Open content resource from California

 Learning Objects, open content, textbook  No Responses »
Feb 112010
 
A new Web resource for academic open content has been launched by a group of west coast campuses. The Open Educational Resources Center for California is a portal or aggregator, bundling together searches for open textbooks, general educational resources, open courseware, Web 2.0 open media, and open quizzes.  There are other features, too, including [...]

Living Stories: new journalism experiment

 Communications, Google, journalism, Learning Objects, timeline, uncategorized  No Responses »
Feb 102010
 
An experimental Web site offers an interesting approach to journalism. Living Stories, a collaboration between the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Google, consists of a series of major topics. Living Stories aggregates several news streams and information sources under each such header, including a slideshow, an introduction, curated articles, recent coverage, [...]