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...The Fuss--Resources for Learning about RSS- May 29, 2008 I found this listing of rss workshops, tutorials, and information on the University of British Columbia Wiki. The information included in The Fuss really does convey what all the fuss is about when it comes to using rich site syndication feeds to keep up with postings from diverse sources across the Web. Next to using e-mail and search engines in browsers, the ability to acquire and organize rss feeds is a primary information literacy skill for students, instructors, and all others who visit...http://careo.elearning.ubc.ca/wiki?TheFuss Guide to Online Course Design- May 28, 2008 This chapter is called "Design with Learning in Mind" from Robin Smith's Guide to Online Course Design. The author successfully summarizes the key components in designing an online course and brings out the crucial differences between an online course and a classroom course. ____JH (Via Tomorrow's Professor.)____--"The posting below looks at how to develop learner-centered environments for online courses. It is from Chapter 1, Design with Learning in Mind, in the book, Conquering The Content:..http://cgi.stanford.edu/~dept-ctl/cgi-bin/tomprof/posting.php?ID=869 CLARe--Contextualized Learning Activity Repository- May 26, 2008 CLARe currently contains resources related to language learning and study skills but plans are underway to expand the contents. Take a look to see what's available. ___JH______"CLARe (Contextualised Learning Activity Repository) is a repository for online learning and teaching materials. It contains complete interactive, multimedia activities (learning objects) and individual resources, such as texts, video or audio recordings (assets).Use our search facility to find the most appropriate...http://clare.eprints.org/ The Harvey Project on Human Physiology- May 16, 2008 I've followed the Harvey Project for many years; they continue to improve and expand the resources that the site provides for the teaching of human physiology. Even if you've visited the Project before, it's worth a new look just to see what has been added. ___JH_____"An international collaboration of educators, researchers, physicians, students, programmers, instructional designers and graphic artists working together to build interactive, dynamic human physiology course materials on the Web...http://opencourse.org/Collaboratories/harveyproject/ Introduction to Open Educational Resources- May 11, 2008 This introduction to OERs is available at Connexions. It was prepared by Dr. Judy Baker of Foothill College to assist instructors in using open textbooks and other online educational resources. I highly recommend this tutorial for teachers new to OERs and as a review for professionals who are already familiar with using online educational resources. _____JH ______ "A self-paced tutorial about open educational resources as alternatives to textbooks for college teachers. Visitors are invited.http://cnx.org/content/col10413/latest/ Open Access Directory- May 5, 2008 The aims of the Open Access movement, the Open Software movement, and the Open Educational Resources movement overlap, with each movement influencing the others. This new Open Access Directory wiki should be a valuable asset for professionals in all three fields. ___JH(Thanks to Carolina Rossini for this reference.) ______ "Welcome to the Open Access Directory (OAD), a compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community..http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Main_Page |