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Jonathan Lederman

Louisiana Voices: An Educator's Guide to Exploring Our Communities and Traditions - 0 views

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K-12 Educators Louisiana Culture Community Folk Life

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  • Jonathan Lederman on 11 Apr 10
     
    This is a comprehensive Web-based guide with many lessons, essays, photos, video, and audio is public domain and adaptable for any region that is focused on the culture of Louisiana.
Jonathan Lederman

Iowa Folklife: Our People, Communities, and Traditions - 3 views

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  • Jonathan Lederman on 11 Apr 10
     
    This is an online learning guide for (but certainly not limited to) students, teachers, and senior citizens interested in the folk life of Iowa.
  • Jonathan Lederman on 11 Apr 10
     
    The website is an "award-winning online lifelong multimedia learning guide for all ages. A new volume is at www.uni.edu/iowaonline/folklife_v2."
Jonathan Lederman

Folkvine - 1 views

www.folkvine.org

art education florida folkart online interactive learning

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  • Jonathan Lederman on 11 Apr 10
     
    This is an online interactive art project which gives users video, audio, and text options to explore folk artists of Florida, including bobble head dolls who represent real-life scholars of the state's traditional culture.
Jonathan Lederman

Higher Education Reimagined With Online Courseware - Education Life - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Marian C. Diamond
  • Open University, the distance-learning behemoth based in England, has vastly increased its visibility with open courses, which frequently show up in the Top 5 downloads on Apple’s iTunes U, a portal to institutions’ free courseware as well as marketing material. The Open University’s free offerings have been downloaded more than 16 million times, with 89 percent of those downloads outside the U.K., says Martin Bean, vice chancellor of the university. Some 6,000 students started out with a free online course before registering for a paid online course.
  • Videos of her anatomy course, Integrative Biology 131, have been viewed nearly 1.5 million times on YouTube, where they have been available since 2005 to anyone with an Internet connection. Some of the world’s foremost scholars are up there for viewing, tuition free. From Yale, you can tune into an economics class by a professor with his own home-price index, Robert Shiller, or a course by the Milton scholar John Rogers. The undisputed rock star academic is Walter H. G. Lewin of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who flies across the room to demonstrate that a pendulum swings no faster or slower when there is an added mass (Professor Lewin) hanging at the end.
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  • M.I.T. OpenCourseWare Initiative helped usher in the “open educational resources” movement, with its ethos of sharing knowledge via free online educational offerings, including podcasts and videos of lectures, syllabuses and downloadable textbooks. The movement has also helped dislodge higher education from its brick-and-mortar moorings.
  • Ithaka S+R, a nonprofit service that helps academic institutions use technology for research and teaching.
  • If the mission of the university is the creation of knowledge (via research) and the dissemination of knowledge (via teaching and publishing), then it stands to reason that giving that knowledge away fits neatly with that mission.
  • eaching anatomy at the University of California, Berkeley, for 50 years
  • given higher education unprecedented reach.
  • what has it taught us?
  • material on the Internet may be free, but getting it there definitely isn’t. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the principal financial backer of the open educational movement, has spent more than $110 million over the past eight years, with more than $14 million going to M.I.T. The cost of re-creating the educational experience is high.
  • Yale has spent $30,000 to $40,000 for each course it puts online. This includes the cost of the videographer, generating a transcript and providing what Diana E. E. Kleiner, who runs Open Yale Courses, calls “quality assurance.” By next fall, Yale will have reached its initial goal of putting up 36 courses, and has plans to add more.
  • $150 million has been spent on open education over the past decade, and more money is coming in from other sources, including $8 million contributed last year by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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