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Discovering "Community" Media in Archive.org
Archive.org, or the Internet Archive, has functioned as a digital library of all media types on the Internet since 1996. Available material has been free to the public, with some exceptions, since its start and it has served as a library for Open Educational Resources way before the term "OER" ever existed. The archive also existed before Creative Commons but began to gain in popularity as the Creative Commons licenses were first released in 2002. Because of the interest in using OERs and the stipulations of a Creative Commons license, the Archive has organized its content by containing Creative Commons licensed material all in one place."
"The promising syllabus," Bain wrote to me via e-mail, "fundamentally recognizes that people will learn best and most deeply when they have a strong sense of control over their own education rather than feeling manipulated by someone else's demands."
irst, it offers an explanation of the course's promise to the students -- what will they have gained, in terms of knowledge or skills, by the end of the semester?
Second, it describes the activities in which the students will engage in order to help them fulfill that promise: the readings, the class activities, the assignments.
conversation about how the teacher and the student would best come to understand the nature and progress of the student's learning."
conversation that should last throughout the term that will help students understand what it means to become an 'A' thinker in a particular course or discipline, and what constitutes evidence that the student has achieved that kind of thinking."
this course can only touch the rapidly swirling surface of online teaching and learning. Each of us must then decide where and how we will more fully develop our knowledge and skills. For me, developing as an online learner / teacher feels like a balancing act between keeping an eye on the ever-changing surface while also finding a few places to dive deeper and more fully explore the complexities and possibilities