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MIT OpenCourseWare Turns 10: What's Next for Open Education?

45 points by Straubiz 16y ago

woan 16y ago
Congrats to MIT for such a valuable service!
Straubiz 16y ago
Knowledge is becoming a commodity thanks to this kind of initiatives
dwc 16y ago
MIT OCW is very cool, and they were front runners. What's next? Putting more course materials on the net isn't really it. What should be next is much more challenging, but has immense payoffs... something like Khan Academy is doing with personalized learning. How awesome would it be if MIT did something like that, incorporating some of their incredible material?
- rick_2047 16y ago
  People need to understand OCW and Khan Academy serve two very different purposes. OCW was made to make the awesome materials generated by MIT profs to the general public, while Khan Academy was made specifically for the purpose of giving personalised learning. In my view both of them are noble causes and non of them should be abandoned, you can teach very less material in 10 mins after you cross the K 12 level. For covering one lesson in at the undergraduate level you definitely need at least half an hour.
- filiwickers 16y ago
  Their first intent when creating OCW was actually for professors to connect: "We set out to create a resource other faculty could draw on to improve their classes..." It seems independent learners were an after-thought. There is immense amount of free educational content out there right now. The next step from here may be challenging. All of the what is available is great for independent learning. But the tools for engaging and collaborating with other students or professors is lacking. We need something to connect teachers, students, independent learners together with the library of free material. Provide simple tools for collaboration inside documents like notes, bookmarks, etc. Add more extensive tools for authoring documents together. The Khan Academy is great. But imagine giving the professor the ability to weave those videos and exercises into a textbook built from a library of other creative commons books. That would be exciting stuff.
  - Mizza 16y ago
    There are companies working on this! I wish I had a link, but there was a talk about this at the 2010 Students for Free Culture conference in DC.
Mizza 16y ago
cough cough http://noteshub.org http://noteshub.org cough
johndbritton 16y ago
Peer 2 Peer University is what's next. Think of it as a social wrapper around free educational content. http://p2pu.org http://p2pu.org
- hallmark 16y ago
  I know this may sound as if I'm just trying to make a dirty joke, but I am being sincere. To me, the domain reads, "pee 2 poo dot org" Yes it's a short domain, but is it a good branding choice? I see you work at Twilio, so if you aren't involved with P2PU, that's cool.
nickik 16y ago
I would love to see more videos spezially the compiler and PL courses. That would be awesome!
27182818284 16y ago
For the next step I would love to see: • A standard across multiple courses so that you don't have some courses publishing assignments and recorded lectures while others just post assignments. • A new degree type. Not an associate's degree nor a bachelor's degree, but a lesser degree that could be earned completely online from a solid institutions like MIT.
- patrickod 16y ago
  As a student who will have time over the summer for such things I would really like to see credible online degrees in the area. Not even for something to put on a CV but something that shows that you are familiar with the content on some level. I would think that 2nd level students could really benefit from it as well as a qualification before they enter college courses.
- tardis 16y ago
  There are Bachelor of Arts/Sciences (3-year General) that can be earned completely online (I'm sure you've heard of Open University in the UK but there's also University of Waterloo in Canada - http://de.uwaterloo.ca/undergraduate.html http://de.uwaterloo.ca/undergraduate.html). For UW, I know they offer certificates too (you just need to complete X number of specific courses but definitely less than what you need in a 3 or 4 year degree). Unfortunately though, they do charge tuition.
pinguar 16y ago
Existing for 10 years doesn't mean it's perfect. I still cannot find video lectures of many math & statistics course at MIT OCW (course slides as PDF's are not really helpful). What I would like to see is the entire curriculum of e.g. Computer Science undergrad program at MIT (with video lectures). Of course, it is a dream.
emit_time_n3rgy 16y ago
Communities of convergence, aggregation...students and educators communicating more effectively, more foreign language translations of content, sharing & combining what's been mentioned here as well as Khan Academy + Bittorrent http://www.hackeducation.com/2011/02/11/khan-academy-and-bittorrent-partner-to-distribute-educational-videos/ http://www.hackeducation.com/2011/02/11/khan-academy-and-bit... Gaming: http://www.phibetaiota.net/2010/09/video-visions-of-the-gamepocalypse-possible-futures-waking-up-thinking-and-creating-a-better-world/ http://www.phibetaiota.net/2010/09/video-visions-of-the-game... + http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~rich/courses/imgd404x-c11/playable.html http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~rich/courses/imgd404x-c11/playable.ht... http://hackety-hack.com http://hackety-hack.com http://cnx.org http://cnx.org http://www.writework.com http://www.writework.com http://www.fhsst.org http://www.fhsst.org http://www.unclasses.org http://www.unclasses.org http://www.coursehero.com http://www.coursehero.com http://www.varsitynotes.com http://www.varsitynotes.com http://www.livemocha.com http://www.livemocha.com (language) http://openstudy.com http://openstudy.com Connecting educators & students to communicate more effectively using these and more: http://edublogs.org http://edublogs.org http://www.connectedprincipals.com http://www.connectedprincipals.com http://www.edweek.org/ew/section/blogs/index.html http://www.edweek.org/ew/section/blogs/index.html http://piratepad.net http://piratepad.net http://primarypad.com http://primarypad.com http://typewith.me http://typewith.me http://sync.in http://sync.in http://sketchpad.cc http://sketchpad.cc

45 points by Straubiz 16y ago

woan 16y ago

Congrats to MIT for such a valuable service!

Straubiz 16y ago

Knowledge is becoming a commodity thanks to this kind of initiatives

dwc 16y ago

MIT OCW is very cool, and they were front runners. What's next? Putting more course materials on the net isn't really it. What should be next is much more challenging, but has immense payoffs... something like Khan Academy is doing with personalized learning. How awesome would it be if MIT did something like that, incorporating some of their incredible material?

rick_2047 16y ago
People need to understand OCW and Khan Academy serve two very different purposes. OCW was made to make the awesome materials generated by MIT profs to the general public, while Khan Academy was made specifically for the purpose of giving personalised learning. In my view both of them are noble causes and non of them should be abandoned, you can teach very less material in 10 mins after you cross the K 12 level. For covering one lesson in at the undergraduate level you definitely need at least half an hour.
filiwickers 16y ago
Their first intent when creating OCW was actually for professors to connect: "We set out to create a resource other faculty could draw on to improve their classes..." It seems independent learners were an after-thought. There is immense amount of free educational content out there right now. The next step from here may be challenging. All of the what is available is great for independent learning. But the tools for engaging and collaborating with other students or professors is lacking. We need something to connect teachers, students, independent learners together with the library of free material. Provide simple tools for collaboration inside documents like notes, bookmarks, etc. Add more extensive tools for authoring documents together. The Khan Academy is great. But imagine giving the professor the ability to weave those videos and exercises into a textbook built from a library of other creative commons books. That would be exciting stuff.
- Mizza 16y ago
  There are companies working on this! I wish I had a link, but there was a talk about this at the 2010 Students for Free Culture conference in DC.

Mizza 16y ago

cough cough http://noteshub.org http://noteshub.org cough

johndbritton 16y ago

Peer 2 Peer University is what's next. Think of it as a social wrapper around free educational content. http://p2pu.org http://p2pu.org

hallmark 16y ago
I know this may sound as if I'm just trying to make a dirty joke, but I am being sincere. To me, the domain reads, "pee 2 poo dot org" Yes it's a short domain, but is it a good branding choice? I see you work at Twilio, so if you aren't involved with P2PU, that's cool.

nickik 16y ago

I would love to see more videos spezially the compiler and PL courses. That would be awesome!

27182818284 16y ago

For the next step I would love to see: • A standard across multiple courses so that you don't have some courses publishing assignments and recorded lectures while others just post assignments. • A new degree type. Not an associate's degree nor a bachelor's degree, but a lesser degree that could be earned completely online from a solid institutions like MIT.

patrickod 16y ago
As a student who will have time over the summer for such things I would really like to see credible online degrees in the area. Not even for something to put on a CV but something that shows that you are familiar with the content on some level. I would think that 2nd level students could really benefit from it as well as a qualification before they enter college courses.
tardis 16y ago
There are Bachelor of Arts/Sciences (3-year General) that can be earned completely online (I'm sure you've heard of Open University in the UK but there's also University of Waterloo in Canada - http://de.uwaterloo.ca/undergraduate.html http://de.uwaterloo.ca/undergraduate.html). For UW, I know they offer certificates too (you just need to complete X number of specific courses but definitely less than what you need in a 3 or 4 year degree). Unfortunately though, they do charge tuition.

pinguar 16y ago

Existing for 10 years doesn't mean it's perfect. I still cannot find video lectures of many math & statistics course at MIT OCW (course slides as PDF's are not really helpful). What I would like to see is the entire curriculum of e.g. Computer Science undergrad program at MIT (with video lectures). Of course, it is a dream.

emit_time_n3rgy 16y ago

Communities of convergence, aggregation...students and educators communicating more effectively, more foreign language translations of content, sharing & combining what's been mentioned here as well as Khan Academy + Bittorrent http://www.hackeducation.com/2011/02/11/khan-academy-and-bittorrent-partner-to-distribute-educational-videos/ http://www.hackeducation.com/2011/02/11/khan-academy-and-bit... Gaming: http://www.phibetaiota.net/2010/09/video-visions-of-the-gamepocalypse-possible-futures-waking-up-thinking-and-creating-a-better-world/ http://www.phibetaiota.net/2010/09/video-visions-of-the-game... + http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~rich/courses/imgd404x-c11/playable.html http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~rich/courses/imgd404x-c11/playable.ht... http://hackety-hack.com http://hackety-hack.com http://cnx.org http://cnx.org http://www.writework.com http://www.writework.com http://www.fhsst.org http://www.fhsst.org http://www.unclasses.org http://www.unclasses.org http://www.coursehero.com http://www.coursehero.com http://www.varsitynotes.com http://www.varsitynotes.com http://www.livemocha.com http://www.livemocha.com (language) http://openstudy.com http://openstudy.com Connecting educators & students to communicate more effectively using these and more: http://edublogs.org http://edublogs.org http://www.connectedprincipals.com http://www.connectedprincipals.com http://www.edweek.org/ew/section/blogs/index.html http://www.edweek.org/ew/section/blogs/index.html http://piratepad.net http://piratepad.net http://primarypad.com http://primarypad.com http://typewith.me http://typewith.me http://sync.in http://sync.in http://sketchpad.cc http://sketchpad.cc