Richard Baraniuk: Goodbye, textbooks; hello, open-source learning



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http://www.ted.com Rice University professor Richard Baraniuk explains the vision behind Connexions, his open-source, online education system. It cuts out the textbook, allowing teachers to share and modify course materials freely, anywhere in the world.
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This vision is ... ( 1 year ago by jjfbbennett)
This vision is inspirational. We do need strategies as at this moment education is stuck somewhere between the traditional and Richard's vision It is the foreseeable future but it will require a determination that I do not presently observe. In large our schools are stuck and are becoming ever so irrelevant to this contemporary generation.
I am a high school ... ( 1 year ago by redibis07)
I am a high school teacher. This is beautiful and I will let other teachers, parents, etc. know about Connexions. I used to work as a website prod. manager and often search for education-technology resources. I just launched a blog and will definately talke about this... Great, no fantastic!!
"Illiterates escape ... ( 1 year ago by neothomist1275)
"Illiterates escape certain temptations, such as vacuous and vicious reading. Perhaps we are prone to put too high a value both upon the ability required to attain this art and the discipline involved in doing so." G. Stanley Hall, creator of the 'look-say' reading system e.g. 'Dick and Jane' which was designed to break down sound/symbol relationships by having the child guess at the whole word.
Right, Wiki and now ... ( 1 year ago by jojo808)
Right, Wiki and now Google-books. If kids like me had XML growing up , Man! Custom content. Like when adult asked kids "what do you want to be when you grow up Jonny?" I would have loved to say "I'm working on that now because you haven't created it yet" =D
For more info on ... ( 1 year ago by eddyjohns)
For more info on online education check out
a1onlinecourses(.)com
Public Schools are ... ( 1 year ago by jbryant13)
Public Schools are a form of "Cultural Imperialism"
Check out a TED Talk titled
Do schools today kill creativity? (Ken Robinson, TEDTalks)
i would rather have ... ( 1 year ago by shelleycorbin)
i would rather have the old records, my new computer doesnt reconnize my mp3 music when i transferred ,my files over. its a good idea, but technology isnt everything, especially in a blackout.
i love LP! ( 1 year ago by thisisapreviewvideo)
i love LP!
i learn global..i ... ( 1 year ago by thisisapreviewvideo)
i learn global..i learn all the stuff online..without internet im a cave man
If the project has ... ( 1 year ago by fefulin)
If the project has so much freedom ... why isn't the software licensed by GNU General Public License (as Wikipedia - MediaWiki) ?
Is it not?! Surely ... ( 10 months ago by thelevellers)
Is it not?! Surely every bit of software he's mentioned he said was 'open source'? And that (if you didn;t know) means in effect that it is GNU...
America is too ... ( 10 months ago by freddy2btrue)
America is too capitalistic,greedy,and economic controlling to offer free college education to the masses,Beside who will be left to do the dirty work that most people rather not do.
America claims to ... ( 10 months ago by freddy2btrue)
America claims to be the richest country,However many are economically exploited,oppressed,disadvantaged,and simply don't have a chance to persue their college education in this evil system.
a1onlinecourses(.) ... ( 9 months ago by eddyjohns)
a1onlinecourses(.)com
Some universities ... ( 8 months ago by sm4096)
Some universities are making available advanced lecture series online under creative commons. You only need one instance of a course to be available for free. Information we learn we share. The system is in the process of changeling itself. The most openly shared information is the most free to grow,be learned copied and emulated and finally built upon. I woke and found I wasn't dreaming. I looked and found a lecture series from college online of advanced courses for me at my pleasure to view.
Finland the best ... ( 6 months ago by Darusdei)
Finland the best education in the world!
whole education from start to the academic level totaly free for eeeeveryone :)
bad side prolly is that finnish is a bit hard to learn :)
now this is ... ( 5 months ago by system0slaven)
now this is something for me !!!
This is what i like Ywah
"Many are..." Yeah ... ( 4 months ago by neestle)
"Many are..." Yeah? How many? And even if I were to agree with your Bolshevik definition of exploitation, to which other country would you point as an ideal?
Strange that this terrible country is the well-spring of virtually all open-source education right now. Bourgeois Oppressors!
History, worldwide political trends, and mass human migration made the ruling on your worldview a long time ago. Learn. Grow. Evolve.
Maybe (just maybe) ... ( 4 months ago by fefulin)
Maybe (just maybe) Free Software (GPL) is not the same as 'open source'. I would suggest you to read Why "Free Software" is better than "Open Source" from Richard Stallman if you have any doubt
Array ( 3 months ago by markmillionaire)
Love The Video
It Is Awesome
Keep It Going
This is a similar ... ( 3 months ago by nicholasmacgowan)
This is a similar concept which twidox is working on
It's paid for by ... ( 2 months ago by threebobs)
It's paid for by threat of murder.
You forgot that part.
Who's gonna take ... ( 3 weeks ago by KorlaPlankton)
Who's gonna take that pay cut? Or a better question is: Who's gonna dictate who's gonna take the pay cut?
Its a great idea that works perfectly in theory. As soon as it is implemented into reality it is flawed and unsustainable.
Who thinks that office politics and social hierarchy will not have any bearing on a co-worker who has a "paid for" degree and one who got one of them new-fangled "free" ones?
If I didn't know any better I would think that Snowball from Animal Farm was talking.
Wikipedia? ( 2 hours ago by GoMattG0)
Wikipedia?



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