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Shows how to avoid bots harvesting email addresses in an open courseware project by encrypting them with CryptX

How-to for faculty to develop their own open courseware strategy, including benefits (global, institutional, personal/professional).

$3 per month allows anyone to get a site for educational use (no ads) - can get score data and user attempt data as well as keeping quizzes public - If free version, no user stats but quizzes are never deleted and you can continue to have unlimited quiz takers

I can't tell if this version uses Flash or any other programming that might interfere with accessibility... can you find the info on this aspect?

Free quiz generator for any not-for-profit use; Flash-based; 3 different quizzes (a) for whiteboard/projector use, (b) mini quiz with reading text, e.g., mini-webquest, (c) mini-quiz to be added to an existing page

Should I use this generator to build the copyright crash course? It's Flash-based so won't work on iPad/Touch/Phone, right?

Cartoon videos (in Flash) with transcripts - and students log in to take quizzes

This is a quiz for University of Kentucky students to better understand how copyright works, their rights and responsibilities as scholars and the integrity of the historical record.

Links to free course collections (e.g., Annenberg Media) in the following disciplines: English, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Health Education, Physical Education, Computers

One of my earliest efforts at offering an open education resource - posted long before UK was offering electronic dissertations.

Great blog by Cable Green - working for statewide CTC system in Washington

Patrick R. Lowenthal and David Thomas take a strong stance in decrying the use of student-teacher electronic dropboxes for submission of student work. We all know that in the performance arts, students benefit from public critique - and as scholars we insist on this practice for ourselves, making sure we present "papers" at prestigious conferences. So, why expect our students to perform in the "real world" and be subject regularly to critique by the very public that should be supporting the funding of their education?

Great article (published online 2010) with easy access to various components of each method: description, indications when to use it, contra-indications, special precautions, notes

Largest source for etextbooks; best way for materials to be accessible for ADA

archive from ELI2011 conference

A Report by the Digital Connections Council of the Committee for Economic Development, Washington DC - 2009 - includes definition of OER, issues re copyright, trends

TodaysMeet - a free online tool to allow for real time online conversations in a closed room with no ads - even good for primary grades. This review also shows examples with pix

BadgeKit to create, design, assess and issue badges that easily move to the Mozilla Backpack - must download the code from GitHub and implement it on our own server