Here are my notes from some of Cathy Casserly’s (William and Flora Hewlett Foundation) opening remarks here at CCNMTL’s Video, Education and Open Content conference:
How do we integrate new media technologies with new methods for teaching and learning? Right now they seem like two separate tracks. How do we make that much more pervasive? The goal is to be able to not only put out great content, but it’s about searchability, whether audio, video or text. There are many gems out there, but they are difficult to find. Hewlett has been working with Google and other search companies to address the issues of discoverability. CCLearn (Creative Commons) – focus on teaching and learning
Hewlett is working on an open URLs database with an OER search to help people find opencourseware, lesson plans, audio, video, etc. These databases will be open. They are looking for folks to help them build out the list of open URLs, as a way to find the high quality content and educational resources.
