Open Educational Resources
Wolfram Alpha – not a “homework killer”, but something to watch
If you read technology news, or even the Chronicle of Higher Education, you may have heard of Wolfram Alpha, a free online tool that is somewhere between a search engine, a database, and a computer algebra system. The launch of Wolfram Alpha in mid-May of this year was met with much fanfare in certain circles, [...]
Student privacy in a public world
In a previous post, I described some free, commercial tools that instructors and students can use for creating web sites for course projects. But planning a web project requires more than just finding the right technology platform. As an instructor, you need to consider what type of material is – and is not [...]
Common Craft Video Primers
New to social media tools and web 2.o technologies? Check out Common Craft: Explanations in Plain English.
Common Craft owners Sachi and Lee LeFever are
dedicated to building a library of videos that are focused on helping influencers and educators create change through better explanations. Our videos are short, simple and focused on making complex ideas easy [...]
NMC’s Rock the Academy Virtual Conference
This news just in from the New Media Consortium: a virtual symposia exploring emerging forms of collaboration and tools. Anyone interested in co-presenting a project at Penn?
Rock the Academy
Radical Teaching, Unbounded Learning
The 12th in the Series of NMC Virtual Symposia
November 4-6, 2008, via the Internet
Proposals for presentations for Rock the Academy: Radical Teaching, Unbounded [...]
Open Textbooks
Flat World Knowledge offers a new approach to textbooks: open them up and bundle them with social learning tools. Founded by Jeff Shelstad and Eric Frank, two former textbook industry executives, Flat World Knowledge’s mission statement reads:
We preserve the best of the old – books by leading experts that are rigorously reviewed and developed to [...]
