2011 SCoPE Seminars Summary

SCoPE Seminars Summary

A Framework for Academic Volunteers International: Forum | Summary

Designing OERu Credentials: Forum | Summary

• How would it work? What are OER making possible that wasn't possible before and how would an OERu help make that happen?
• Can we describe an affordable business model that will attract actual students? There is a movement in the US to build a $10K baccalaureate. What is the cost threshold that OERu seeks to achieve?
• What do you consider to be the major innovations of the OERu? What are the possible innovations the OERu should consider for the future? 
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Automating Instructional Design: Forum | Summary

• In an age of increasing collaborative technologies for learning, is ISD still relevant? Learning technologies have emphasized community learning as a new model (wikis, forums, blogs, etc.). But is ISD dead?
• Given all of your experience with online learning and facilitation, what best practices have you seen in higher education for online teaching and facilitation?
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Online Conferences: Professional Development for a Networked Era:  Forum | Summary

• How does having all of the recordings and content available online impact the level of participation during the event?
• Any ideas for how to create, capture, and share back channel conversations using simple cell phones (not smart phones)?
• I would love to hear about online conferences that you have participated in. What strategies and technologies were used to make it a worthwhile event?

OER University: Forum | Summary

• Children and young teens, and moreover most motivated and successful learners among them, are very poorly served by the existing college education system. Can OER university help?
• What mechanisms or processes should the OER university use for articulation of course credits?
• To what extent is OERs really going to contribute to the decrease of tuition fee to make education more affordable, especially in the developing world?
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