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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20894\" class=\"wp-caption center\" style=\"max-width: 620px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/goincase/5227334827/sizes/z/in/photostream/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-20894\" title=\"5227334827_80de8a689f_z\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/04/5227334827_80de8a689f_z-620x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flickr: Incase\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch5>By Nathan Maton\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\">Back in 2001, MIT launched \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocw.mit.edu/\">OpenCourseWare\u003c/a>, a bold idea to put world-class MIT professors’ lectures, syllabi and resources online \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/04/10-ways-open-courseware-has-freed-education/\">to the world for free\u003c/a>. Today, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/open-education-resources/\">Open Education Resources\u003c/a> (OER) industry leaders \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201204091000\">are arguing that the free content \u003c/a>is only the starting point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next stage of the open education movement has evolved into Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) -- the key word being \"massive,\" as in drawing tens or hundreds of thousands of students. Last fall, Sebastian Thrun's Artificial Intelligence course \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/08/stanford-for-everyone-more-than-120000-enroll-in-free-classes/\">enrolled 160,000 students\u003c/a> and Thrun recently gave up tenure at Stanford to start \u003ca href=\"mailto:http://www.udacity.com/\">Udacity\u003c/a>, a company that will offer more MOOCs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at such a huge scale, what are the digital methods of teaching that work best? Philipp Schmidt, founder of the free online university \u003ca href=\"mailto:http://p2pu.org/en/\">P2PU,\u003c/a> preaches three building blocks: community, recognition and content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was totally clear to me [several years ago] that content is only the starting point,” Schmidt said at recently at a SXSW session. “The really exciting stuff is going to be the learning, the assessments and the stuff that you need the content for. In a way, we started P2PU because institutions weren't doing it. 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But that’s not how Steve Carson, director of external affairs for OpenCourseWare, describes the benefits of their project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most exciting thing is that the last six months of open education have been spectacularly disruptive,” Carson says. “It was kind of a sleepy enterprise for the last 10 years where MIT was doing its thing and there were other projects doing their thing. It was all good and there were positive global benefits, but in the past 10 years I've heard people say campus-based education \u003c!--more-->better look out, that this will be threatening to their business model, and I've never really felt that until the last six months. The pace of change in open education is qualitatively different than it was even a few months ago.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carson argues that MIT’s work is merely a necessary transitory experiment. It only puts classes and course material online, but you still have to watch, frequently from the back of the room, as the professor lectures students. He compares it to Wikipedia. MIT’s videos and materials provide deep references on a subject -- but not the actual courses themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carson is a big fan of Schmidt’s work. At P2PU, they run online courses that can be taught by a peer (you can create your own course), and they heavily promote the social part of learning. They have a peer mentor program to help students get through their courses and have the most users teaching web development courses, although Schmidt says they'll be doing less of that. Schmidt believes that even with all the OER in the world, the way people learn is by being excited about it, by making things (even if it is just a blog post) and working together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The things I care most about is collaborative skills, are you a good communicator, can you get stuff done?” Schmidt says. “I think that's the number one thing that isn't being assessed anywhere that is super important. That's what you ask when someone wants a job from you: do they get stuff done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carson likes Schmidt’s focus on community, recognition and content because he argues it is more important to discover successful learning techniques rather than merely sign up 100,000 students online. He sees promoting big-sized classes as a way to bring attention to the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think one of the higher level struggles these MOOCs are injecting themselves into is to change the way higher education as it is practiced on campus,\" Carson said. \"It is an opportunity to show faculty members different ways the Internet can support learning.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And what exactly is the problem all these groups are trying to solve? 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A college degree has served not just as a status symbol, but also proof that graduates have mastered a subject and can put the knowledge they've acquired in school to practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the value of a college degree is being questioned by those who wonder if there's a better alternative. With free, high-quality education available online, and a growing new movement around \u003ca href=\"http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/the-college-solution/2011/10/04/digital-badges-could-significantly-impact-higher-education\">nontraditional ways of earning credit for expertise\u003c/a> through digital badges (a digital portfolio of sorts that includes credit for online courses, traditional college courses, and workplace achievements), colleges must find new ways of staying relevant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Distilling a recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/education/edlife/the-evolution-of-higher-education.html?ref=edlife#\">New York Times interview\u003c/a> with Richard DeMillo, director of the Center for 21st Century Universities at \u003ca href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/g/georgia_institute_of_technology/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">Georgia Institute of Technology\u003c/a> and author of \u003cem>Abelard to Apple: The Fate of American Colleges and Universities\u003c/em>, a few imperatives are becoming clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>INFORMATION IS PRICELESS\u003c/strong>. With MIT’s \u003ca href=\"http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm\">OpenCourseWare\u003c/a> – the university’s classes offered online for free – as well as a long list of other \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/10/open-education-sites-offer-free-content-for-all/\">quality free educational resources\u003c/a>, the public perception of what holds value in education has changed. Facts and how-to’s are freely available to anyone with Internet access. So why pay upwards of $40,000 a year in tuition? “OpenCourseWare was an important signpost that hammered home the point that the content \u003c!--more-->of a university course was being rapidly commoditized by technology,” DeMillo said \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/education/edlife/the-evolution-of-higher-education.html?ref=edlife#\">in the interview\u003c/a> with \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> reporter Tamar Lewin. “If you [college professor] think your value is in 13 weeks of lectures, then exams, it’s true that that’s probably not going to be as valuable in the future.”\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>GO STRAIGHT TO THE SOURCE. \u003c/strong>When faced with a huge drop in enrollment in the computer science program at Georgia Tech after the dot-com bust, DeMillo had to find a way to lure students back at a time when everyone believed tech jobs would be outsourced to other countries. Rather than confer with the insular academic community, DeMillo looked out to the real world for advice. He spoke to dozens of video game companies about what they were looking for in computer science grads. “They said they needed people who not only know the technology but were skilled in the art of storytelling, the narrative arc,” he \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/education/edlife/the-evolution-of-higher-education.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&ref=edlife&adxnnlx=1322501316-er4lPqd7blWTfdYZ7NLwSQ#\">told the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. Armed with this knowledge, he reconfigured the computer science department to allow students to choose two \"interdisciplinary threads,” like computing and media. 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"content": "\u003cdiv id=\"attachment_10634\" class=\"module image aligncenter mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"width: 406px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/cricristina/5542560570/sizes/m/in/photostream/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10634\" title=\"CriCristina\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/04/CriCristina.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"406\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/04/CriCristina.jpg 406w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/04/CriCristina-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/04/CriCristina-320x214.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003cp class=\"credit\">Flickr:CriCristina\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>This month marks the \u003ca href=\"http://ocw.mit.edu/about/next-decade/\">tenth anniversary\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm\">MIT OpenCourseWare\u003c/a>, the university's initiative to provide free and open access to its core academic content -- the syllabi, lecture notes, problem sets and solutions, exams, reading lists, and event video lectures from over 2000 MIT course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision by the MIT faculty in 2001 to allow anyone to use their course content was a seminal move, one that had a profound effect on democratizing education. 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