Filed under: education
I am mightily “chuffed” as the English would say.
I previously worked for ISKME, a non-profit education research group, where one of our projects was the development of an open education content site, the Open Education Resources (OER) Commons. I recently found out that the OER Commons has been nominated as an Education Award Laureate by the San Jose Tech Museum, which was a real honor. Check out all the other nominees and other categories here.
There is such an amazing variety of online education materials, we wanted to construct a space where anyone interested in learning –whether it be educators, students, or just curious individuals– could create and share, especially as everyone involved in education is struggling to meet the challenges of finding new curricula, new pedagogies, and new literacies in our current digital landscape. While the OER Commons was never viewed as the panacea for education, we really felt that the concept of an open education commons would be a good first step reconfiguring the educational paradigm by marrying community and content in the spirit of openness.
