Modern education being generally less didactic and more collaborative, with teamwork emphases on just about everything including research and even test-taking, traditional classwork increasingly is being conducted online — lectures, research, discussion, debate, team projects, consultation with the "teacher", even the "tests" —
traditional education — traditional schools employ "massively distributed collaboration" in their courses, establishing class wikis and blogs and email bulletin boards, and offering syllabi to the :
- general public and soliciting input. Overview
example: MIT Open Courseware
Sample of how Open Courseware videos get transcribed for MIT, by volunteers:
OOPS list of courses volunteering
ocw.uci.edu courses
Preparing to teach high school math Self test (part of California Subject Examination for Teachers)
High school topics on line ucopenaccess.org
CORE OCW (China)
FETP OCW (Vietnam)
Japan OCW Alliance
Johns Hopkins OCW
MIT OCW
OOPS OCW (Taiwan)
ParisTech OCW FRENCH/FRANCAIS
Tufts OCWUC
Irvine OCW
Universia OCW (Spanish/Portuguese)
Utah State OCW
NASA Connect∞
WGBH Open Vault∞
http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/∞
eGranary Project∞
One Laptop Per Child∞ - the $100 laptop - more here∞
Top 10 Rankings_for_Business_Administration_OpenCourseWare_Education
ubc.ca the Canadian perspective audio conference and comments
elearning.ubc.ca Toward Open Education - distance education — very old and established correspondence schools now are switching en masse to online, and many new such schools are emerging
example: The Open University
example: The University of Phoenix - continuing education / career retraining — in the outsourcing and offshoring Globalization changes, career retraining has taken on a critical significance, much of it using "massively distributed collaboration" online
example: UC Berkeley Extension - lifelong learning — the current era is spawning ageing population demographic bulges, in Europe and the US and Japan and anywhere which hosted a postwar BabyBoom, now moving into its 60s — reaching such people with lifelong learning offerings increasingly uses "massively distributed collaboration" in instruction techniques
example: (shutdown) AllLearn — Oxford & Yale & Stanford
source wikipedia
BY SUBJECT:
- Learning electric videos for software study
Microsoft Word Microsoft Excel Microsoft PowerPoint Microsoft Publisher Microsoft FrontPage Microsoft Access HTML Basics - HP courses by email
- Spanish Gramaclicando click on exercises & principiantes.wordpress.com
- French online workbook cmu.edu
- excel 2002
Online education portal sources
Our resources: RECIT WIKI AskAway
google adult education resources for teachers
cssmi queensu resources beginning-teachers
lesson plans and other countless resources
