Carolyn Fox

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Carolyn Fox is an educator, librarian, historian, and an un/homeschooling mother. She lives in Massachusetts with her UK husband and son.

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Open education, open source, and the dilemma over e-textbooks

Forty years ago, John Holt wondered whether an educational revolution as profound as open education could survive unless it became part of a wider and deeper movement of…

How to do open research: 5 basic principles

Open source creates a more compassionate global education

Rock legend Roger Waters, of Pink Floyd fame has asked many interesting questions (in song). This one (posted on his website) might be one you don’t expect: “Will the…

OER Commons a step forward, but needs improvement

Teachers and students have a new portal to find open educational resources: OER Commons. It is the first comprehensive open learning network where teachers and students from…

State standards, open source, and Universal Design for Learning

Common Core State Standards and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) have designed standards and frameworks to support learning in the classroom. However, their approaches on…

How open educational resources from pre-K to 12th grade present accessibility problems

Digital technology and open educational resources have enormous potential and power with young children. For parents of special needs children, especially those who are blind…

Nepal and the impact of open source

Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world with many gender, educational, and digital divides. Yet it is gradually being transformed by open source and digital…

Authored Comments

wivenhoe

23 Sep 2013

Coursefork: a new way to collaborate on open education

Excellent Jason! An open source is the the future for education and will revolutionize it across the globe.

wivenhoe

26 Aug 2013

City of Boston teams up with edX to create BostonX

Parag, I do agree with you on the co-op idea.

Kio Stark has a list of collaborative learning systems (such as einztein.com or socialmediaclassroom.com) and ways learners can interact on a local basis (ie. tradeschool.coop) in her book, Don't Go Back to School, but this is somewhat limited and largely restricted to adult learners or older teens and probably geographically.

For younger children, there are some online coops where they can learn or interact, but again they are somewhat limited and restricted. In the UK, IGGY (https://www.iggy.net/) and Potential Plus (http://www.potentialplusuk.org/) are two sites aimed at gifted kids that offer unique learning possibilities and interactions. In the US, Dweeber (http://www.dweeber.com/) offers kids (ages 13+) a chance to learn together too, but I think the groups already have to be pre-arranged.

Flat Classroom Project (http://www.flatclassroomproject.org/) pushes the ideas of a co-op further by being global and aimed at young kids, but is copyrighted and is a set program designed and controlled by teachers.