Revolution for Education
24-December-2005
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Software Development ,
Shared Bookmark ,
Open-Standards ,
Open-Source ,
Open-Content ,
Educational Technology ,
developing open-source software ]
A wiki website with many links to help educators and academics with the creation of learning objects or educational software.
Revolution-Education wiki
This website covers a very large range of topics, of interest of education software developers, from beginner to advanced.
- Introduction: Motivations to use computers to support teaching, Benefits of Multimedia enhanced learning, Evaluating the efficiency of the computer-based Learning.
- Engaging e-learning: Why, after years or rather unsuccessful use of the web for learning content publishing, educators should start to invest in web-aware desktop applications. Web-browsers excel at content presentation, not at content creation or manipulation.
- Learning Activities: Self-paced training, blended learning, simulations, quizzes, assessment, etc. Including link to reusable e-tivities online.
- Learning Objects: Learning Objects = content + interface + Metadata. Discussion of the use, coding of learning objects. List of links of learning object repositories.
- Delivery Environments: Information specific to some delivery environment, like web-browsers, webCT, PDAs, standalone applications. Includes a wiki-essay on using wikis to support teaching.
- An Open World: Open Source Software, Open Content, etc.
- Software and Tools: Software and tools useful to educators and academics.
- Coding and Programming: Information specific to some programming languages and information about techniques to solve specific problems (for instance, automatic graph drawing).
- XML specifications: Markup specifications for the encoding of web or learning material (IMS, SCORM, and many others).
- Ontologies: Ontologies, text classification, recommender systems, etc.
- Adding Media: Finding images, sound, videos, on the web. Creating multimedia content.
- Design: Principles of design, usability, accessibility, interface components, functionalities.
- Distribution: Licensing/copyright, Digital Rights Management
- Further Links and References: Resources specific to some types of learners (K12, University), specific to some learning topics, specific to some countries, etc.
