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Very cool: live cam of nesting eagle caring for two babies and one unhatched egg (Decorah IA)....and lovely... http://t.co/Gh1lQuk9 5:57 PM Mar 29th
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Today we’re bringing you a roundup of some of the great Science Fiction, Fantasy and Dystopian classics available on the web. And what better way to get started than with Aldous Huxley reading a dramatized recording of his 1932 novel, Brave New World . The reading aired on the CBS Radio Workshop in 1956.
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I increasingly fear that the open educational resources movement is being used as a way of perpetuating inequalities in education while purporting to be democratic. Some components of OERs also smack of hypocrisy, elitism and cultural imperialism (the bad), as well as failure to apply best practices in teaching and learning (the ugly). Despite my support for the idea of sharing in education (the good), these concerns have been gnawing away at me for some time, so after 42 years of working in open learning, I feel it’s time to provide a critique of the open educational resources ‘movement’. This is prompted by several recent developments, such as the following publications and events:
OERs: the good, the bad and the ugly
To study its complexities, the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology combines the experimental technologies of neurobiology, neuroscience, and psychology, with the theoretical power that comes from the fields of computational neuroscience and cognitive science. The Department was founded by Hans-Lukas Teuber in 1964 as a Department of Psychology, with the then-radical vision that the study of brain and mind are inseparable. Today, at a time of increasing specialization and fragmentation, our goal remains to understand cognition- its processes, and its mechanisms at the level of molecules, neurons, networks of neurons, and cognitive modules. We are unique among neuroscience and cognitive science departments in our breadth, and in the scope of our ambition.
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OER Handbook for Educators 1.0 - WikiEducator
In this handbook Welcome to the world of Open Educational Resources (OER). This handbook is designed to help educators find, use, develop and share OER to enhance their effectiveness online and in the classroom. Although no prior knowledge of OER [1] is required, some experience using a computer and browsing the Internet will be helpful. For example, it is preferable that you have experience using a word processor (e.g.
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We happened to mention Michael Sandel last week, and then I came across this… Harvard University and WGBH Boston have posted online Sandel’s very popular course, “Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?” How popular is it?
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Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources , learning projects , and research for use in all levels , types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning. We invite teachers , students , and researchers to join us in creating open educational resources and collaborative learning communities . To learn more, try a guided tour or start editing now . Electric Circuit Analysis deals with the fundamentals of electrical circuits, their components and the mathematical tools used to represent and analyse electrical circuits.
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Smarthistory: a multimedia web-book about art and art history
Smarthistory.org is a free and open, not-for-profit, art history textbook. Part of the Khan Academy, we use multimedia to deliver unscripted conversations between art historians about the history of art. We are seeking contributors—especially for canonical non-Western material and other survey topics not yet covered.Online textbook for post-secondary art history; great example by Feb 4
FlexBooks
California initiative for free K-12 digital textbooks by Feb 4
Thoreau as Porcupine and Orchid On this day in 1862 Henry David Thoreau died at the age of forty-four, from bronchial and respiratory problems. Thoreau was an integral but prickly member of the Transcendentalist community in Massachusetts -- as might be expected from the writer of "I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude," and as described in Emerson's funeral eulogy.