“Universities in Europe are looking to embrace a new form of learning, called open content, which could blow away the division between university students and the rest of the population. In the UK, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the Higher Education Academy are launching a £5.7 million (US$7.9 million) pilot scheme to investigate the impact of open content and to look at issues of how to contextualise existing online material so anyone can make sense of it. Several European academics are already experimenting and the European Commission has expressed interest. Malcolm Read, executive secretary of JISC, says he wants to find out how many lecturers are willing to put their course material up for open debate and how difficult it will be to contextualise the material …” (more)
[Mandy Garner, University World News, 25 January]