QFI’s approach to Open Education is one that is driven by context, aimed at developing a learner-centered experience, one that is real, rich, and relevant to the world around us. QFI’s commitment to the Open Education movement provides opportunities to create social learning communities for educators, dedicated to resource discovery, standards aligned content, authorship and life-long learning.
Below is a selection of QFI’s ‘Open Education’ projects:
“Open Ed” is a thirty-second video, that stitches together fragments of physical abandon captured at ISKME’s Big Ideas Fest 2012. Since 2009, hundreds of educators, students, entrepreneurs, researchers, philanthropists, and education technologists have attended the Big Ideas Fest to collaborate — by brainstorming, designing and hands-on prototyping — on ways to create educational change.
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I’m always reaching to see the ‘intertwingled’ — a term coined by computer scientist Theodor Nelson to describe knowledge that is related and is often connected by cause and effect. The intertwingled nature of human knowledge represents a primary frontier of scientific inquiry in the 21st century, as scientists increasingly examine the nature of interdependent social and natural systems.
As states put their plans into place for Common Core State Standard implementation, many are realizing how Open Educational Resources (OER) and open practices play an essential role in accessing the true power of the Common Core. The opportunity for sharing and collaboration in education has been amplified, because for the first time, 47 states share the same Mathematics and English Language Arts learning standards.
Last Monday, during her final week as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton commanded the attention of a global education force field from the State Department, the Arab League, the Department of Education, and a group of representatives from other national and international education organizations and institutions with a simple, but radical idea–education diplomacy–and a road map of how to achieve it.