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anonymous

OER free workshop - 2 views

Looks like a great opportunity

started by Kathy Schwarz on 18 May 12 1 follow-up, last by anonymous on 23 May 12
Kathy Schwarz

Introducing the OERu - 3 views

http://www.tonybates.ca/2011/10/05/introducing-the-oeru-and-some-questions/ The OERu (the Open Educational Resources University) aims to provide a route to formal accreditation through study of fr...

Online education

started by Kathy Schwarz on 07 Oct 11 no follow-up yet
Tyler Wall

Largest supplier of free online learning? - 2 views

Wow that is cool, I too would like to hear from someone who has taken a course through them.

education

started by Kathy Schwarz on 01 May 12 1 follow-up, last by Tyler Wall on 01 May 12
anonymous

MOOCs, Large Courses Open to All, Topple Campus Walls - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...o-all-topple-campus-walls.html

mooc online learning

shared by anonymous on 05 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 05 Mar 12
     
    "Welcome to the brave new world of Massive Open Online Courses - known as MOOCs - a tool for democratizing higher education. While the vast potential of free online courses has excited theoretical interest for decades, in the past few months hundreds of thousands of motivated students around the world who lack access to elite universities have been embracing them as a path toward sophisticated skills and high-paying jobs, without paying tuition or collecting a college degree. And in what some see as a threat to traditional institutions, several of these courses now come with an informal credential (though that, in most cases, will not be free). "
  • anonymous on 05 Mar 12
     
    Can you imagine 160,000 students registered in a course?
  • Kathy Schwarz on 06 Mar 12
     
    See also http://www.tonybates.ca/2012/03/06/discussion-of-moocs-more-links-and-questions/ for more info on MOOCs. This link notes the completion rates for some courses.
anonymous

The Journal on Excellence in College Teaching - 0 views

celt.muohio.edu/...issue.php

shared by anonymous on 15 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 15 Aug 11
     
    Some free articles related to excellend in College Teaching. These are free, but it costs to access the current and archived journals.
anonymous

Browse Our Free and Open Textbooks | Flat World Knowledge - 0 views

catalog.flatworldknowledge.com/...disciplines

etexts

shared by anonymous on 26 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 26 Mar 12
     
    free - open access textbooks in Business, Science, Math, Professional and Applied Sciences, and Humanities and Social Sciences
Tyler Wall

Free mobile learning ebook - 1 views

Did you download the ebook?

started by Kathy Schwarz on 26 Apr 12 1 follow-up, last by Tyler Wall on 27 Apr 12
anonymous

Open-Access Courses: How They Compare - The Digital Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Ed... - 0 views

chronicle.com/...131677

OER

shared by anonymous on 30 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 30 Apr 12
     
    "Open-Access Courses: How They Compare For millions of students worldwide, free, open courseware provides a window, if not a front-row seat, to top university classes. The formats are as varied as the people who tune in. Some consist mainly of lectures recorded on iTunes, while other courses seek to replicate a classroom experience by offering study groups, computer-graded tests, and weekly assignments. And while you might get a badge or certificate showing you mastered the material, you generally won't get direct interaction with the professor, who may have recorded the lectures a few years ago. Here is a look at five introductory economics classes: four through open courseware and one in a traditional classroom. "
Tyler Wall

Lectrio - A Simple Course Management System | Classroom tools - 0 views

lectrio.com

shared by Tyler Wall on 04 May 12 - No Cached
  • Tyler Wall on 04 May 12
     
    Free Pseudo LMS for course work. Might be worth looking into for curiosities sake
Connie Gross

The Noun Project - Building a Free Collection of Symbols by Edward Boatman - Kickstarter - 3 views

www.kickstarter.com/...ection-of-our-worlds-visual-sy

design project noun icons

shared by Connie Gross on 21 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Connie Gross on 21 Mar 12
     
    I heard a great interview with the founder of The Noun Project on CBC's The Spark. This project offers some excellent simple, clean icons for easy use. Food for thought!
Jeff Hamilton

RSSinclude - Embed RSS Feed in Website, RSS Feed Widget PHP - 0 views

www.rssinclude.com

rss

shared by Jeff Hamilton on 06 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Jeff Hamilton on 06 Jan 12
     
    The end product of this rss to javascript converter is the nicest I've seen. You have to register for a free account. You pay money and you get extra features.
  • Jeff Hamilton on 07 Jan 12
     
    Christie found a better way. Diigo has their own, highly customizable, tool called link roll or something like that. It updates instantly and looks clean on the page.
Christie Robertson

Open Textbooks: learning from our WA neighbours | Opening Education - 0 views

open.bccampus.ca/...earning-from-our-wa-neighbours

textbooks learning education

shared by Christie Robertson on 24 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Christie Robertson on 24 Oct 13
     
    BCampus is moving forward with open textbooks. This means FREE textbook for students!!!
Jackie Doherty

McElvaney - 1 views

www.cjlt.ca/...257

shared by Jackie Doherty on 28 May 11 - Cached
  • Free and easy-to-use technologies offer new ways to find, organize, create, and interact with information.
  • The 2009 Horizon Report defines personal webs as "customized, personal web-based environments . . . that explicitly support one's social, professional, [and] learning . . . activities via highly personalized windows to the networked world" (Johnson, Levine & Smith, 2009, p. 19), and heralds them as an emerging learning trend.
  • This paper explores personal web technologies (PWTs) and their learning applications. Examples are given of commonly used, customizable technologies such as: social bookmarking, personal publishing tools, aggregators, and metagators.
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  • learning needs extend far beyond the culmination of a training session or degree program. Working adults must continually update their skills and behaviours to conform to the constantly changing demands of the workplace (Lewis & Romiszowski, 1996)
  • some needs may best be addressed by the individual him/herself.
  • PLE) to manage their own learning resources; whether these are wikis, news feeds, podcasts, or people.
  • The use of PWTs for learning directly supports several principles of connectivism, a learning theory outlined by Siemens (2006): (i) Knowledge rests in networks, (ii) Knowledge may reside in non-human appliances, and learning is enabled / facilitated by technology, and (iii) Currency (accurate, up-to-date knowledge) is the intent of all connectivist learning activities (p. 31).
  • If individuals can sufficiently develop their ability to find, organize, and manage these connections, their available knowledge does not have to be limited by the confines of their own skulls.
  • To navigate the Internet more efficiently, individuals can assemble a virtual toolbox from an ever-growing list of free, and often open-source, technologies to aid in aggregating, organizing, and publishing information online.
  • To create a personal web for learning, it is first necessary to explore what personal web technologies are, where to find them, and how to use them.
  • Social bookmarking and research tools allow users to save web pages, articles, and other media (usually to an online storage location) and organize them in personally meaningful ways.
  • n general, the length and full-featured capabilities of blogging offer learners the opportunity to explore topics in depth and reflect, while the speed and simplicity of micro-blogging lends itself more towards posing questions and collaborative brainstorming (King, 2009).
  • esides enriching and enlivening a post, these tools make it possible for an individual to publish artifacts that are ill-served by text-only displays.
  • Micro-blogs, such as Twitter (twitter.com), allow users to post short messages from their computer or mobile phone.
  • Users can also 'follow' other members to receive a stream of their posts.
  • asily "ask and answer questions, learn from experts, share resources, and react to events on the fly"
  • ndividuals who follow multiple blogs and/or regularly visit news or media sites may find juggling the disparate streams of information overwhelming. For this reason, it can be helpful to subscribe to these streams (or “feeds”) by using an aggregator.
  • Metagators, also called portals or start pages, can aggregate feeds, social networks, and widgets to create a central, personalized location for an individual's Internet usage
  • Netvibes and iGoogle
  • Widgets are small, adaptable, programmable, web-based gadgets that can be embedded into a variety of sites or used on mobile phones or desktops (
  • Due to the fact that they are user-created, there is no exact definition of a PLE (PLE, n.d.). In general, a PLE is the sum of websites and technologies that an individual makes use of to learn.
  • PLEs may range in complexity from a single blog to an inter-connected web of social bookmarking tools, personal publishing platforms, search engines, social networks, aggregators, etc.
  • http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wiki/index.php?title=Ple
  • Once an individual creates a PLE or PLN, there is no need to sit in front of a computer to access it. The majority of PWTs have mobile-friendly versions available, allowing individuals to take their learning to go.
  • Instead of limiting learning to traditional environments, mobile versions of PWTs give learners more options on where and when to learn.
  • However, there is a catch: PWTs may clash with traditional, linear, teacher-centered instruction (see Figure 2)
  • Learners who use PWTs must learn to question sources, verify information, compare and contrast various perspectives and become more independent
  • need to focus on building critical media and information literacy skills, so that students can effectively navigate the online maze and avoid being fooled by false or misleading information.
  • students have already experimented with a personal web technology, such as social networking, but, "few of them are being taught how to leverage its potential and benefit from the deep learning that can ensue"
  • In higher education, PWTs could be of great use for researching, developing PLNs, and creating online portfolios.
  • An undergraduate student who uses a research tool such as Zotero will graduate with a searchable, organized collection of annotated resources that could be valuable in the workplace or in future academic undertakings.
  • As the individual becomes increasingly connected to their PLN, they may become increasingly disconnected to those who are physically around them, such as family and friends
  • Using PWTs to incessantly check for new articles, status updates, and activity may become a drain on one’s attention and productivity
  • Valuable or innovative ideas put forth by lesser-known individuals can easily become lost in the noise.
  • ndividuals who wish to learn from their personal network must strive to create a diverse PLN populated with voices that may dissent, challenge, or provoke. Otherwise, the PLN cannot foster critical and creative thinking,
  • anything they publish on the Internet may be found by supervisors, peers, teachers, a
  • uture hiring managers (Harris, 2007)
anonymous

Reinventing the College Textbook -- Campus Technology - 0 views

campustechnology.com/...ting-the-college-textbook.aspx

shared by anonymous on 22 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 22 Jun 11
     
    "Determined to make introductory college science courses more manageable for students, two professors at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC, are developing a digital textbook based on the free, open-source learning management system Moodle. "
Christie Robertson

Open Education Sites Offer Free Content for All | MindShift - 1 views

mindshift.kqed.org/...tes-offer-free-content-for-all

education OER resources

shared by Christie Robertson on 27 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Christie Robertson on 27 Oct 11
     
    Open education sites exemplify how technology is democratizing education. These sites allow both learners and teachers to create their own curriculum, whether it's used in or out of the classroom.
Kathy Schwarz

Swivl: Complete personal cameraman - 1 views

Swivl brings hands free video control for iPhone, iPod Touch, GoPro and most pocket cameras. http://www.swivl.com/

started by Kathy Schwarz on 20 Apr 12 no follow-up yet
Kathy Schwarz

MOBI MOOC - 0 views

MobiMOOC2012 will only have 4 fixed topics: mLearning introduction, mLearning project planning, mLearning in global contexts and mLearning curriculum implementation, the 6 other subjects will be ch...

started by Kathy Schwarz on 19 Apr 12 no follow-up yet
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