I just got back from a meeting about how to make open education resources easier to find and use in the classroom -- OER_Discovery_2009. In order for us to do the best job helping faculty, teachers, and students find material, we need to hear what is easy and what is hard right now.
Are you teaching? What sorts of barriers to finding good resources do you have?
Are you teaching? What sorts of barriers to finding good resources do you have?
- How do you find new materials for your class?
- Colleague suggestions?
- Google searches?
- YouTube searches?
- Specialized searches at education sites that you frequent?
- Are you worried about copyright restrictions and whether or not you can use or modify the resource?
- What is most frustrating to you about looking for resources?
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It's not resources that are hard to find. It's managing the output of the students that is hard to find.
Though on the resource end the problem is too much at least for K to undergrad in college. The problem AFAIAC is the lack of organization. I have yet to find a way to work with others to catalog the web into meaningful lesson plans/work units for students.
I was hoping that CNX would help in that regard but sadly the tools are not 'fast acting' like wikihow, mixedink, wikipedia, even instructables editing UI _and_ has a pretty decent Q & A UI (CNX doesn't have a Q&A section, a .js for quick citations, nor user forum(that I can find), nor place to meet possible collaborators to work on mutually interesting projects).
Hi Dennis -
We're actually working on a number of the things that you mentioned as I type; we're checking into a number of options for developing a user-driven community site for things such as self-help, forums for organizing collaboration, etc. We're doing a lot of the design work for that now, and I am hoping to have something out by early fall - hopefully that will take care of at least some of those concerns (and give you a good place to discuss the rest!).
As for Q&A, you might want to take a look at the <exercise> element in CNXML to see if that is what you're looking for? If not, please shoot me an email with an example of what you're looking for and I'd be happy to work with you to either 1) show you how to do what you want to do within the system or, if not, 2) get a feature request submitted to the development team for future consideration.
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