Blog Post: Sharing 2.0-my initial thoughts
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Thanks Sonny you raised one of the concerns I raised in my post, how are OERs going to be funded. I went on a web search to see what funding options are presently available at the K-12 level. I came across a number of initiatives.
“Since 2002, the Hewlett Foundation has worked with OER grantees to improve education globally by making high-quality academic materials openly available on the Internet.” It appears they are one of the first to fund OERs and there development.
Looking to find Canadian based funding I came across the Open Education Textbook Test, "Help Open Source Text Canada prove that Open Education can work in Canada's K-12 schools by funding a grade 12 biology text and in-classroom pedagogical study."
Looking for further information I came across condensed information in the Wikipedia site Open Educational Resources under the headings of “Institutional Support and “Initiatives”.
I had a look at Coursera and Connexion, two of the key open resource sites that I had previously heard of, to see how they are funded. On the Coursera's website it states that, "Coursera is an education company that partners with the top universities and organizations in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free." On the site it lists their partners and also there is an email address for corporate and businesses to contact them. Looking to Connexion, their funding as outlined on the site is “Connexions® is supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Maxfield Foundation, and the Connexions Consortium. Connexions® is a registered trademark of Rice University.”
I could spend hours more researching this. The key is that there appears to many ways to fund without corporate sponsorship. Sonny, I am finding that by looking to respond to your post I am learning a great deal myself, which I believe is what it looks like to be a self-directed learner.
Location: http://mcdhaliwal.weebly.com/blog.html
Thanks Sonny you raised one of the concerns I raised in my post, how are OERs going to be funded. I went on a web search to see what funding options are presently available at the K-12 level. I came across a number of initiatives.
“Since 2002, the Hewlett Foundation has worked with OER grantees to improve education globally by making high-quality academic materials openly available on the Internet.” It appears they are one of the first to fund OERs and there development.
Looking to find Canadian based funding I came across the Open Education Textbook Test, "Help Open Source Text Canada prove that Open Education can work in Canada's K-12 schools by funding a grade 12 biology text and in-classroom pedagogical study."
Looking for further information I came across condensed information in the Wikipedia site Open Educational Resources under the headings of “Institutional Support and “Initiatives”.
I had a look at Coursera and Connexion, two of the key open resource sites that I had previously heard of, to see how they are funded. On the Coursera's website it states that, "Coursera is an education company that partners with the top universities and organizations in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free." On the site it lists their partners and also there is an email address for corporate and businesses to contact them. Looking to Connexion, their funding as outlined on the site is “Connexions® is supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Maxfield Foundation, and the Connexions Consortium. Connexions® is a registered trademark of Rice University.”
I could spend hours more researching this. The key is that there appears to many ways to fund without corporate sponsorship. Sonny, I am finding that by looking to respond to your post I am learning a great deal myself, which I believe is what it looks like to be a self-directed learner.