Moving with Math Open Books and TextBooks Online, Free « Enzo Silva blog Taking after the movement of open source (free – as in freedom) software development, knowledge and information has also been “open sourced” (and crowdsourced) as new Web technologies allow for flexibility and ease of online collaboration in generating content. Textbooks are now on the same route and here are a few interesting resources for those who are tired of paying absurd prices for academia content out there. Let’s t get all of our mind and expertise together and share knowledge more wisely than the good ol’ authoritative knowledge consumption models allow us to… Question: Why don’t more experts and professors join the trend of open books? WikiBooks – From the same company that maintains WikiPedia, this is an incredible collection of open books in any subject imaginable. Flat World Knowledge - This website’s goal is to share quality, peer-reviewed books in many areas of expertise. Open Book Project - They still don’t have much in their collection of books. Like this: Like Loading...
MIND Research Institute - Home Google Forms Branching – Digital Story Telling « Enzo Silva blog The Google Apps team published a blog post explaining improvements to the Forms tool allowing form creators to easily configure branching of pages depending on the respondent’s choice for every question. This feature has a lot of potential for digital story telling. Teachers or students can create interactive stories that evolve with the reader’s every choice. In fact, the Google Apps team emphasizes this possible use on that same blog post with the sample interactive adventure “The Hunt for the terrible Dr. von Schneider”. It is a short little adventure but it illustrates the concept fairly well. Based on the Google Apps team’s post, as easy as 1, 2, 3: 1. 2. 3. Like this: Like Loading... Math Practice and Math Help with MathScore | Free Practice Worksheets and Demos
Ontology Tools - TechWiki This listing received its last major update on Aug 22, 2010 (though with minor additions since). All tools added at that time are marked with <New> (new only means newly discovered; some had yet to be discovered in prior listings). There are now a total of 185 tools in the listing, 31 of which are new, and 45 from the first release. Comprehensive Ontology Tools Altova SemanticWorks is a visual RDF and OWL editor that auto-generates RDF/XML or nTriples based on visual ontology design. Not Apparently in Active Use Adaptiva is a user-centred ontology building environment, based on using multiple strategies to construct an ontology, minimising user input by using adaptive information extraction Exteca is an ontology-based technology written in Java for high-quality knowledge management and document categorisation, including entity extraction. Vocabulary Prompting Tools AlchemyAPI from Orchestr8 provides an API based application that uses statistical and natural language processing methods.
Khan Academy Free Full Online Courses by Stanford University – Spring 2012 « Enzo Silva blog Several universities world-wide have made their courseware available in different formats over the years. A very popular format is that of podcasts on iTunesU or video lectures on Youtube. See, for instance, this broad list of “free courseware” offerings by major universities. Yale, for example, has made several past lectures available on their Open Yale website. The Open University lets students try course materials for free on their OpenLearn resources page, which. Often, these courses are nothing but pre-recorded videos and audio elements (not full interactive courses) made public by the universities as a form of community outreach (which is already great, don’t get me wrong). However, Stanford University is blazing trails for open online courseware. The current Spring 2012 semester offerings include courses on an eclectic variety subjects ranging from Computer Science to Game Theory, from Anatomy to Linguistics: by Nick Parlante by Armando Fox and David Patterson
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