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"When teaching their students how to write essays, educators have a great responsibility. Young learners are rarely interested in the process of writing, so the way you inspire them is of crucial importance. You cannot give plain instructions and tell your students to write an essay; you need to make the challenge more attractive and creative for them."

The goals of the course are (1) to give you a firm grounding in the current state of the field of open education, including related topics like copyright, licensing, and sustainability, (2) to help you locate open education in the context of mainstream instructional technologies like learning objects, and (3) to get you thinking, writing, and dialoguing creatively and critically about current practices and possible alternative practices in open education

Teleport around the globe with this excellent Google mashup (via @DanBowen) I can see this working as a lesson starter for creative writing or in geography (obviously). Probably lots of other ways to use it too. It's great fun.

It is good fun, but if I were to use it in a science lesson say, what kind of animals live in this habitat, I'd spend 15 mins teleporting until I found somewhere decent. You would have to be quite lucky to get somewhere which isn't some generic street with fly-tipping and doubleparking.

A collection of world maps where territories are re-sized according to the subject content. Creative Commons licensed.

I'm looking for sites that have math problems that require creativity from students, not just knowledge of the material, like the kinds of questions they use for math competitions. Two interesting answers with resources - worth checkng!

'Brainstorm unleashes your employees' untapped creativity. Give them the easy-to-use tools they need to move their ideas forward.'

From Mark Rounds: Web-Ed Tools Paper.li: "The art of online storytelling is all about presentation. As a non-linear storytelling engine, Projeqt gives creatives the ability to weave together stories dripping with style and personality from Flickr photos, RSS feeds, tweets, YouTube or Vimeo videos, and any media stored on their own computers.Users can craft "projeqts," whatever their purpose may be, by adding content in the form of slides. Create a slide, name it, add tags, and fill the slide with a photo, text, video or feed. Slides are published to create the web story and be can reordered via drag and drop. Users can also create a projeqt within a projeqt to serve as a story inside a story.In private beta right now... It took me a week to get my invite."

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Teachers need to work efficiently and collaborate creatively. Dropbox helps you do that.

USA offers competency-based education and scholarship opportunities for higher education that are immensely attractive for international students. This country has some of the best universities in the world, and its educational system offers more freedom for creative expression, experimenting in different fields of study and a great choice of extracurricular activities.