occupation as mysql database manager.

    What would you recommend?

    Thanks,
    Werutz

  • Philipp Schmidt
    October 8th, 2008 at 12:49 am

    Hi Werutz: I am by no means an expert on SQL or database programming, so I wouldn’t be able to point you to the best open educational resources on the topic.

    The mysql project has a number of mailing lists (http://lists.mysql.com/) that could probably help with your question. Also, just participating in the mailing list and raising questions, and helping answer other peoples’ questions, is a tremendous learning experience. In a large study conducted by UNU-MERIT (http://www.merit.unu.edu), many developers mentioned that learning and sharing knowledge were key motivating factors for their participation.

    Best – P

  • indedence
    January 16th, 2009 at 4:30 am

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