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New book: Opening Up Education

October 1st, 2008 Posted by: l.dewis

Leaders across the open educational resources movement have got together to author a book about “the potential of open education to transform the economics and ecology of education”.

Chapters are available as free PDF downloads on the MIT Press website and you can find out more about the book at The Hitchhikers Guide to Opening Up Education.

There are also video interviews with the authors, including this one from OpenLearn’s Director Professor Andy Lane.

If you want to speak to the editors Toru Iiyoshi and Vijay Kumar, along with John Seely Brown, who wrote the book’s foreword, get online tomorrow, Thursday, October 2, 2008 11 PDT/2 EDT/ 6 GMT at http://commons.carnegiefoundation.org/openingupeducation.

The book has some great endorsements from Robert Abel, CEO, IMS Global Learning Consortium who says:

“Whether we realize it or not, improving the cost and scale of quality education is the challenge that underlies all other challenges to the human race. The significance of this groundbreaking book is that it elucidates new business models and technologies that are needed to support educators worldwide in creating the breakthroughs needed.”

and C. Judson King, Director, Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley:

“This book is probably the most comprehensive collection of writings to date on the open education movement. It paints a picture of numerous experiments and roads started upon in an arena that is still in its infancy but which offers many major possibilities for transformation of education. Where these roads lead and which are most fertile are still unanswerable questions. But there is no better starting point than this book.”

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