We have looked here before at how OCW has shaped education in the last ten years, but in many ways much of the content that has been posted online remains very much “Web 1.0.” That is, while universities have posted their syllabi, handouts, and quizzes online, there has not been — until recently — much “Web 2.0″ OCW resources — little opportunity for interaction and engagement with the material.
But as open educational resources and OCW increase in popularity and usage, there are a number of new resources out there that do offer just that. You probably already know about: Khan Academy and Wikipedia, for example. But in the spirit of 10 years of OCW, here’s a list of 10 cool OER and OCW resources that you might not know about, but should know:
The Kaloy Foundation has created a Prize called "International Kaloy Prize - University of Geneva" , in order to support research about the relationship between neurosciences and cognitive sciences - on one hand - and the theory of knowledge and the philosophy of the brain function - on the other. More info
KForge is an open-source (GPL) system for managing software and knowledge projects. It re-uses existing best-of-breed tools such as a versioned storage (subversion), a tracker (trac), and wiki (trac or moinmoin), integrating them with the system’s own facilities (projects, users, permissions etc). KForge also provides a complete web interface for project administration as well a fully-developed plugin system so that new services and features can be easily added.
P. Goodyear, und L. Markauskaite. HERDSA (Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia) Conference: 32nd, 2009, Darwin, Australia, National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), (2009)
M. Scardamalia, und C. Bereiter. Advances in applied psycholinguistics, 2: Reading, writing, and language learning, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, (1987)