If life were longer I might want to play with this kind of thing. I wonder if in my son's lifetime intelligent tutoring systems will be able to go to university?
a listing of open access journals (name, url, and RSS feed) that publish papers on the nexus between technology and education (educational technology, instructional design, e-learning, online distance education, and so on, and so on).
via http://education.zdnet.com/?p=2417 "Like Twitter, it’s a microblogging site, but it builds in significant additional functionality to support classroom interactions." "When you create an account, you designate yourself as a teacher or student. Teachers can create groups that students join when they create their accounts (students can join multiple groups and teachers can create and/or join multiple groups); when a group is created, the site generates a group code that must be entered to join. Then, messages, files, links, and assignments can be sent to whole groups."
"We are building a user-friendly educational ecosystem that will give internet users around the world the ability to easily find, interact with, and learn from full video courses and lectures from the world’s leading scholars. Our goal is to bring the best content together in one place and create an environment in which that content is remarkably easy to use and where user contributions make existing content increasingly valuable." Organisiert von Richard Ludlow; gestartet mit ca. 180 Vorlesungen aus Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford und Yale.
TED for the rest of us.\nThe main purpose of the project Videolectures.Net is to provide free and open access of a high quality video lectures presented by distinguished scholars and scientists at the most important and prominent events like conferences, summer schools, workshops and science promotional events from many fields of Science. The portal is aimed at promoting science, exchanging ideas and fostering knowledge sharing by providing high quality didactic contents not only to a scientific community but also to a general public. All lectures, accompanying documents, information and links are systematically selected and classified through the editorial process taking into account also users' comments.
Dokeos is an Open Source elearning and course management web application translated in 34 languages and helping more than 1.000 organisations worldwide to manage learning and collaboration activities.
Welcome to wordcircle, a course management tool and learning community for teachers, students and those looking to create and conduct online web courses. Wordcircle is open-source, commercial free and available at no cost.
Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a 50,000-student University. This site itself is created using Moodle, so check out the Moodle Demonstration Courses or read the latest Moodle Buzz.
Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a 50,000-student University. This site itself is created using Moodle, so check out the Moodle Demonstration Courses or read the latest Moodle Buzz.
Also very powerful: Claroline is an Open Source eLearning and eWorking platform allowing organizations to build effective online courses and to manage learning and collaborative activities on the web. Translated into 35 languages, Claroline has a large worldwide users’ and developers’ community.
Looks very nice and powerful! "Welcome to OLAT - the web-based Open Source Learning Management System (LMS). OLAT is open source, 100% Java and completely free of charge.
The development of OLAT started 1999 at the University of Zurich, Switzerland where it is the strategic learning management system and deployed on the main OLAT server. The University of Zurich leads the further development and has a team of 12 developers pushing OLAT to the next level."
M. Auer (Hrsg.) Interactive Computer aided Learning (ICL) 2009 International Conference Villach/Austria, Seite 816-818. Kassel, kassel university press,, (2009)
Y. Atif. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Intelligent Semantic Web-Services and Applications, Seite 24:1--24:5. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2010)
P. Dolog, N. Henze, W. Nejdl, und M. Sintek. Proceedings of the 13th international World Wide Web conference on Alternate track papers & posters, Seite 170--179. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2004)