Open source teaching

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Contents 1 Open source teaching 2 References 3 Internal Links 4 External Links

[edit] Open source teaching

Open source teaching (OST) is a platform that utilizes emerging technologies to facilitate shared learning and the development of communities. OST redefines the relationship between learners by eliminating the barriers of time and distance. OST provides learners with simultaneously real-time and time-independent access to the ideas of people with varying degrees of experience, expertise, points of view, knowledge, and skills.

Open source teaching provides new strategies and opportunities for individuals to engage in the shared investigation of common challenges. These methods are applied using emerging communication platforms and generally include components of the following:

• Shared communication using an open source web space, available to all users, including the direct archiving and tracking of individual comments by all users.

• An open source induction and user agreement, outlining the fundamental truths for communication within each shared web space.

• Archived record of communication and dialogue, providing a common basis for learning and discussion among all users, including the direct tracking of files which are accessed.

• The investigation of relevant research, current events, challenges, and case studies related to the academic, professional, or social challenge.

• A final shared work product that requires shared collaboration among teams of participants and the collective community for the assigned web space.

[edit] References

• The Future of Open Source, MIT, Open Source Initiaive
• Democratizing Innovation, MIT Press 2005
• Sharing and Creating Open Source Communities
• Open Source and E-learning
• Open Source, Beyond Software
• Implementing Learning Design Macquarie E-learning Centre of Excellence (MELCOE) Macquarie University, AUSTRALIA
• New Approaches to Intellectual property, MIT, Open Source Initiative
• Open Source Philsophy, MIT, Open Source Initiative
• Open Source as a Viable Economic Model, MIT, Open Source Initiative

[edit] Internal Links

Open source

Open source movement

Open source government

Open standard

Open format

Open research

Shared source

Open design

Brooks' law

[edit] External Links

• Macquarie E-Learning Centre Of Excellence (MELCOE), Professor James Dalziel, Founding Innovator
• Open Source Teaching Resources, MELCOE
• The Open Source Teaching Method
• The Birth of Open Source Teaching
• Learning Activity Management System (LAMS)
• The Open Source Initiative
• The LAMS Foundation
• LAMS
• Think Link
• Ed Tech Post
• LAMS Community
• Open Source for Developing Countries: Looking for Penguins at the Horn of Africa