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[Stian Håklev]

We should be maintaining an up to date list of these somewhere! A "informal
learningpedia" ? :) I posted these to the P2PU internal list, and someone
pointed out that several had already closed (of Trebor's suggestions)

Stian

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Lucia Sommer <sommerlucia at gmail.com>wrote:

> Good points Trebor. A few more examples of informal or free learning
> projects:
>
> Bruce High Quality Foundation University:
> http://www.bhqfu.org/Site/home.html
>
> Free University Project:
> http://www.freeuniv.com/aboutbgr.html
>
>
> Best,
>
>
> Lucia
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Trebor Scholz <trebor at thing.net> wrote:
>
>> Education, caught up in a cost spiral, is in crisis. Tuition is on the
>> rise and in the foreseeable future, higher education will be as
>> unaffordable as a Prada bag. Anya Kamenetz' DIY U frames that well.
>>
>> The future lies neither solely in distance education nor in informal
>> personal learning networks but rather in hybrid approaches. What we are
>> witnessing now are dress rehearsals where "e.learning" is trying on the
>> role of the cash cow that can deliver it all and DIY universities
>> sometimes make it sound as if they are the panacea. The reality is
>> somewhere in between. In the years to come, the university will lose
>> some of its centrality to informal learning projects (1) and variants of
>> profit-driven courseware. Let's stop pretending that this is not
>> happening. To succeed, however, the university will need to up its game
>> and make its boundaries more porous by meaningfully integrating emerging
>> ways of knowing and new social media (2).
>>
>> (1) Please send more examples of informal learning projects.
>> The Public School (http://nyc.thepublicschool.org/)
>> University of the People (http://www.uopeople.org/)
>> University of Openess (http://uo.twenteenthcentury.com/)
>> Copenhagen Free University
>> (http://www.copenhagenfreeuniversity.dk/index.html)
>> Manoa Free University (http://manoafreeuniversity.org/)
>> EduFactory (http://www.edu-factory.org/)
>> Radical Education Collective (http://radical.temp.si/)
>> Free Slow University of Warsaw (http://www.wuw2009.pl/index.php?lang=eng)
>> Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry (http://www.tsci.ca/)
>>
>> (2) I suggest some implementations of social media in the classroom in
>> this slideshow: http://tinyurl.com/c2l6wy
>>
>>
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