2. Open Educational Resources: Online Learning, OpenCourseWare, and Workforce Development Steven Weiland Michigan State University

3. Education and Work in the Digital Age ● From the “Knowledge Society” to “Ubiquitous Learning”. ● The State We’re In. ● The Priority of Formal Education.

4. How Much Learning is Enough?: From School to Work and Back ● “The College Payoff”. ● The Debate About Degrees. ● Work and Education in the Middle.

5. Why Open Educational Resources and OpenCoureWare? ● The Success Story of Online Learning. ● The Two Worlds of Open Educational Resources.

6. Finding OpenCourseWare ● MOOCS (Massive Open Online Courses) and More. ● Experience, Courses, and Credit. ● What OER and OCW Can and Can’t Do.

7. Self-directed Learning with OpenCourseWare ● Responsibility, Readiness, and Drive. ● Skills, Self-improvement, and Well-being. ● Networked Self-direction.

8. What’s Ahead for OpenCourseWare? ● Global Initiatives and Local Opportunities. ● From Declarations to Degrees: Co-learning Projects. 1. An Online OCW Portal. 2. Promoting Readiness and Self-directed Learning. 3. Institutional Commitments to OCW and Prior Learning Assessment (PLA). 4. Online Degree Development. ● How Far Must Change Go?

9. New Resources Anthony Carnevale, Tamar Jayasundera, and Ban Cheah. (2012). The College Advantage: Weathering the Economic Storm. Washington, D.C: Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. Mike Rose. (2012). Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education. New York: New Press.