Edstartup

Open education has been an odd duck for the past decade. The overwhelming majority of the activity in the space has been in OER. People and institutions have found ways to openly license educational materials, posted these on a website, and hung the “Mission Accomplished” banner on their aircraft carriers. It reminds me of the Voyager Golden Record, content shared by being blasted out into space in the hopes that someone will eventually find and use it. Once we successfully launched, our obligations were met. “Sure hope somebody locates and learns from that. If they do, maybe they’ll send an email to let us know.” ...

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Our open online class on entrepreneurship in education, EdStartup 101, is starting this coming Monday! The most useful thing we did when we put the word out about the course was to invite interested people to fill out a simple form. We hoped this would give us an idea of what type of people were coming. A few weeks later, 850 people have indicated their intention to participate in the course. Fortunately for us, Google Forms has a handy feature that auto visualizes form responses. So, in case you’re interested, here are a few characteristics of the EdStartup 101 participants. ...