EduResources Weblog--Higher Education Resources OnlineThis weblog focuses on locating, evaluating, discussing, and providing guidelines to instructional resources for faculty and students in higher education. The emphasis is on free, shared, HE resources. Related topics and news (about commercial resources, K-12 resources, T&D resources, educational technology, digital libraries, distance learning, open source software, metadata standards, cognitive mapping, etc.) will also be discussed--along with occasional excursions into more distant...ZaidLearn's OCW + OER Lists- June 19, 2008 Zaid Ali Alsagoff has revised his OCWOER list compilation to produce an extremely useful update. Zaid's compilation should be bookmarked for reference by university instructors, students, and support staff. ______JH______University Learning = OCW + OER = FREE! Link to ZaidLearn's Delicious OCW Adventure130+ Free Learning Tools75 Free EduGames - Zaid Ali Alsagoff ( ZaidLearnhttp://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/06/university-learning-ocw-oer-free.html Web-Based Mind Mapping- June 17, 2008 Robin Good writes enthusiastically about the benefits of web-based mind-mapping, with a special focus on MindMeister (which is free in its basic version). Robin also includes links to other mind-mapping tools. The mind maps that I create are most often done with a pencil and a yellow pad, but there are advantages in using a shareable, web-based tool such as MindMeister. From a very, very broad perspective all online educational resources can be viewed as variations of a mind or topic map....http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2008/06/17/webbased_mindmapping_outline_plan_and.htm Short Course on Structured Course Development, LOs, and Standards- June 10, 2008 This excellent online course is available for free from CAREO (a Wiki version of the course is also provided for readers who might like to contribute to the presentation). The course was developed by the Resource Pool Project. The topics covered should be of especial value to developers of educational resources and resource repositories.____JH_____Course Overview This short course is intended to provide a basic overview of structured course development, learning objects, and e-learning...http://careo.prn.bc.ca/losc/losccourse.html DiRT: the Digital Research Tools Wiki- June 8, 2008 This Wiki page will be of continuing value to researchers at many levels--students, instructors, and librarians. The purpose of the site is to provide short evaluative descriptions of useful software. The software is listed in categories (from Authoring to Mapping to Utilities for easy browsing. The resources are also searchable. ____JH (Via Jane Park's post in Creative Commons.)_____"As digital information proliferates, researchers need tools to find, organize, manipulate, analyze, and share...http://digitalresearchtools.pbwiki.com/About+this+wiki Guide to Navigating Information Clutter- June 2, 2008 I admire list makers who can meaningfully select and organize useful information from among the clutter. Librarians are certainly among the most helpful list makers so I regularly read a number of library blogs. Keith Stanger, the "Library Guy" at Eastern Michigan University's Halle Library would certainly be a helpful person for students and faculty members to consult when they are looking for information. If you can't visit Keith in person, visit his "Information Advocate" web site. The site..http://keithstanger.com/ |