Press Releases from The British Open University (2 total)
NetGeners.Net Pilot Course: The ne(x)t generation learner
It was quite a bit of work to pull together the different bits and pieces of the NetGeners.Net space, but now it looks like we have a good base for the start of the pilot course.
The full title of the course is “NetGeners.Net: The ne(x)t generation learner - Skills you need in lifelong learning knowledge and information societies”.
Firstly of all, this course is free: free to attend without any…
Free and Open Education: FLOSSCom Virtual & On-Campus Summer University
The European Union funded FLOSSCom research project is investigating Free / Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) communities as learning environments. The project aims to identify principles of FLOSS communities that could be transferred to educational settings, e.g. how the community model could help to improve education.
FLOSS communities might be described as one of the best examples of open and free education, where thousands of individuals, from very different educational…
