Saturday, November 04, 2006

OU's OpenLearn Contrasted with MIT's OpenCourseWare This blog entry by Seb Schmoller explores the similarities and difference between the Open University approach to open content and the MIT OpenCourseWare approach. It's valuable to have both approaches well underway and available to learners and teachers. _____JH ________ "Unlike MIT's OpenCourseWare, the OU is publishing complete chunks of structured curriculum, between 3 and 20 hours in duration (thus 'MIT with pedagogy'). In contrast, whereas MIT's OpenCourseWare aims to publish learning materials for virtually all of MIT courses, OpenLearn when the current grant runs out in 2008 will cover 5% of the OU's courses - around 8000 hours of learning content (thus 'MIT without completeness').  A good way to find out about the general 'ins' and 'outs' of OpenLearn is from its FAQ page."       3:09:06 PM    COMMENT []