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A planning meeting to prepare for India's version of MedNet. Participants included Mr. Sam Pitroda, Parvati Dev and Sakti Srivastava of SUMMIT (Stanford Univ.), Anil Srivastava of AcrossWorld, Raj Shah of CTIS Inc., Mark Dutz and Karim Aziz of the World Bank, Sri Sridharan, KRS Murthy, Tom Buckholtz, Jeff Smith and Rob Stephenson.
A videoconference on open resources for education with Mr. Sam Pitroda, chair of India's Knowledge Commission. The purpose of the videoconference is to share with India's Knowledge Commission the work on open resources for education and explore the possibility of collaboration between providers of open resources and Indian institutions of higher learning. The videoconference is scheduled for Wed. July 20, 2005, from 7:00 - 10:00 AM PDT.
The event takes place from 3:00 - 4:00 PM EDT on April 21. This online event has 3 sections: I. Overview Currently available collections & repositories of instructional resources, with an annotated list of especially interesting/useful ones. II. Intro to MERLOT “Best of breed” of currently available collections (referatories). Includes: * How to get and take advantage of free “membership” * How to find, assemble, annotate, and share focused selections of instructional resources. * How to use “feed” (RSS, etc.) options to get automatic updates of various parts of MERLOT. Participants will move beyond simple browsing of the MERLOT Website to explore ways the Website supports community-building within the disciplines. First, participants will become MERLOT members, and then explore how the Member Directory can identify potential collaborators. Next, participants will practice the procedure for contributing materials – the first step by which MERLOT disseminates learning objects and confers professional recognition through peer review. Finally, participants will establish Personal Collections, individualized and annotated listings of learning objects of significance to the member. We will see how Personal Collections can be used to identify other members who share specific interests, and to invite others within the discipline to join in a collaborative activity. III. Dangerous Discussion Articulating the ways in which the development, availability and use of these collections and repositories can lead to a “Dangerous Discussion” – and how to reformulate the issues for more constructive dialogue. E.g.: * Is there a fundamental conflict between: A. Most faculty/professional development programs being supported WITHIN an institution vs. B. Many collections (repositories, referatories) being structured to be used by people within the same academic discipline independent of their institutional affiliation? * Is it realistic to organize faculty/professional development programs that focus on inter-institutional (disciplinary) cohorts? * Is it feasible or desirable to develop a comprehensive collection of instructional resources?
Students will present their multimedia projects after studying the work of Dr. Doug Engelbart
Methods and open resources (online or otherwise) for the teaching of English as a second language. Speakers are Karen Garcia and Renata Suzuki. The times listed below are PST. In international time the videoconference will take place on Nov. 23, 2004 from 01:30 to 03:00 UTC.
A demonstration of resources from MIT OpenCourseWare for Engineering education. Speakers from MIT are Vijay Kumar, Assistant Provost and Director of Academic Computing, and Dick Yue, Associate Dean of the School of Engineering. The times listed below are PST. In international time the videoconference will take place on Nov. 9, 2004 from 01:30 to 03:00 UTC.
This session is part of the US National Science Foundation Digital Library All-Projects Meeting in Chicago. The hands-on workshop will discuss factors critical for the success of such "open course" collaborations, and will guide participants through the process of creating and running one of their own on OpenCourse.Org, a free and open platform designed to support virtual teams developing and using reusable learning assets. It is a hosted site and so there is no software to install. It is a freeze-dried online collaboratory: just add users and stir! Each collaboratory gets its own Website and suite of tools for learning object development and collaboration. (Supported by NSF grant DUE-0226367) Times given below are CST (Chicago time).
This meeting will be a planning discussion to determine the direction of future Open Course Conversations with Sri Lanka and the projects that may arise from them. The times listed below are PST. In international time the videoconference will take place on Oct. 26, 2004 from 01:30 to 03:00 UTC.
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and The World Group are discussing ways and means to work together to make high-quality content freely available on the Web. This videoconference will explore these possbilities in the context of the African Virtual University. Participants include representatives from the World Bank, the Hewlett Foundation, the African Virtual University, Acrossworld and several American Universities.
Speaker will be Candace Thille, Director of Carnegie Mellon University's Open Learning Initiative. Time and date given below are PDT. In international time the videoconference will take place on Oct. 12, 2004 from 01:30 to 03:30 UTC.
The next Open Course Conversation will take place on Sept. 16, 2004 at 01:30-03:30 Universal Time. The topic will be “Finding and Using Open e-Learning Resources for Chemistry” from the MERLOT digital library. Participating will be the Editors, Nancy Kerner and Neil Kestner, of the MERLOT Chemistry Review Board, a group of chemistry faculty from Colombo and possibly other DLCs, and the moderators Anil Srivastava and Robert Stephenson. For more information, see the supporting Website: http://opencourse.org/Collaboratories/occonversations The times given below are PDT (UT-7).
An Open Course Conversation about MERLOT, the foremost digital library of educational course materials. Participating on the conversation are university and business representatives in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on the one hand, and Flora McMartin, MERLOT Director of Membership Services and Evaluation on the other. Times are given in PDT (UT - 7:00).
A conversation with university and business representatives in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on the one hand, and Jon Paul Potts, Communications Manager for MIT's OpenCourseWare program on the other. Times are given in PDT (UT - 7:00).
The contribution of social software to education is the emergence of virtual communities devoted to the collaborative construction and sharing of knowledge. Nowhere is the need for this greater than in the development of reusable educational content, a labor-intensive process of staggering magnitude. This workshop will discuss factors critical for the success of such "open course" collaborations, and will guide participants through the process of creating one of their own on OpenCourse.Org, a free and open platform designed to support virtual teams developing reusable learning assets. It is a hosted site and so there is no software to install. It is a freeze-dried online collaboratory: just add developers and stir! Each collaboratory gets its own Website and suite of tools for learning object development and collaboration. (Supported by NSF grant DUE-0226367)
