Virtual tour opendoorsgroup_mentor_cloud

Open Doors Group

“…Open Education

Through Collaboration”

Put on your

Travel Clothes and join us

for a

Virtual Tour of the

Open Doors Group /

College Open Textbooks

MentorCloud Platform

For

Sharing Best Practices

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Open Doors Group

“…Open Education

Through Collaboration”Where we have been:

Open Doors Group

“…Open Education

Through Collaboration”

We have been busy…

BY THE NUMBERS

Over 1,000 COT Ning members

Over 25+ educational webinars

Over 25+ conferences attended and/or represented COT on panels.

Over 1,000 Tweet books sent to education community

$3M in funding from many contributors and eleven (11) organizations.

WOW award Recognition from WCET for “Outstanding Use of Technology in Higher Education”.

Open Doors Group

“…Open Education

Through Collaboration”

Where we are headed: Strategic Partnerships

We have a number of projects focusing on accomplishing our

mission, and want to point out two key strategic partnerships:

AcademicPub: We’re working with AcademicPub to take selected

open textbooks and place them as content available to faculty using

their service.

MentorCloud: We’re working with MentorCloud to create an

environment where open education experts can share best

practices 1x1 or within groups.

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Open Doors Group

“…Open Education

Through Collaboration”

Where we are headed: Strategic Partnerships

The Open Doors Group has partnered with MentorCloud to

create a private open education community that allows 24x7

discussion threads and broadcast email messages to all

members by all members. Generally all members will be both

mentors and mentees in keeping with 21st century models of

learning communities.

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Open Doors Group

“…Open Education

Through Collaboration”

OpenDoorsGroup.

MentorCloud.com

The first step is to request an

invitation to join the

OpenDoorsGroup

MentorCloud

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Write to us with 2 sentences about your interest in education:

Mitchell Levy, Mitchell.Levy@opendoorsgroup.org

Jacky Hood, jacky.hood@opendoorsgroups.org

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Open Doors Group

“…Open Education

Through Collaboration”

OpenDoorsGroup.

MentorCloud.com

Next task is to

activate account

and complete

your profile.

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Open Doors Group

“…Open Education

Through Collaboration”

OpenDoorsGroup.

MentorCloud.com

Choose mentors,

mentees or peers

to interact with.

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Open Doors Group

“…Open Education

Through Collaboration”

OpenDoorsGroup.

MentorCloud.com

You can also view

and share videos,

and share best

practices in relevant

groups.

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Open Doors Group

“…Open Education

Through Collaboration”

We Encourage

You to Join!

We rolled out opendoorsgroup.mentorcloud.com on “Thank

Your Mentor Day” January 26, 2012.

We are delighted to provide this Virtual Tour for Open Education

Week March 5-9, 2012.

Join us on the journey to Open Education --- seek and provide

mentoring, learn and share, and have fun as well!

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Open Doors Group

“…Open Education

Through Collaboration” Business Model

OpenDoorsGroup.MentorCloud.com will be free during the beta

period to all individuals who are contributors to open education.

• There may be a fee to organizations that sign up 5 or more individuals,

as well as, to organizations looking to tap into the open education

community.

• There will be a charge for organizations that are looking for facilitators to

drive conversations on certain topics and areas.

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Open Doors Group

“…Open Education

Through Collaboration” Contact us

For more info, or interest in sponsoring this initiative,

please contact one of the Co-Directors of Open

Doors Group/College Open Textbooks.

Mitchell Levy, Mitchell.Levy@opendoorsgroup.org,

408-257-3000

Jacky Hood, jacky.hood@opendoorsgroups.org,

650-323-6509

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THANK YOU