OLnet: Researching the open world
Launched today at OER 2009, Monterey, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation is supporting The Open University and Carnegie Mellon University to develop the Open Learning Network — OLnet.
The aim of OLnet is to gather evidence and methods about how we can research and understand ways to learn in a more open world, particularly linked to Open Educational Resources (OER) but also looking at other influences.
The sociotechnical infrastructure that we will be putting in place will be a form of collective intelligence, enabling the community to pool and debate the evidence for the effectiveness of OERs and OER design tools, and the challenges facing the movement.
Right now we have a Research Fellowship on Collective Intelligence Infrastructure on offer…
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