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Jonathan Lederman

Center for the study of Upper Midwestern Cultures - 0 views

csumc.wisc.edu

online academic research resource

shared by Jonathan Lederman on 11 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Jonathan Lederman on 11 Apr 10
     
    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

Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage - 0 views

www.folklife.si.edu

online education Community culture folkart folklife research collaboration

shared by Jonathan Lederman on 11 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Jonathan Lederman on 11 Apr 10
     
    "The Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage is dedicated to the collaborative research, presentation, conservation, and continuity of traditional knowledge and artistry with diverse contemporary cultural communities in the United States and around the world."
Jonathan Lederman

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

www.nytimes.com/...18open-t.html

shared by Jonathan Lederman on 27 Apr 10 - Cached
  • 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.
Tomas V

Endangered Language Alliance - 2 views

endangeredlanguagealliance.org/main

Look and Feel

shared by Tomas V on 28 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Jonathan Lederman on 28 Apr 10
     
    An urban initiative for endangered language research and conservation
Jonathan Lederman

Mind42.com - 1 views

mind42.com/...mindmap

Web 2.0 21st Century Learning digital literacy tools participatory Community research

shared by Jonathan Lederman on 05 May 10 - Cached
  • Jonathan Lederman on 05 May 10
     
    This is a flow chart for useful Web 2.0 utilities
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