One of the things I’ve tuned into lately is the proliferation of free online courses offered by scholars in the open education and open culture movements. Anyone with an interest in the subject and an internet connection can enroll in these online courses, and it is often possible to arrange for credit through one’s home university by getting a faculty advisor to sign on to the plan.
Stephen Downes and George Siemens teach a course on Connectivism & Connective Knowledge which they offer through the University of Manitoba’s Learning Technologies Center and the Division of Extended Education as part of a just-announced Interdisciplinary Certificate in Emerging Technologies for Learning.
Another standout offering courtesy of David Wiley at Brigham Young University is Introduction to Open Education 2009.
Although I’m not at this time actively participating in these courses, I am following their development and making use of some of the high quality resources they so conveniently aggregate. In that spirit I share a video of Wiley’s introductory lecture:
