Minds on Fire

Simple Middle Advanced

10 Oct 09

Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE

Writing/analyzing for an audience makes output/research more authentic and therefore encourages the author to articulate thoughts/ideas more carefully. It makes sense that working with real scientists would make students more invested in their learning.

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• The Internet has also fostered a new culture of sharing, one in which content is freely contributed and distributed with few restrictions or costs.
• The project’s website includes reports of how students, under the guidance of professional astronomers, are using the Faulkes telescopes to make small but meaningful contributions to astronomy.