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

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* [http://disqo.org/ Disqo]
 
* [http://disqo.org/ Disqo]
 
* [http://www.khanacademy.org/ Khan Academy], a series of tutorial videos, mostly of science and maths, explaining concepts very well. Includes a testing feature exactly like the one described [[Education#An_alternative_to_examinations|below]]. Not collaboratively generated, but released under a Creative Commons license.
 
* [http://www.khanacademy.org/ Khan Academy], a series of tutorial videos, mostly of science and maths, explaining concepts very well. Includes a testing feature exactly like the one described [[Education#An_alternative_to_examinations|below]]. Not collaboratively generated, but released under a Creative Commons license.
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* [http://www.udacity.com/ Udacity], from February 2012, offering high-quality, no-cost, univeristy-level courses focused on computer science
 
* {{wp|OpenCourseWare|OpenCourseWare}} such as {{em}}
 
* {{wp|OpenCourseWare|OpenCourseWare}} such as {{em}}
 
** MIT's original initiative - {{wp|MIT_OpenCourseWare|MIT OpenCourseWare}} and [http://www.youtube.com/user/MIT MIT's YouTube channel]
 
** MIT's original initiative - {{wp|MIT_OpenCourseWare|MIT OpenCourseWare}} and [http://www.youtube.com/user/MIT MIT's YouTube channel]

Revision as of 00:34, 6 February 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.