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OLS — it works!

April 29, 2004 by opencontent

So today I was stumbling around the OLS site and found the following exchange. This is it… this is what Open Learning Support is about. autounfocus readers may find this boring or even lame, but I’m just so excited to see an instance of OLS facilitating the kind of interaction we intended that I just … Read more

OLS Pilot Goes Live

April 20, 2004 by opencontent

Our Open Learning Support pilot project went live this morning. There are now seven MIT OpenCourseWare “courses” pointing to OLS communities: Linear Algebra Introduction to Computers and Engineering Problem Solving Introduction to Algorithms Introduction to Optimization Electricity and Magnetism Intermediate Applied Microeconomics Real Estate Finance and Investment You can also visit the OLS homepage at … Read more

Scalability and Sociability in Online Learning Environments

April 19, 2004 by opencontent

This is a draft of a book chapter explaining the theoretical foundations (at a high level) of our Open Learning Support project. Attempts to explain the why and how of informal self-organinzing learning communities in under 4000 words.