Are you a WikiEducator?
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on December 1st, 2008
WikiEducator allows educators to share free e-learning content. It is an evolving community with a focus on the collaborative planning of education projects, building open education resources, and networking on funding proposals.
Interesting content includes the Internationalising Online programs toolkit; principles, procedures and practice for e-learning, and a look at educational uses of Playstation [...]
Ebay University?
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on November 28th, 2008
Welcome to the School of Everything. This site claims to help students find local tutors and independent classes in all subjects, worldwide.
An article in The Guardian reports on SoE’s conception:
“A friend and I were chatting about how hard it was to find opportunities to learn non-traditional subjects,” says Paul Miller, one of the site’s five [...]
Is Second Life the future of academic conferences?
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on November 24th, 2008
Donald MacLeod from The Mortarboard blog asks: is Second Life the future of academic conferences? Having recently attended his first SL conference (as a woman) he is uncertain about its potential for replacing the traditional conference, describing the experience as awkward, a mixture of the bizarre and familiar.
In Small World, David Lodge describes academic [...]
P2P University
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on November 7th, 2008
Peer to Peer University is described by one of its founders, Joel Thierstein, as “a vetted book club, where you do exams at the end.”
In other words, P2PU is an online community of open study groups for tertiary-level courses lasting six weeks. The teachers are all volunteers, and the plan is to enrol the first [...]
Ohio University’s Second Life Campus
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on September 19th, 2008
Ohio University’s Second Life campus promises a university where “learners thrive in an environment unbridled by space, time or the even the laws of physics … where the classroom has been not just recreated, but reinvented … limited only by your imagination…” The university has developed several teaching and learning projects on the virtual campus.
It’s [...]