Education - Knowledgebase

Mix core ideas from survey research with new insights from crowdsourcing. Add a heavy dose of statistics. Stir in a bit of fresh thinking. Enjoy.

The CK-12 Foundation is a California-based non-profit organization whose stated mission is to reduce the cost of, and increase access to, K-12 education in the United States and worldwide. CK-12 provides free and fully customizable K-12 open educational resources aligned to state curriculum standards and tailored to meet student and teacher needs. The foundation's tools are used by 38,000 schools in the US, and additional international schools.

Factlink helps uncovering what people know by measuring their authority on any specific subject. It enables you to reach out to peers and get recognition.

Our topic for Games MOOC III is Build the Game using Apps, AR and ARGs. The focus of this MOOC will be learning about the resources available to create a game or gaming project for your course.This may take the form of using mobile devices to include even augmented reality. Or it may be a highly immersive interactive project that has your students doing live action role-play. Depending on your class, you may choose to use a little, alot or no technology at all. This course will have us exploring all the options. Educators in any stage of utilizing game based learning are welcome even the merely curious. Lurkers especially!

The Hewlett Foundation’s Education Program is committed to openness and transparency in its grantmaking. Recently, the Program revisited its Open Educational Resources (OER) strategy in an effort to better understand how its philanthropic investments—within the context of the larger funding landscape— can help integrate OER into mainstream education. We conducted dozens of expert interviews and commissioned new research and analysis. The result of our research is this white paper, which presents a roadmap for transforming teaching and learning by shifting OER from a small-scale movement to standard education practice.

The early adopters of OER believed that education is a public good and that openness, embedded as an essential element of the teaching and learning process, can have a strong, positive effect in education. The goal is not to further OER as a movement itself, but to contribute to the equalization of access to knowledge for all and demonstration that the teaching and learning experience can be improved even as fiscal resources decline. Bringing this aspiration to fruition in mainstream education will require focus, collaboration, and a community of supporters from multiple sectors.

The purpose of this paper is to identify and explore the dynamics of an emerging form of teaching and learning – social network knowledge construction – associated with the use of social networks, particularly 3D virtual world environments such as Second Life. As social network technologies not only frame the way individuals interact and learn, but actually impact on a learner’s thinking process and development of future consciousness, new pedagogies are

This updated 2014 slideshow is created by Sherry Jones. It includes new videos that demonstrates how game-based learning is implemented in rgMOOC.

Slideshow is co-presented by Sherry Jones and Kate Caruso at the Colorado Community College System (CCCS) Immersion Excursion Conference on Feb. 14, 2014.