"The OpenLearn website gives free access to Open University course materials. This is the LearningSpace, where you'll find hundreds of free study units, each with a discussion forum. Study independently at your own pace or join a group and use the free learning tools to work with others."
"Welcome to the North Carolina Learning Object Repository. The NCLOR is an online library of instructional resources for North Carolina's K-20 educators."
"The Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) is an online community of open study groups for short university-level courses. Think of it as online book clubs for open educational resources. The P2PU helps you navigate the wealth of open education materials that are out there, creates small groups of motivated learners, and supports the design and facilitation of courses. Students and tutors get recognition for their work, and we are building pathways to formal credit as well. Sign-up for the next round of courses is tentatively scheduled to open in September 2010. However, you can still access all the course materials and even follow the discussions. And our pilot phase courses are in the http://archive.p2pu.org."
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"Your Link to North Carolina's eLearning Resources
You can be an eLearner too. If you are interested in understanding what it takes to be an eLearner, the About section can answer all of your questions from how to prepare for eLearning to how to pay for eLearning. If you have an interest in eLearning in North Carolina, check out one of the following sections:
K-12 - From elementary to high school; to preparing for college or getting a GED."
Knowing how to acquire the right information when needed is more importnat than memorization.
Part I Activity: How is the chapter 2 guiding question and Masie’s "fingertip knowledge" reflected in classroom instruction in your school or district? To discuss this guiding question, go to Discussion Board below in the Connecting, Communicating, and Collaborating section of the Navigation Bar.
When you request to join the group, then you will receive notification that you can then post. There may be a slight delay so it may be necessary to write your comments in another location and transfer them on another day.
Additional Chapter 2 Activity: To better experience "fingertip knowledge" and ease of information access use Google Squared, http://www.google.com/squared. Google Squared pulls information from various websites into a table format for rapid location and connection of information. Keep in mind Albert Einstein's quote," Information is not knowledge."
There is nothing that is required for this assignment, but you might try and find wayst that this might be useful by exploring a video tutorial about Google Squared.