User:Vtaylor/Learning objects, personal learning environments, study guides/Annotated resources

Websites Mentioned in this Chapter
Why remix an Open Educational Resource? : http://olnet.org/node/68

How would you use free academic video courses from leading universities : http://www.tonybates.ca/2009/09/22/how-would-you-use-free-academic-video-courses-from-leading-universities/

Learning object, Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_object

What Are Learning Objects? : http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/AOP/LO_what.html

The Reusability Paradox, David Wiley - A content module's stand-alone pedagogical effectiveness is inversely proportional to its reusability. : http://cnx.org/content/m11898/latest/

WikiEducator - an evolving community intended for the collaborative planning of education projects linked with the development of free content, development of free content on Wikieducator for e-learning, work on building open education resources (OERs) on how to create OERs, networking on funding proposals developed as free content. : http://www.wikieducator.org/

MERLOT - searchable collection of peer reviewed and selected higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services. : http://www.merlot.org/merlot

August 2009, the Open Education conference in Vancouver, Canada : http://openedconference.org/ - Speakers:


 * Catherine Ngugi : http://openedconference.org/archives/1030


 * David Wiley : http://openedconference.org/archives/519


 * D'Arcy Norman : http://openedconference.org/archives/449


 * George Siemens & Rory McGreal : http://openedconference.org/archives/634


 * Dave Cormier : http://openedconference.org/archives/405


 * Barbara Illowsky : http://openedconference.org/archives/384


 * Leigh Blackall : http://openedconference.org/archives/526


 * Alan Levine : http://openedconference.org/archives/427


 * Videos of most sessions : http://openedconference.org/program

The Performance Environment, Clark Quinn : http://blog.learnlets.com/?p=1151

PLN Yourself, Sue Waters - to help you gain the skills to build your own personal learning network (PLN) : http://suewaters.wikispaces.com/

A Collection of PLE diagrams, Scott Leslie : http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/PLE+DIagrams

Digital Habitats: stewarding technology for communities, Nancy White : http://technologyforcommunities.com/about-the-book/

Study guide, Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Study_guide

Collaborative Statistics textbook : http://cnx.org/content/col10522/latest/

Connexions - a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute : http://cnx.org/

Open Knowledge Foundation registry of textbooks and related materials which are free for anyone to use, reuse and redistribute : http://www.opentextbook.org/

Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) - list of discipline-specific open and free textbooks that may be suitable for use in community college courses. : http://oerconsortium.org/discipline-specific/

Wikibooks - the open-content textbooks collection and tools for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit. : http://en.wikibooks.org/

Intelligent tutoring system, Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_tutoring_system

Research and Development of Learning Networks : http://www.learningnetworks.org/

Science Learning Network - an online community of educators, students, schools, science museums and other institutions demonstrating a new model for inquiry science education. : http://www.sln.org/

Models for Sustainable Open Educational Resources, Stephen Downes : http://ijello.org/Volume3/IJKLOv3p029-044Downes.pdf

Creative Commons - provide free licenses and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination : http://creativecommons.org

Wikipedia + CC BY-SA = Free Culture Win, Creative Commons : http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/15411

Introduction to Open Education - course by David Wiley - the primer on the subject : http://opencontent.org/wiki/index.php?title=Intro_Open_Ed_Syllabus

What Web 2.0 Can Teach the Open Education Movement - Leary and Wiley provide an interesting look at some of the social media sites and how they are being used to publish research and educational content. : http://cosl.usu.edu/events/opened2008/full_papers/OpenEd-Web2_Leary_Wiley.doc/view

Sustainability Models for Community College Open Textbooks - Kanter, Baker, Thierstein, and Forte discuss their work on developing and promoting open textbooks : http://cosl.usu.edu/events/opened2008/full_papers/Sustainability_Models_baker_thierstein_kanter_forte.doc/view

Center for Open and Sustainable Learning (COSL) : http://cosl.usu.edu

Open Educational Resources (OER) Handbook - a guide for educators interested in learning more about open educational resources : http://www.wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook/educator_version_one

Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) - Use of open textbooks can lower educational costs for students. : http://oerconsortium.org/

Community College Open Textbook Collaborative (CCOTC) evaluation criteria : http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/evaluate.html

Open Educational Resources (OER), its origins and history, Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources

Learning Federation - develops digital curriculum content for all Australian and New Zealand schools. : http://www.thelearningfederation.edu.au/default.asp

OER Commons - Worldwide learning network of shared teaching and learning materials made freely available online. Grouped by subject area and grade level : http://www.oercommons.org

Models for sustainable open educational resources - Stephen Downes discusses a number of issues and models associated with the sustainability of of creation, distribution and use of learning objects. : http://ijello.org/Volume3/IJKLOv3p029-044Downes.pdf

Use and abuse of reusable learning objects - Although this was written in 2003 and a number of the terms have evolved, it is interesting to note how the processes and ideas have evolved for these early beginnings : http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/rt/printerFriendly/89/88

UK Open University : http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/

Creating open educational resources from the UK Open University - creating your own open educational resources, write a learning unit, resources : http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=3636

Wikiversity - a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning. : http://en.wikiversity.org/

Composing free and open online educational resources - online course at Wikiversity, assignments include links to many good resources including, history, copyright, media : http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Composing_free_and_open_online_educational_resources

Social Media & Open Education - an open course developed and facilitated by Alec Couros : http://eci831.wikispaces.com/

Open Education Conference - Vancouver, Canada, hosted by the University of British Columbia August 12 - 14, 2009. : http://openedconference.org/

OER Foundation - provides leadership, networking and support for educators and educational institutions to achieve their objectives through Open Education : http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:OER_Foundation

Learning4Content - The OER Foundation and WikiEducator offer a free online workshop every month : http://wikieducator.org/Learning4Content

Social Network Analysis, A Brief Introduction - mapping and measuring of relationships and flows between people, groups, organizations, computers, URLs, and other connected information/knowledge entities to understanding the relationships within a personal learning network : http://www.orgnet.com/sna.html

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching), a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. : http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

Wisc-Online is a web-based repository of learning objects, developed primarily by faculty members from the Wisconsin Technical College System. : http://www.wisc-online.com/

Open Courseware(OCW) Consortium - free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses from more than 200 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world : http://www.ocwconsortium.org/index.php

Stanford University - provides access to a wide range of Stanford-related digital audio content : http://itunes.stanford.edu/

Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative - includes some open and free courses : http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/

Tufts OpenCourseWare - provides free access to course content : http://ocw.tufts.edu/

Johns Hopkins Open CourseWare project - open access to information and knowledge about the obstacles to the public's health and their potential solutions. : http://ocw.jhsph.edu/

MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) - a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity. : http://ocw.mit.edu

Utah State OpenCourseWare - a collection of educational material to provide people around the world with an opportunity to access high quality learning opportunities. : http://ocw.usu.edu/

University of Notre Dame OpenCourseWare : http://ocw.nd.edu/

Yale University - podcasts : http://itunes.yale.edu/

Free Lectures & Courses from Great Universities (Audio and Video) : http://www.openculture.com/2007/07/freeonlinecourses.html

Public Library of Science - open access journals on a broad range of sciences from the nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource : http://www.plos.org/

Open Educational Resources (OER) Commons includes resources at all grade levels although post-secondary make up a significant portion of the total - Primary (5342), Secondary (8028), Post-secondary (16111) --as of September 2009 : http://www.oercommons.org/

MERLOT - wide range of subjects. formats and grade levels, many include peer reviews : http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

Learning Federation - available to schools in Australia and New Zealand : http://www.thelearningfederation.edu.au/default.asp

Kathy's list - one of the earliest lists of links to primary learning objects, predating the term by nearly a decade. In the late 1990s, Kathy Schrock maintained "the list" of links to lesson plans and educational materials for K-12. Now part of the Discovery Channel online resources. : http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/

European SchoolNet - work includes building a Learning Resource Exchange (LRE) : http://www.europeanschoolnet.org/

Context eLearning with Broadband Technologies (CELEBRATE) - pedagogy for the design and use of collaborative and interoperable Learning Objects in integrated learning environments : http://celebrate.eun.org/

WatchKnow lists thousands of reviewed short educational videos available on the web. It is a non-profit, online community that encourages everyone to collect, create, and share free, innovative, educational videos. : http://www.watchknow.org/

Free Reading : http://freereading.net

Chickering and Gamson Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education : http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/7princip.htm

Sofia Project - free exchange of community college-level materials : http://sofia.fhda.edu/

A Quick Guide to Social Learning, Jane Hart : http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/handbook/intro.html

My Personal Learning Environment, Michele Matin : http://michelemartin.typepad.com/thebambooprojectblog/2007/04/my_personal_lea.html

20 reasons why students should blog, Anne Mirtschin : http://murcha.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/20-reasons-why-students-should-blog/

The Manchester Personal Learning Environment mPLE : http://hedtek.com/?p=164

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license : http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/15411