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danfeinberg

OSCELOT - 1 views

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opensource Blackboard building block

shared by danfeinberg on 07 Sep 11 - Cached
  • danfeinberg on 07 Sep 11
     
    OSCELOT is a community that creates innovative open source solutions for the challenges facing the eLearning community. We believe in openness in education, the application of OPEN standards, the power of OPEN source, OPEN community, OPEN content, and OPEN education.
alexandra m. pickett

State of Washington to Offer Online Materials, Instead of Textbooks, for 2-Year College... - 0 views

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textbooks elearning chronicle

shared by alexandra m. pickett on 27 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • If the course designers feel that the best instructional materials are online versions of traditional textbooks, that's fine. Or they can use a smorgasbord of teaching modules and exercises developed by other open-learning projects, such as those created by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Carnegie Mellon University. Interactive-learning Web sites and even instructional videos on YouTube are also perfectly acceptable resources.
  • Traditional textbook publishers, which now promote e-textbooks, aren't the solution, insisted David Lippman, who teaches math at Pierce College and is a self-confessed open-source purist. "I find the publishers' online offerings nothing more than the old ancillaries they've always offered bundled up in a proprietary system," he said.
  • Maybe we collectively need a Sociology 101 textbook (with all of the supplemental materials included). Ohio (or Washington or Texas or Florida) releases an RFP for the creation of a "Sociology 101" textbook. Maybe you win the bid ... maybe Pearson wins the bid. The difference is, the publisher does not own the copyright - the State of Ohio owns the copyright - and chooses to share that textbook with everyone with a CC BY license. Everyone can now use / modify the open textbook, Ohio has saved a bunch of money for its students, so did other states / countries, and the publisher still had an income stream.
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  • What is most important is that we collectively get to high quality, multi-format (digital web, mobile, print-on-demand), accessible, affordable educational instructional materials. Creating and maintaining those materials is expensive, and no one is going to do it for free - nor should they. What I'm suggesting is higher education teaches roughly the same top 100 highest enrolled courses... the same can be said of K-12. As such, there is an historical opportunity to share - using creative commons licensing - the digital courses and textbooks we all need. Yes - we all teach / build courses slightly differently ... and open licensing allows anyone to make changes to fit local needs.
danfeinberg

BigBlueButton - 1 views

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web2.0 cooltool opensource elluminate web conference

shared by danfeinberg on 20 Jan 11 - Cached
  • danfeinberg on 20 Jan 11
     
    open-source web conferencing...an alternative to Elluminate
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