How you can help with an Edupunk Guide to getting accredited qualifications DIY-style
Posted by David Jennings on February 21, 2011 · Leave a Comment
This looks like it could be a very useful extension and update of Anya Kamenetz’s DIYU book (the guide at the end of that book took too much for granted in terms of sticking with established education providers). Click through to the original post if you can help make suggestions to Anya to inform this guide, which is being supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
(And sorry I’ve been lax in posting much here recently.)
The Edupunk’s Guide to a DIY Credential will be an e-book distributed free on the web in summer 2011.* The primary goal is to reach low-income students and potential students to help them find alternative paths to a credential using online and open resources. The secondary goal is to reach educators and administrators interested in incorporating the latest technology, social media, and collaborative learning into their approaches in order to cut costs while improving learning, socialization, and accreditation both inside and outside the classroom.
I’m excited about doing something I didn’t get to do for DIY U, which is talk to learners. I’ve already interviewed about 35 learners from all walks of life, and plan to do over 100. In fact, earlier this week at Cal State-San Bernadino I met the mythical Patient Zero of online learning. Joseph is going to a state school to save money, majoring in Economics and getting perfect grades. He shows up to class only to take the tests, preferring to spend his time reading Michael Chabon and Jonathan Lethem novels and playing music. Instead he learns the material using MIT Open Courseware, TED Talks and Khan Academy. He even tutors and delights in pointing other students toward these open resources.
Here’s what I’d love to learn more about:
-Alternative higher ed programs, particularly for credentialing prior learning, experiential learning, self-learning. I know about Excelsior. What else?
-Really smart HR people who are thinking about recruitment given the world of open learning.
-Really smart people I haven’t interviewed yet, who you think I should.
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