Revolution for Education
24-December-2005
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Open-Standards ,
Open-Source ,
Open-Content ,
Educational Technology ,
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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.
opensource.ucc.ie: resources for researchers
19-May-2005
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Open-Source ,
Open-Standards ,
Shared Bookmark ,
developing open-source software ]
The University of Cork open source resources for researchers site, run by Joseph Feller, contains useful lists: research bibliography, advocacy sites, project repositories and news sites.
The University of Cork open source resources for researchers site, run by Joseph Feller, contains many resources of interest to OS researchers, in the following areas:
opensource.ucc.ie: resources for researchersresearch bibliography | advocacy sites | project repositories | news sites
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