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Christian Olson's picture

Creating User Community for OCW Through Sharing Lecture Movies

I was able to attend this session from Professor Fukuhara. The gist of the entire session was to show how Keio University in Japan does their open education.  Most of the materials and methods have been done before and were not that unique, but there was something that was very interesting. They've created educational videos with two great features: 1) they are exported to fit an iPhone screen, allowing students to use the videos wherever they have their phone, and 2) create an way to have interactive video.Click here to read more »
Submitted by Christian Olson on Tue, 09/30/2008 - 10:20am
Mark Weiss's picture

USU Rocks! - COSL Conference 2008

I attended a number of classes on Thursday, as I was the room-dude. I learned something from each one. There were two, however, that were especially good.
 
Yale University and Online Learning
Funded by the Hewlett Foundation, Yale made some very interesting decisions in producing Open Courseware.
First they felt their strength was not in a particular format but in the teacher themselves and their presentations.Click here to read more »
Submitted by Mark Weiss on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 10:27pm
James Wilson's picture

OpenCourseware Blog - James Wilson

Initially, I was not sure about what OCW really was.  After spending some time reading the USU OCW site, I was very imprsessed with what the goals were and what could be achieved. 
Providing open access to course materials is a great concept.  I know as an educator that this is smoething that I could use in my school.  Not only is it a great resource of information for me as a teClick here to read more »
Submitted by James Wilson on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 9:41am
Laura Watkins's picture

Physics and Mathematics OCW

NCTU (a university in Taiwan) has implemented OCW for Calculus I/II and Physics courses.  The university has its own digital content office and built a "classroom" exclusively for filming its courseware.  The program started in 2006 and is funded by the Ministry of Education.  The reason the courses offered by this university are Calculus and Physics is that the University is well known for its teaching and research in science and engineering.   Two of the crucial entry level courses are Physics and Calculus.
 
Submitted by Laura Watkins on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 9:27am
Mark Grammer's picture

Taiwan’s OpenCourseWare--Mark's Impressions

I attended Li HaiShuo's presentation on Open Course Ware at NCTU in Hsin Chu (I believe) Taiwan (ocw.nctu.edu.tw)
 
Li helped NCTU prepare introductory OCW classes in Physics and Calculus.  He had mixed results.  Students taking the courses for credit at the university had high success rates.  But pre-college students who were taking the class in their summer break almost never completed the course.  Li attributed this to lack of necessity of completion for non-NCTU students and playing too much onClick here to read more »
Submitted by Mark Grammer on Wed, 09/24/2008 - 10:49pm
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