Dick Ngambi invited me to speak with Masters students at University of Cape Town as part of his course on “Educational ICTs for Developing Contexts”. I am chuffed to be invited back – last year we had a very lively discussion on creating an African version of Michael Wesch’s youtube sensation. This year I will be speaking about “OER beyond content” and especially Peer 2 Peer University and its relevance and opportunities for developing countries.

Dick asked me for a few readings to distribute in advance. I sent him the following, but would love suggestions on what to add to the list.

• Openness, Dynamic Specialization, and the Disaggregated Future of Higher Education

David Wiley and John Hilton III

http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/768/1414

• Breaking Higher Education’s Iron Triangle: Access, Cost, and Quality

John Daniel, Asha Kanwar, and Stamenka Uvalic-Trumbic

http://www.changemag.org/Archives/Back%20Issues/March-April%202009/full-iron-triangle.html

• Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0

John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler

EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 43, no. 1 (January/February 2008): 16–32

• Short video intro to P2PU

http://blogs.p2pu.org/blog/2010/04/29/p2pu-the-speakeasy-of-open-education/

• If students have access to the early chapters of the following book, I would also recommend:

Disrupting Class

Clayton M Christensen, Michael B. Horn and Curtis W. Johnson

http://books.google.com/books?id=wiBcUl44FEcC&lpg=PP1&dq=disrupting%20class&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false

Posted on May 20, 2010