With this month marking the tenth anniversary of MIT OpenCourseWare — in which MIT offers free access to things such as course syllabi, lecture notes, exams and so forth — the edu-tech blog Mindshift (part of the Argo news blog network that I belong to) has a list of ways it has “freed” education.
The main list:
- CREATING THE MOLD
- GOING GLOBAL
- DEMOCRATIZING HIGH-QUALITY EDUCATION
- ALLOWING CUSTOMIZATION
- ENCOURAGING SHARING
- EMPOWERING EDUCATORS
- PROVIDING VALUABLE CONTENT
- ENABLING LIFELONG LEARNING
- REINFORCING THE COLLEGE EXPERIENCE
- DEMONSTRATING THE NEED FOR MORE