Connexions - Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities Checklist and Links for High School Graduation (This article was last updated on 1/11/13. For continued updates, please sign up for my free monthly newsletter.) I've been compiling a list of links to free resources on the web that I use myself or that have been recommended. As I'm sure you all know, buying curriculum, especially at the high school level, can amount to hundreds of dollars per course. I try to mix and match as much as possible, carefully picking and choosing what I buy, and using free material if I can find it. Fortunately, "free" does not mean you have to compromise on quality. I thought I would share what I have to try to cut down on the time we all spend searching. First, some links to sites that offer free material in a wide array of core and elective subjects. For a list of 150 free textbooks, click here. The Wake County Public School System has a series of online video lessons called the "Success Series," which provides a review of most of the core subjects and foreign language. English II - World Literature survey
Mooc: Digitale Vorlesungshäppchen revolutionieren die Bildung | Studium Interaktive Kurz-Vorlesungen im Netz elektrisieren die akademische Welt. Unternehmen in aller Welt wollen am Boom teilhaben. Der Wettlauf beginnt. Speichern Drucken Twitter Facebook Google + Jörn Loviscach unterrichtet täglich Tausende Menschen. Er hat Mitte 2009 als erster deutscher Hochschullehrer begonnen, Massenvorlesungen ins Internet auszulagern. Anzeige Solche Modelle zeigen, wie Onlinekurse die Lehre an den Hochschulen verändern können. Eine Reihe renommierter US-Unis hat es vorgemacht. MoocPeer-to-PeerInverted ClassroomOpen Courseware Mooc Mooc ist die Abkürzung für Massive Open Online Course, eine spezielle Form der Vorlesung, die auf Video aufgezeichnet wurde und online abrufbar ist. Zum Ende eines Moocs können Studenten in der Regel eine Prüfung ablegen, für die sie ein Zertifikat erhalten. Peer-to-Peer Wer an einem Mooc teilgenommen hat, kann sich anschließend im Peer-to-Peer-Learning mit anderen Teilnehmern austauschen. Inverted Classroom Invert bedeutet umkehren. Open Courseware
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Free video lectures,Free Animations, Free Lecture Notes, Free Online Tests, Free Lecture Presentations My Learning Plan ® - Home OpenStax College gnitive Differences Between Adults & Children Author: Jeff Durham - Updated: 15 September 2012| Comment There’s an old saying that goes “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks” and, whether you believe that or not, the same principle cannot be applied to humans. In fact, adults can learn just as easily as children but there are several basic differences between what works effectively for adults and what works best for children. Experience Of Life As an adult, you’ll have had far more experience of life in general than a child and whilst this can help an adult more than a child when it comes to learning, it can also hinder them and a child’s lesser experiences can occasionally prove more beneficial. How Adults And Children Use Different Techniques For Learning For an adult learner, their experiences of life will have been far more vast and diverse than that of a child’s and their brain’s maturity will enable them to apply their learning through relating it to certain experiences they’ve had. The Significance Of ‘Purpose’ In Learning
Exploring open access in higher education | Higher Education Network Open access is using internet technology to facilitate teaching, learning and research the world over. Photograph: ESA/J.Huart/PA From the use of social media to engage students to tools designed to facilitate record keeping in HE, it would seem the academic revolution will be digitised. But arguably no other aspect of digital holds the promise of the open access (OA) philosophy and open educational resources (OER). With OER, similar tenets apply: academics create, share and allow their teaching resources not only to be used but to be amended, improved, transformed. It also looks as though the benefits of open access in HE could go beyond teaching and research. So far, so good. Following a talk point and a poll, we finally give the subject of open access the consideration it deserves. Join us then and feel free to post any questions or comments below now. This content is brought to you by Guardian Professional. Panel Steve Carson, external relations director, MIT OpenCourseWare
Snapshot: Using Popplet and Google Documents to Develop Explanation Writing for Pasifika Students Kia ora! The Virtual Learning Network (VLN), He kōtuinga ako ā-ipurangi, is an interactive resource provided by the Ministry of Education for all New Zealand educators. The VLN provides access to: The Learning Exchange is a brokerage site that enables connections between teachers and learners; joining clusters, schools, groups and individuals who are learning through online and blended programes. The VLN supports the work of the Māori Medium Kura Network and the VLN Community (VLNC), and promotes the concept of classrooms without walls, where learners and educators have the flexibility to connect with each other 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The learning exchange comprises of five areas of collaboration: Programmes of learning, Projects, Professional learning, Participation, Parents & Whanau. Find out more ... VLN Groups is a social network for teachers, school leaders and facilitators to connect, share experiences, and learn together. It includes the Enabling e-Learning community groups
Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources | for Open Educational Resources Teaching Online 3: Online teacher skills Friday 1 October 2010 by Nicky Hockly What makes a good online teacher? What are some of the key skills needed? Earlier this year, I asked our own team of very experienced online moderators what they thought. This is the list of top ten skills that we came up with: You can read more about each skill in my original blog post here. There are also a number of checklists out there which can be used for (self) evaluation by online teachers. QualificationsSubject matter knowledgeTechnical SkillsOnline task/materials design skillsSoft skills I notice that the original list of skills we came up with focused almost exclusively on soft skills. What do you think? Nicky
Open Access Timeline Physical Review X 4 May 2011 American Physical Society officially launched PRX, a online-only, open access journal, Scientific Reports 6 Jan 2011 Nature launched Scientific Reports, online and open access journal covering all areas of the natural sciences PLoS ONE 21 Dec 2006 An interactive open-access journal for the communication of all peer-reviewed scientific and medical research Scholarpedia 1 Feb 2006 Scholarpedia is a peer-reviewed open-access encyclopedia written by scholars from all around the world Science Commons 1 Jan 2005 A project of Creative Commons to make scientific research “re-useful” and integrate fragmented information sources. Google Scholar 18 Nov 2004 Google announced the launch of Google Scholar. Elsevier 3 Jun 2004 Elsevier liberalizes copyright for authors CrossRef 28 Apr 2004 An infrastructure for linking citations across publishers, and a full-scale implementation of the Digital Object Identifier (or DOI) System to date. Berlin Declaration 22 Oct 2003 PLoS Biology 13 Oct 2003 Citebase