Edstartup

This month is the one year anniversary of Lumen Learning, the “RedHat for OER” I founded with Kim Thanos in October, 2012. It’s been an incredible first year, and we’ve learned a million lessons along the way - and we continue to learn more about what it takes to support OER adoption at scale every day. We’ve pulled together a summary of what’s happening with our post-secondary work for fall semester 2013 in a press release posted on the Lumen site, which begins: ...

Last week I wrote about the many goals I have for the open education movement, and how a Fellowship from the Shuttleworth Foundation is enabling me to spend focused time pursuing them. While I tried to lay out a compelling vision of what I want to accomplish last week, I didn’t discuss the how. Clearly, accomplishing a set of goals of that scope and magnitude requires more energy and productive capacity than any one person could ever muster. ...

Educators are frequently criticized for being disconnected from reality, with insults along the lines of “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.” I’m very cognizant of these criticisms and agree that there’s terrific danger in faculty remaining disconnected from the “real world” while trying to prepare student to thrive out in it. One of the things I’ve enjoyed most about EdStartup 101 is the opportunity to really dig in on issues relating to entrepreneurship in education not just academically, but in the “real world” as well. ...

For several months now I’ve been working with a great group of people on Degreed. Today we launched the public beta at the HASTAC/MacArthur grantees meeting (the Mozilla open badges functionality in Degreed is supported by a DML grant). So what does it do? Degreed eliminates the distinction between formal and informal learning by jailbreaking your college transcript and interweaving Mozilla open badges and other informal credentials together with your college courses. We help you categorize these formal and informal credentials in order to create a credential remix that allows you to showcase everything you know - not just what you learned in school. Unlike your college transcript, your Degreed profile continues to grow as you continue to learn throughout life. ...