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Jonathan Lederman

Academic Commons - 0 views

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  • Jonathan Lederman on 06 Apr 10
     
    The Academic Commons website is dedicated to providing articles composed by, "faculty, academic technologists, librarians, administrators, and other academic professionals" relating to the use of emerging technologies that rely on interactivity and participation on a college level. The site is mainly organized into issues containing posts that look much like a typical blog, but they are professionally written and contain great content. There is a lot of relevant content relating to the participatory future of Chinavine.
Jonathan Lederman

Come for the Content, Stay for the Community - 0 views

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  • Jonathan Lederman on 06 Apr 10
     
    Found on the Academic Commons site, I believe this is one of the more relevant articles regarding what the future of VineOnline may look like. This article is broken down into six sections, each asking poignant questions about problems that VineOnline could face in the future. The article uses Ionic VIPEr as the platform to develop solutions to these questions.
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.
Jonathan Lederman

Center for the study of Upper Midwestern Cultures - 0 views

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    The web site of Local Learning links to national and regional resources and virtual folk artist residencies, specifically relating to Upper Midwestern cultures. "Archiving Projects promote organizational partnerships to identify, preserve, and make accessible for public use the region's historic and contemporary folk heritage as documented in audio and video interviews, photography, exhibits, and publications resulting primarily from ethnographic fieldwork. These projects serve the teaching, research, and outreach needs of the Center's staff, affiliated faculty, public folklorists, scholars, documented traditional practitioners and their heirs, and others interested in exploring and promoting the region's folk heritage."
Jonathan Lederman

Cultural Arts Resources for Teachers and Students - 0 views

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  • Jonathan Lederman on 11 Apr 10
     
    "...a virtual extension of City Lore's educational programs and its National Network for Folk Arts in Education. As you explore the people, places, and traditions that turn communities into classrooms, stock your cart high with the many useful resources available inside."
Jonathan Lederman

Digital Traditions: A Public Access Initiative for Folklife and Material Culture - 1 views

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    "The FRC (Folklike Resource Center) houses an extensive archive containing a wide variety of materials in multiple formats. The project addresses two goals. The first goal involves transferring all of these analog formats into a more stable digital medium. This requires the digitization of thousands of photographs and slides, hundreds of hours of analog audio and video documentation. The second goal - user accessibility. Website visitors will now have unprecedented access to the archive through audio, video, and image-based media. Never before has the material housed in the FRC been available to such a wide audience."
Jonathan Lederman

CyberFrequencies: How Kids Use Technology vs. Public Schools - 0 views

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  • Jonathan Lederman on 27 Apr 10
     
    "Many public schools still don't have reliable Internet. Teachers are super lucky if they have a few working computers in their classroom. Kids in lower socio-economic neighborhoods can't get consistent Internet connection at home. When those kids step out of high school will they be prepared for the 21st century work force?"
Tomas V

Intangible Cultural Heritage | - 2 views

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  • Tomas V on 28 Apr 10
     
    This is site about intangible cultural heritage in newfoundland...includes community profiles and topic collections.
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