The Open Learning Initiative (OLI)
“Using intelligent tutoring systems, virtual laboratories, simulations, and frequent opportunities for assessment and feedback, the Open Learning Initiative (OLI) builds courses that are intended to enact instruction – or, more precisely, to enact the kind of dynamic, flexible, and responsive instruction that fosters learning.”
Here’s how I’m approaching Personal Knowledge Management — from learninggeneralist.com
Original resource from:
Grant Writers, Get Ready. Bill Gates Is Fired Up About Online Learning. — from The Chronicle, by Marc Parry
The quote below is from the Gates Foundation’s 2010 Annual Letter:
“The foundation has made a few grants to drive online learning, but we are just at the start of this work. So far technology has hardly changed formal education at all. But a lot of people, including me, think this is the next place where the Internet will surprise people in how it can improve things—especially in combination with face-to-face learning. With the escalating costs of education, an advance here would be very timely (emphasis DSC).“
Paul Simbeck-Hampson has some good thoughts on the term “learning ecosystem” — check them out.
I think, as this blog progresses, blended learning will definitely be a very important element of a learning ecosystem, as it combines the best of both worlds:
I am working on a graphic for “The House of Instruction“. Given all of the building blocks out there, how do we best build such a house? Which materials get used? Can we use them all and let students select which “blocks” work for them?
