As part of my Teaching Online Open Learning training, I recently explored a number of digital learning communities. I was least familiar with the social bookmarking sites, though my sister-in-law, a local spanish teacher, uses them and has told me about them. I didn't really care for any of the bookmarking sites I came across, but maybe if I followed the right person I would.
I did explore Jeff Giddens social bookmarking page. He had a number of interesting links, many of which I was familiar with already. Here is a link to Jeff's Delicious page if you are interested.
https://delicious.com/gavljeff/digital%20learning%20community
Below are five of the digital learning communities that I explored.
Khan Academy - This one has the most name recognition. The academy covers lots of information, but I've always found the presentation style of Khan Academy to be boring. I hate screencasts.
MIT OCW - This is one of the first open learning communities that I discovered. I found it from an article linked on lewrockwell.com. I've used this extensively, both for my own learning and for teaching chemistry and AP Physics.
Open Yale - This one is like MIT OCW. I like it, but have used it less.
University of the People - This was a new one to me. It looks like it just organizes many of the other online education options, like OCW consortium
OCW consortium - I've browsed this before and still like it.
I'm already a member of a couple of digital learning communities. I love EdX, both for my on learning and for recommending to students.
www.edx.org
I am also a member of the AP Teacher Community.
https://apcommunity.collegeboard.org/
I will explore the bookmarking sites more in the future.
No comments:
Post a Comment