[OSGeo-Edu] of possible interest to some

[Helena Mitasova]

On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 09:40 -0400, Charlie Schweik wrote:
> Hi folks-
> 
> STATUS REPORT: 
> 
> We're still holding at 4 postings of educational content. I *know*
> there's more out there. If you have some please post at
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Educational_Content_Inventory. If you
> have any connections to OSGeo projects who might have content, encourage
> them to post it here.

Just a note regarding the content maintained by OSGeo projects - for
GRASS I looked at everything that we have and most of it is partially
obsolete, the only material that is actively updated are manual pages
and the GRASS book, the tutorials that I have posted reflect the status
in sept. 2006 so they are usable but could use update too.

Helena
> 
> We've got a couple new additions to the the participant list... GOOD.
> Please add your entry if you haven't already.
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/OSGeo_education_interested_participants
> 
> NEW ITEM OF POSSIBLE INTEREST. CHECK OUT: 
> 
> 1) "A review of the Open Educational Resources Movement" by John Seely
> Brown and others
> (http://www.hewlett.org/NR/rdonlyres/5D2E3386-3974-4314-8F67-5C2F22EC4F9B/0/AReviewoftheOpenEducationalResourcesOERMovement_BlogLink.pdf)
> 
> 2) The Open Courseware Consortium (http://www.ocwconsortium.org/) . I
> need to read up on this, but we might want to explore connections with
> them.
> 
> 3) The eduCommons (http://cosl.usu.edu/projects/educommons/) - this is
> another possible open source platform option for our effort. I need to
> look at it more, but it appears to have the COURSE as the unit, and not
> MODULES.
> 
> More soon on #3 which is related to the task on the collaborative
> platform we move to. I need some time to pull our options together
> (e.g., Wiki, Moodle, Rice Connexions, now the above) and to finalize the
> subcommittee. 
> 
> Tyler: can either we talk over the phone or can you send me information
> on the Wiki option you showed me in Victoria? 
> 
> Thanks all!
> Charlie
> 
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