Difference between revisions of "Education/Collaboratively generated educational material"

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* [http://www.openculture.com/ Open Culture] has lists of online courses
 
* [http://www.openculture.com/ Open Culture] has lists of online courses
 
* [http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/ Wolfram Demonstrations Project]. Compilation of interactive visualizations of hundreds of phenomena in science, mathematics, music and other areas. Not collaboratively generated, but released under a Creative Commons license, allowing the elements to be used in collaborative projects.
 
* [http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/ Wolfram Demonstrations Project]. Compilation of interactive visualizations of hundreds of phenomena in science, mathematics, music and other areas. Not collaboratively generated, but released under a Creative Commons license, allowing the elements to be used in collaborative projects.
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*[http://singularityhub.com/2012/03/16/1-5-millions-lessons-and-growing-showme-app-emerges-as-leader-in-ipad-digital-education-revolution/ ShowMe] is an app that allows anyone to record and share lessons using a simple interface of voice recording and a touchscreen whiteboard.
 
* [http://www.popsci.com/node/37498?cmpid=PSCenews090309 How much can you really learn with a free online education] (Wired)
 
* [http://www.popsci.com/node/37498?cmpid=PSCenews090309 How much can you really learn with a free online education] (Wired)
  

Latest revision as of 22:12, 17 March 2012

Educational material can be created and edited collaboratively, constantly evolving and increasing in both quantity and quality, similar to the evolution of the famous wikipedia 11px-Wikipedia_logo.jpg.

Such material is made available free for anyone — teachers or students — to use and customise for their own purposes. This project is in early days, but is very much under way already. Listed below are several sites

Stanford University are running an experimental new course from October-December 2011. It is an introductory college course in artificial intelligence, led by Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun (a leading developer of self-driving cars). The course is available to all free of charge and combines video lectures with online quizzes and assessments. As of August 2011, over 130,000 people have signed up. In the coming years, courses like this are sure become become more interactive and multiply to cover a greater range of subjects.

Film_icon.png Video of Salman Khan of Khan Academy and the teachers of the Stanford online AI Class talking about the new kind of education - free, online, lifelong, curiosity-driven, student-directed education.