Basic Education Online Project

• SOFIA project
  http://sofia.fhda.edu/index.htm

• Gallery
  http://sofia.fhda.edu/gallery/

• Sofia Project overview
  http://sofia.fhda.edu/overview.htm
  • Contributions - request for submissions, eligibility criteria
    http://sofia.fhda.edu/criteria-eligibility.htm
  • Review - peer reviewed for quality, depth, instructional design, completeness, and use of interactivity and multimedia, and adherence to high academic standards outlined in review criteria
    http://sofia.fhda.edu/criteria-review.htm
  • Conversion - consistent quality and presentation format, re-usability for a wider audience, accessibility, overall instructional design, and copyright clearance
    http://www.alamedalearning.com/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=SofiaProject
  • Accessability - sincere effort to meet Section 508 requirements for accessibility in WebAIM Section 508 Checklist
    http://www.webaim.org/standards/508/checklist
  • Publication - quality assurance, faculty contributors sign off
  • Evaluation - impact, use, re-use, and access of the course materials to support teaching and learning, models and partnerships to ensure the long-term success and sustainability

• Course template
  • Home and "The Story Behind This Course" - background of the author(s), strategies used in the materials, information on the evolution of the course design, lessons learned, and suggestions as to how the materials can be best used by students and faculty to support teaching and learning.
    Creative Typography - home http://sofia.fhda.edu/gallery/typography/index.html
    - creator profile http://sofia.fhda.edu/gallery/typography/story.html

  • Syllabus
    Java Programming http://sofia.fhda.edu/gallery/java/syllabus.html

  • Schedule
    Web Page Authoring http://sofia.fhda.edu/gallery/html/schedule.html

  • Lessons - lecture, course notes, audio, video
    Elementary Statistics http://sofia.fhda.edu/gallery/statistics/lessons/lesson12-7.html

  • Assignments - directions, worksheets
    Physical Geography http://sofia.fhda.edu/gallery/geography/assignments/assignment02.html

  • Exams - practice, self-test, tests, exams
    Musicianship II http://sofia.fhda.edu/gallery/musicianship/exams.html

  • Discussion

  • Resources - links
    Introduction to Flash MX http://sofia.fhda.edu/gallery/flash/resources.html
    Creative Typography - student projects http://sofia.fhda.edu/gallery/typography/resources.html

  • Customization - Tasks - Carnegie Mellon University's innovative Story Centered Curriculum "provides a just-in-time learning environment that transforms individual students into active learners, given that they are immediately involved in tasks and solving problems."
    Practicum in Enterprise Security http://sofia.fhda.edu/gallery/security/tasks/task04/task04.html

• Evaluation
  • interest and participation in the project by faculty, as reviewers and/or contributors
  • use and re-use - adoption, updates
  • access of the course materials to support teaching and learning - promotion, content format
  • drive down the costs of publication - scalable developemnt / publishing
  • models and partnerships to ensure the long-term success and sustainability of the project - on-going, stewardship

• Sophia Project - feedback from faculty and students

• Hewlett Foundation - Open Content - course materials, other forms of high-quality "open knowledge" materials, including full courses, components of courses such as modules and learning objects, library collections, and research data. Each area of content contributes unique forms of knowledge and allows for the establishment of quality benchmarks. The criteria for our support of educational content made freely accessible on the Web is that it must be exemplary and potentially establish new models for organizing and delivering content. Collectively, these materials might be viewed as a "new public library" in the form of free content. http://www.hewlett.org/Programs/Education/Technology/OpenContent/opencontent.htm

• Basic Education Online Project - League of Innovation - a series of activities designed to identify high-quality courses that will be adapted or redesigned for use in an online, open-content setting. http://www.league.org/league/projects/beo/

• Defining "high quality" in the context of developmental reading, developmental writing, developmental math, and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL/ESL), and identifying criteria for determining high-quality courses in the four content areas. - literature review http://www.league.org/league/projects/beo/files/Literature_Review.pdf

• Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education - educational think tank that conducts research and offers resources with the goal of helping education institutions increase their capacity to use data and information to improve student and institutional success. http://www.iskme.org/

• Connexions - web-based open-source global environment for creating and sharing free educational material and is a project of Rice University http://cnx.rice.edu/

• National Repository of Online Courses - Monterey Institute for Technology and Education - library of high-quality online courses for students and faculty in higher education, high school and Advanced Placement©
  http://www.montereyinstitute.org/nroc.html

• CCC Confer Webinars
  http://www.cccconfer.org/meetingCenter/webinarLogIn.aspx
  10/21/2005 2:00pm-3:00pm Teaching ESL - Connie Tucker ? archive

• PEOI - volunteer course developers, working on a series of ESL courses
  http://www.peoi.org

• Knowledge Sharing & Collaboration 2015 - lots of good ideas about knowledge management - then and future; 23 rules - very appropriate to open course repositories
  http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/09/29.html#a1288

• Community College Meets eBay - bringing learners and educational content together via the web. Infrastructure to improve the chances that the providers and the learners can get together. Learners, courses and facilitators identify themselves, what they need and what they have to offer. Technology helps identify the best matches based on feedback from reviewers, subject matter experts, facilitators and learners, trusted community members ratings. Guided learning and on-demand individual learning
  http://www.alamedalearning.com/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=OpenLearning

• Sloan-C Quality Matters - Rubric for evaluating online courses
  http://www.esac.org/fdi/rubric/finalsurvey/demorubric.asp
• Open Courses
  http://www.alamedalearning.com/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=OpenCourses
• Learning Objects
  http://www.alamedalearning.com/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=LearningObjects
• World Bank, Acrossworld - Sri Lanka
• Sharing open content via RSS feeds and such - Stephen Dowes