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ISAPS Open System for Science Learning Games
On Friday, September 26th, I attended the 1:15 to 2:00 p.m. lecture given by Matt Brinton regarding the science learning game that he, Jon Scoresby and Dr.Click here to read more »
Submitted by April Fawson on Sat, 09/27/2008 - 2:37pm
Supporting Meaningful Learning with Online Resources Developing a Review Process
During the 2:15 to 3:00 p.m. block of the conference I attended the lecture given by Heather Leary of Utah State regarding how to develop meaningful learning using online resources.
I'm very interested in this subject, as I work for Regional Campuses and Distance Education here at USU and the majority of our students are non-traditional students taking independent study, online or IP video broadcast courses.
I feel that our students could benefit a great deal from the initiative that Heather Leary et al.Click here to read more »
Submitted by April Fawson on Sat, 09/27/2008 - 2:22pm
NROC's value in collaboration
The second session I attended complimented the first quite well. It focused more on the content itself and about how not all open materials are valuable and collaboration can lead to more valuable content. This is specifically what the National Repository of Online Courses (NROC) addresses – how to utilize collaboration to make content stronger. Some of the ideas presented for better material included:Click here to read more »
Submitted by Matthew Bemer on Sat, 09/27/2008 - 11:21am
Yale's piloted open courseware
The first session that I attended showed me how much more popular open education is than I had originally thought. The speaker was presenting just from the standpoint of Yale, and here are some of the facts he gave about their piloted open courseware:
- One-half million users
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How to Spread Out Useful Information
Time: 10:00~10:45 Friday session
Topic: What Web 2.0 can Teach the Open Education Movement
Speaker: Heather Leary, Utah State Univeristy
David Wiley, Brigham Young University
Their topic talked about how we can use open online community such as facebook, myspace, youtube, to spread out useful information.
It's good that we have these kind of websites to put some information on because they are viewed by mClick here to read more »
Submitted by Yu-Fang Wang on Fri, 09/26/2008 - 10:13am
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