Open-Of-Course
22-August-2006
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Open-Content ]
New interactive platform for free content courses and tutorials
Open-of-course.org is a new website for courses and tutorials that are published as open content.
Our focus is at the start mainly on open source software courses but as we grow more will be added.
Our goal is to create a multi-lingual platform for free quality educational information. Open-of-course is set up as an open source project and therefore we look for people to help us in further develloping this.
Take a look at our website for more information.
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.
