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Sunday, November 30, 2008 |
This varied listing of collection sites from the Online Education Database includes everything from Archives, to Broadcast Learning, to Directories, to EBooks, to Encyclopedias, to Open Courseware Collections at selected universities. The range of available resources for learning is impressive. Readers will surely find several sites of worth exploring and bookmarking. ____JH (Thanks to dgCommunities Elearning for this reference.)
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If you're interested in specific open courses, you can find a variety on the
Web (or through this list of
100
courses). Usually, those single courses will contain all the materials you
need to learn one subject for free. But, if you're after more than a single
focus or if you need a deeper perspective on a subject, this list of open
courseware collections may be just what you need. Each resource listed below
contains a collection or collections of educational materials. You'll find
digital archives, a variety of courses, Podcasts, videos and sometimes a mix
of everything you can imagine so you can learn any given subject in depth."
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Thursday, October 30, 2008 |
P2P University has received favorable coverage by a number of bloggers (including ZaidLearn and Stephen's Web). I just want to add my endorsement of this promising direction of development. ___JH
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"The Peer 2 Peer University is an online community of open study groups for short university-level courses.
Think of it as online book clubs for open educational resources. The
P2PU helps you navigate the wealth of open education materials that are
out there, creates small groups of motivated learners, and supports the
design and facilitation of courses. Students and tutors get recognition
for their work, and we are building pathways to formal credit as well.Find out more about what P2PU courses look like, and consider creating your own. If you just want to stay informed, please add your name to our mailing list, and we will send you a message when we launch."
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Sunday, October 26, 2008 |
Tony Bates' listing of OER sites adds yet another useful selection to an ever-growing collection of annotated listings. ____JH
"Whatever happened to learning objects? Well, they've been replaced (or rather swallowed up) by open educational resources. Increasingly, more and more institutions are making online educational resources and course materials available free of charge for educational or non-profit purposes. So will content be free in education in the future? I think this deserves a blog entry to itself! (to come). In the meantime, I list here web sites that provide access to free material."
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Sunday, October 05, 2008 |
Opening Up Education is an MIT Press book edited by Toru Iiyoshi and Vijay Kumar; the subtitle is "The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge." The free ebook is, appropriately, available in an open access ipaper edition (Flash format) or via pdf files. (A print version may also be purchased from MIT Press.) The book includes a useful Foreword by John Seely Brown and valuable Introduction and Conclusion sections by the editors; the core of the book contains 27 chapters by diverse authors, many of them leaders in their fields.
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"Given the abundance of open education
initiatives that aim to make educational assets freely available
online, the time seems ripe to explore the potential of open education
to transform the economics and ecology of education. Despite the
diversity of tools and resources already available—from well-packaged
course materials to simple games, for students, self-learners, faculty,
and educational institutions—we have yet to take full advantage of
shared knowledge about how these are being used, what local innovations
are emerging, and how to learn from and build on the experiences of
others. Opening Up Education argues that we must develop not
only the technical capability but also the intellectual capacity for
transforming tacit pedagogical knowledge into commonly usable and
visible knowledge: by providing incentives for faculty to use (and
contribute to) open education goods, and by looking beyond
institutional boundaries to connect a variety of settings and open
source entrepreneurs."
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Sunday, September 28, 2008 |
This is another useful compilation of e-learning resources, well-organized and thoughtfully selected. ____JH (Thanks to OL Daily for the citation.)
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"On this site you will find
my favourite links to free on-line services that allow you to provide
your students with enhanced learning opportunities which you can then
embed into, or link from, your school/college/university's website,
course blog or VLE/MLE.
For a site/service to be included here it must be:
- Free
- Easy to use
- Produce high quality resources that can be used on any web enabled platform
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& services are arranged into the categories that you can see in the
navigation menu the on the left, please click on one to get started.
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Monday, September 22, 2008 |
Stanford is making core courses in computer programming and engineering available for free to non-registered students. This offering is a fine opportunity for self-guided students and for students and instructors in other institutions to share Stanford's intellectual resources. ___JH (Thanks to Free Culture News for this reference.)
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"For the first time in its history, Stanford is offering some of its
most popular engineering classes free of charge to students and
educators around the world. Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE)
expands the Stanford experience to students and educators online. A
computer and an Internet connection is all you need. View lecture
videos, access reading lists and other course handouts, take quizzes
and tests, and communicate with other SEE students, all at your
convenience. This fall, SEE launches its programming by
offering one of Stanford's most popular sequences: the three-course
Introduction to Computer Science taken by the majority of Stanford's
undergraduates and seven more advanced courses in artificial
intelligence and electrical engineering."
Example:
Introduction to Computer Science | Programming Methodology
Instructor: Sahami, Mehran
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course is the largest of the introductory programming courses and is
one of the largest courses at Stanford. Topics focus on the
introduction to the engineering of computer applications emphasizing
modern software engineering principles: object-oriented design,
decomposition, encapsulation, abstraction, and testing.
Programming Methodology teaches the widely-used Java programming
language along with good software engineering principles. Emphasis is
on good programming style and the built-in facilities of the Java
language. The course is explicitly designed to appeal to humanists and
social scientists as well as hard-core techies. In fact, most
Programming Methodology graduates end up majoring outside of the School
of Engineering.
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Thursday, September 11, 2008 |
Teachers' Domain is a one-stop site for collected media resources from public television. Registration is required, but is free. The site is divided into Teachers' Domain for K-12 resources and Teachers' Domain College Edition for higher education resources. The materials in Teachers' Domain can be searched by keywords or browsed under broad subject areas. To switch from the K-12 to the College Edition click on the "Change Editions" link at the bottom the the search page. ___JH
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"Teachers' Domain is an online library of more than 1,000 free media
resources from the best in public television. These classroom
resources, featuring media from NOVA, Frontline, Design Squad, American
Experience, and other public broadcasting and content partners are easy
to use and correlate to state and national standards. Teachers'
Domain resources include video and audio segments, Flash interactives,
images, documents, lesson plans for teachers, and student-oriented
activities. Once you register, you can personalize the site using 'My
Folders' and 'My Groups' to save your favorite resources into a folder
and share them with your colleagues or students. Teachers'
Domain strives to strengthen teacher knowledge by providing innovative
teaching methods that incorporate technology in the classroom and
inspire students to learn."
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008 |
The OER Handbook is an excellent resource and will undoubtedly continue to be revised and updated beyond this version one. Coverage includes everything from Finding and Adapting resources to Composing, Sharing, and Licensing resources. ____JH
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"Welcome to the world of Open Educational Resources (OER). This
handbook is designed to help educators find, use, develop and share OER
to enhance their effectiveness online and in the classroom. Although no prior knowledge of OER[1]
is required, some experience using a computer and browsing the Internet
will be helpful. For example, it is preferable that you have experience
using a word processor (e.g. Open Office[2] or Microsoft Word) and basic media production software, such as an image editor (e.g. Gimp[3], Inkscape[4] or Photoshop).
The handbook works best when there is some sort of OER you would
like to create or make available to others, but it is also useful for
the curious reader."
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008 |
I first read about Many Eyes in the business section of the Sunday 8/31/08 NY Times, where it was described by the Times writer Anne Eisenburg, "Lines and Bubbles and Bars, Oh My! New Ways to Sift Data." Eisenburg argues that Many Eyes does for users of data displays what YouTube
does for videos and Flickr for photos: "Now they can share more
technical types of displays: graphs, charts, and other visuals they
create to help them analyze data buried in spreadsheets, tables, or
text." Many Eyes was created by IBM scientists and developers to provide sophisticated visualization tools for data analyses and displays. The site should be of interest to students and to instructors, and to the general public. One of the most important contributions of the Web-- beyond quick communications and ready access to information, advice, and opinion-- is the access to sound, video, photo and other tools that were previously the province of specialists. (One caution--because Many Eyes is experimental the server is not always up, sometimes it is closed for development and updating.) ____JH
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About Many Eyes"Many Eyes is a bet
on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns. Our goal is
to 'democratize' visualization and to enable a new social kind of data
analysis. Jump right to our visualizations now, take a tour, or read on for a leisurely explanation of the project. All of us in CUE's Visual Communication Lab
are passionate about the potential of data visualization to spark
insight. It is that magical moment we live for: an unwieldy, unyielding
data set is transformed into an image on the screen, and suddenly the
user can perceive an unexpected pattern. As visualization designers we
have witnessed and experienced many of those wondrous sparks. But in
recent years, we have become acutely aware that the visualizations and
the sparks they generate, take on new value in a social setting.
Visualization is a catalyst for discussion and collective insight about
data. We all deal with data that we'd like to understand better.
It may be as straightforward as a sales spreadsheet or fantasy football
stats chart, or as vague as a cluttered email inbox. But a remarkable
amount of it has social meaning beyond ourselves. When we share it and
discuss it, we understand it in new ways."
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008 |
This site provides a free course management system for students and teachers. The courses can be made private or public. LectureShare is very accessible with easy registration steps and easy-to-use course features which include a Gradebook, Announcements, and Lecture Uploading. Use the Available Courses section to search or browse the courses. Consult the recent review of LectureShare in THE Journal. ____JH
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"LectureShare lets instructors post lecture notes to their students, or the world, quickly and easily.
Simply create an account, create your course, and in only minutes you can be posting announcements, documents,
and media that your students can easily access. There's no frustrating software to learn and no course web
page to maintain. We feel instructors time is best spent with students, not struggling with problematic course
management software or maintaining their own webpage. We hope to bring a new level of simplicity and flexibility to the course management idea. We currently allow students
to aggregate multiple courses under one account and take advantage of course notifications by e-mail, SMS text message,
or RSS feed. This is only the beginning and we hope to develop many more features."
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Thursday, August 21, 2008 |
It's important when the free digital textbooks and free online course materials are covered by the LA Times. The issues surrounding pricey textbooks and digital alternatives are compactly discussed in this news article. ___ JH (Thanks to the blog Free Culture News for this reference.)
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"Caltech economics professor R. Preston McAfee finds it annoying that
students and faculty haven't looked harder for alternatives to the
exorbitant prices. McAfee wrote a well-regarded open-source economics
textbook and gave it away -- online. But although the text, released in
2007, has been adopted at several prestigious colleges, including
Harvard and Claremont-McKenna, it has yet to make a dent in the wider
textbook market."
"McAfee is one of a band of would-be reformers who are trying to beat
the high cost -- and, they say, the dumbing down -- of college
textbooks by writing or promoting open-source, no-cost digital texts. Thus far, their quest has been largely quixotic, but that could be
changing. Public colleges and universities in California this past year
backed several initiatives to promote online course materials, and
publishers and entrepreneurs are stepping up release of electronic
textbooks, which typically sell at reduced prices."
"Open educational resources is an amorphous category for publishers, but
basically it includes e-textbooks, courses, videos, taped lectures,
tests, software and other materials released online free to the public
without restriction on use."
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Friday, August 08, 2008 |
This informative and provocative video contains a Library of Congress presentation by Dr. Michael Wesch, a cultural anthropologist at Kansas State University, who explores the digital ethnography of YouTube. Wesch and his students conduct their research using "participant observation" on YouTube. Wesch makes very effective use of XML, screen captures, music, pictures, re-mixing, and video presentation techniques to convey his analyses of the cultural significance of Web 2.0 media trends. Wesch's work is a fine example of using a medium to explain a
medium--something like Marshall McCluhan using Television to explain
the impact of TV on society. See Wesch's other videos, "The Machine is Us/ing Us" and "Information R/evolution," and consult Mediated Cultures for updates about the Digital Ethnography Working Group's studies. ____JH (Thanks to iThinkEd and openculture for citations of Wesch's work.)
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"Web 2.0 is about linking people in ways that we've never been linked before."
"Media mediate human relationships; when media change, human relations change."
"YouTube exhibits a seriously playful participatory media culture."
"Networked individualism."
"The Web is us."
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 |
Zaid Ali Alsagoff has organized and edited 69 postings from his weblog Zaidlearn at the ePublishing site Scribd. Zaid's eBook provides many links and many valuable perspectives on the worlds of learning that are available on the Web. ____JH
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After a lot of filtering, I have settled for 69 learning nuggets
posted on ZaidLearn, which I believe readers might find useful to their
own learning. To make it a bit more convenient to find what you are
looking for, I have divided the book into six learning galaxies (or
themes), which are:
- Learning
- Teaching
- Stories
- Free e-Learning Tools
- Free Learning Content
- Free EduGames
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Monday, August 04, 2008 |
Another informative collection of categorized and annotated resource links for self-directed learning--this listing was compiled by Gartheeban Ganeshapillai. I especially like the inclusive scope of this listing. ___JH
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"While you can't get college credit for taking open courseware classes,
you can make the most of the information and education they offer both
in personal and professional aspects of your life. After all, even if
you're not working towards a degree, taking the same courses as those
in the ivy league can't possibly hurt you and may even be able to
better keep you informed and on the cutting edge of what's going on in
your field. So how can you make the most of these free online courses?
Here are resources we've collected that can help you search for
classes, find information and learn everything you need to know about
how open courseware works."
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Friday, August 01, 2008 |
This article in the Online Newsletter of the Association for Learning Technology reports on the initiative to establish a new concentration of science and scholarship focused on how the Web functions and how to improve Web operations. ___JH (Thanks to TL Infobits for this reference.)
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"To promote Web Science and explore its emerging agenda, a joint endeavour
between the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the School of Electronics and
Computer Science at the University of Southampton, was set up in 2006, called
the Web Science Research Initiative (webscience.org).
WSRI’s mission is to foster the fundamental advances required for the Web’s
continued growth. In particular, WSRI is focusing on steering the development of
the Web Science discipline, running a series of workshops and looking at the
lines of an academic curriculum for teaching Web Science. There will be an
International Web Science Conference held in Athens, Greece, in 2009 – hopefully
the first of many – as well as a new journal Foundations and Trends in Web
Science."
"Web Science is not just modelling the current Web. It is about engineering new
infrastructure protocols by using scientific and technological tools from many
disciplines to understand the human society that uses them, to create beneficial
new systems – which may involve extremely radical thinking about both technology
and society (Shneiderman 2007). Such new engineering must respect the invariants
of the Web experience: decentralisation to avoid bottlenecks and allow increases
of scale; serendipitous reuse of information; fairness, openness and trust. In
this way, the Web will remain a technology that enhances human society, and
supports human aspiration."
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Thursday, July 24, 2008 |
Both students and instructors use the online collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia and both are likely to make use of Knol. The new Google site offers short articles on a very wide range of subjects from Backpacking to Malaria to Barbecue Sauces. Net watchers will be looking closely to see if Knol grows at the same pace and to the same scope as Wikipedia. ____JH
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The Knol site has one goal: to help you share what you know. "The
Knol project is a site that hosts many knols — units of knowledge —
written about various subjects. The authors of the knols can take
credit for their writing, provide credentials, and elicit peer reviews
and comments. Users can provide feedback, comments, related
information. So the Knol project is a platform for sharing information,
with multiple cues that help you evaluate the quality and veracity of
information.
Knols are indexed by the big search engines, of
course. And well-written knols become popular the same as regular web
pages. The Knol site allows anyone to write and manage knols through a
browser on any computer."
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Thursday, July 10, 2008 |
Grainne Conole of OpenLearn presents a view of how Web 2.0 technologies can influence pedagogical approaches. The models and ideas in Conole's presentation are worth considering by learning design professionals whose task is to facilitate the construction of online courses. (The video from the Eduserve Foundation Symposium 2008 was cited by iThinkEd.)____JH
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 |
David Wiley announces the startup of Open Education News. This is another site to add to your list of rss feeds to monitor happenings in the field of open education. ___JH
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"The young field of open education is gaining momentum
and energy. As additional projects, foundations, universities, and
other participants join the movement, the need increases for a single
source to gather, sort, analyze, synthesize, and disseminate news
related to open education. As a field, open education is now where the
field of open access was a few years ago. Peter Suber's wonderful Open Access News provides an invaluable service to the OA community, and we intend to replicate this service with Open Education News." "Open
Education News is essentially a group blog. A number of individuals
from the US, South Africa, and eventually other locations daily monitor
the internet for news related to open education. We then aggregate
these items and publish them individually with minor commentary.
Occasionally we'll publish bigger pieces of our own authorship;
analyses and such. If you know of some open education news we should
write about, contact David Wiley at david.wiley@gmail.com." "Open Education News is graciously supported by the Open Society Institute and the Shuttleworth Foundation."
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Sunday, June 29, 2008 |
This video series from Annenberg Media/Learning.org sets a high standard for online resources. The flash media presentations are exceptionally well produced to include clips from historical records and commentary by historians. Maps, a webography, and transcripts are also included with each module. Registration is required to access the free resources. Viewers who visit A Biography of America will also want to examine other programs available from Annenberg. ____JH
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"Annenberg Media is a unit of The Annenberg Foundation. Our mission
is to advance excellent teaching in all disciplines throughout American
K-12 schools. Former names of Annenberg Media are: Annenberg/CPB, The
Annenberg/CPB Project, and The Annenberg/CPB Math and Science Project.
We pursue this mission by funding and broadly distributing multimedia
resources for teachers to help them improve their own teaching practice
and understanding of their subject. Annenberg Media makes use of
telecommunications technologies—the Internet, including broadband video
streaming, and satellite television broadcast—as well as hard copy
media to disseminate these multimedia resources, ensuring that they
reach as many teachers as possible."
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Robin Good writes enthusiastically about the benefits of web-based mind-mapping, with a special focus on MindMeister (which is free in its basic version). Robin also includes links to other mind-mapping tools. The mind maps that I create are most often done with a pencil and a yellow pad, but there are advantages in using a shareable, web-based tool such as MindMeister. From a very, very broad perspective all online educational resources can be viewed as variations of a mind or topic map. _____JH
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"Web-Based Mind-Mapping: Outline, Plan and Brainstorm Ideas Together With MindMeister. If you are looking to find an effective way to collaborate, brainstorm, visualize and plan ideas collaboratively online, much beyond what voice and text chat can do, it is the time you give a good try to the mind-mapping experience.
Thanks to unforgettable MasterNewMedia editor Antonella Pastore, who first covered mindmaps in 2004 (!), mindmaps have been on my radar for quite some time, but with the recent advent of online, collaboratively editable mindmaps the opportunities to reap significant benefit from these tools has just exploded.
The great thing about collaborative, web-based mind-maps is the ease with which you can visualize spatially while giving very precise text labels to ideas, tasks, projects and to the relationships between them. These two characteristics by themselves when mixed with ability to watch and edit in real-time the same visual map with others creates a truly effective, useful and memorable way of collaborating productively at a distance."
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 |
This excellent online course is available for free from CAREO (a Wiki version of the course is also provided for readers who might like to contribute to the presentation). The course was developed by the Resource Pool Project. The topics covered should be of especial value to developers of educational resources and resource repositories.
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Course Overview
This short
course is intended to provide a basic overview of structured course
development, learning objects, and e-learning standards and
specifications. This course is meant to be non-technical in nature,
although it is hard to make it so.
Course Goal
A
Short Course on Structured Course Development, Learning Objects, and
E-Learning standards will provide an introduction to using a structured
language such as Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) or
eXtensible Markup Language (XML) as a basis for producing a learning
design and describing course content, activities, and assignments. The
course will tell you what SGML and XML are and distinguish them from
HyperText Markup Language. You will understand the concept of learning
objects and the issues related to their use in e-learning, and you will
learn about the standards and specifications initiatives that are
shaping the e-learning world. Key Concepts
- Semantic markup languages
- Instructional design using a structured approach
- Characteristics of learning objects
- Learning objects and metadata
- The difference between a standard and a specification
- Why standards and specifications are important
- E-learning standards and specifications initiatives
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Sunday, June 08, 2008 |
This Wiki page will be of continuing value to researchers at many levels--students, instructors, and librarians. The purpose of the site is to provide short evaluative descriptions of useful software. The software is listed in categories (from Authoring to Mapping to Utilities for easy browsing. The resources are also searchable. ____JH (Via Jane Park's post in Creative Commons.)
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"As digital information proliferates, researchers need tools to find,
organize, manipulate, analyze, and share it. But how do you keep up
with the hundreds of tools that can help you to be more efficient and
innovative and find the ones best for you? Digital Research Tools
(DiRT) brings together snapshot reviews of software that can help
researchers--professors, students, think-tankers, teachers, librarians,
corporate intelligence gatherers, and other inquisitive folks--do their
work better. We do our best to keep our reviews clear and
straightforward rather than full of jargon. We also group tools into
categories so that researchers can identify relevant ones more easily.
We cover a range of software, including tools to help you manage and
share your bookmarks, create bibliographies, analyze and visualize
texts, brainstorm, collaborate, collect data, etc. Although we
generally prefer tools that are free (open source is even better), we
also cover software that comes with a price tag (if seems to be worth
the money)."
"The Digital Research Tools team
currently includes academic librarians with expertise in the
humanities, science, and business. We welcome new
contributors--contact Lisa Spiro at lspiro@rice.edu if you're interested."
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Sunday, June 01, 2008 |
I admire list makers who can meaningfully select and organize useful
information from among the clutter. Librarians are certainly among the
most helpful list makers so I regularly read a number of library blogs.
Keith Stanger, the "Library Guy" at Eastern Michigan University's Halle Library would
certainly be a helpful person for students and faculty members to consult when
they are looking for information. If you can't visit Keith in person,
visit his "Information Advocate" web site. The site is especially
strong in the subject areas of education and psychology, but other areas are covered as well. ____JH
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Thursday, May 29, 2008 |
I found this listing of rss workshops, tutorials, and information on the University of British Columbia Wiki. The information included in The Fuss really does convey what all the fuss is about when it comes to using rich site syndication feeds to keep up with postings from diverse sources across the Web. Next to using e-mail and search engines in browsers, the ability to acquire and organize rss feeds is a primary information literacy skill for students, instructors, and all others who visit the wonderful world of the Web. At the same site also consult Intro to RSS. (These pages at UBC are maintained by Brian Lamb.) ____JH
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IntroToRSS - a long scrolling page with pretensions of primer-hood.
- What's TheFuss with RSS? - a really long scrolling page of resources and tutorials about [our favorite three letter acronym].
- Intro
- Why the fuss?
- What is RSS?
- Viewing RSS Content
- Cookie Time
- Connecting Learning Objects via RSS
- Implementations
- Q&A
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 |
This chapter is called "Design with Learning in Mind" from Robin Smith's Guide to Online Course Design. The author successfully summarizes the key components in designing an online course and brings out the crucial differences between an online course and a classroom course. ____JH (Via Tomorrow's Professor.)
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--"The posting below looks at how to develop learner-centered environments
for online courses. It is from Chapter 1, Design with Learning in Mind,
in the book, Conquering The Content: A Step-by-Step Guide to Online
Course Design, by Robin M. Smith Published by Jossey-Bass, A Wiley
Imprint, 989 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94103-1741
[www.josseybass.com] Copyright © 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc."
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Sunday, May 25, 2008 |
CLARe currently contains resources related to language learning and study skills but plans are underway to expand the contents. Take a look to see what's available. ___JH
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"CLARe (Contextualised Learning Activity Repository) is a repository
for online learning and teaching materials. It contains complete
interactive, multimedia activities (learning objects) and individual resources, such as texts, video or audio recordings (assets).
Use our search facility to find the most appropriate resources, or browse to see the kind of material that CLARe contains."
"CLARe is running on GNU EPrints repository-creating software, which generates eprints repositories that are compliant with the Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting OAI 1.1 and 2.0. The GNU EPrints repository-creating software is available for free at http://software.eprints.org/."
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Friday, May 16, 2008 |
I've followed the Harvey Project for many years; they continue to improve and expand the resources that the site provides for the teaching of human physiology. Even if you've visited the Project before, it's worth a new look just to see what has been added. ___JH
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"An international collaboration of
educators, researchers, physicians, students, programmers,
instructional designers and graphic artists working together to build
interactive, dynamic human physiology course materials on the Web. Founded in
1998, the Harvey Project has over a hundred participants in nearly
twenty countries. It has received funding from the US National Science Foundation
. The Harvey Project has developed over forty learning objects, mostly
Java simulations and Flash(tm) animations. Check out some of our learning materials (RLAs) and please join us if you're interested in helping out."
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Sunday, May 11, 2008 |
This introduction to OERs is available at Connexions. It was prepared by Dr. Judy Baker of Foothill College to assist instructors in using open textbooks and other online educational resources. I highly recommend this tutorial for teachers new to OERs and as a review for professionals who are already familiar with using online educational resources. _____JH
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"A self-paced tutorial about open educational resources as alternatives to textbooks for college teachers. Visitors are invited to actively participate by posting Activity Reflection entries to the course Discussion area. This tutorial has 9 Lessons organized into 3 Units: Background, OER Sources, and OER Use."
Collection Contents
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Monday, May 05, 2008 |
The aims of the Open Access movement, the Open Software movement, and the Open Educational Resources movement overlap, with each movement influencing the others. This new Open Access Directory wiki should be a valuable asset for professionals in all three fields. ___JH(Thanks to Carolina Rossini for this reference.)
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"Welcome to the Open Access Directory (OAD), a compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large. By bringing many OA-related lists together in one place, OAD will make it easier for users, especially newcomers, to discover them and use them for reference. The easier they are to maintain and discover, the more effectively they can spread useful, accurate information about OA.
The goal is for the OA community itself to enlarge and correct the lists with little intervention from the editors or editorial board. For quality control, we limit editing privileges to registered users. We welcome your contributions to our lists, ideas for new lists, and comments to help us improve OAD."
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