Introducing a virtual space for sharing open education best practices, mentoring and being mentored and enhancing instructor-less open courseware with a human guide.

1. 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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2. Open Doors Group
“…Open Education
Through Collaboration”
Where we have been:

3. 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”.

4. 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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5. 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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6. Open Doors Group
OpenDoorsGroup.
“…Open Education
Through Collaboration” 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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7. Open Doors Group
OpenDoorsGroup.
“…Open Education
Through Collaboration” MentorCloud.com
Next task is to
activate account
and complete
your profile.
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8. Open Doors Group
OpenDoorsGroup.
“…Open Education
Through Collaboration” MentorCloud.com
Choose mentors,
mentees or peers
to interact with.
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9. Open Doors Group
OpenDoorsGroup.
“…Open Education
Through Collaboration” MentorCloud.com
You can also view
and share videos,
and share best
practices in relevant
groups.
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10. Open Doors Group
We Encourage
“…Open Education
Through Collaboration” 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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11. 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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12. 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
THANK YOU
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