http://www.shelleykeith.com/work/2009/supporting-online-education/ geek girl living the technophile life Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:33:36 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.shelleykeith.com/work/2009/supporting-online-education/comment-page-1/#comment-67 WPMU Tutorials » news for the week ending March 20 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:39:09 +0000 http://www.eironae.com/?p=442#comment-67 [...] location to perform user authentication and management requests between different web applications. Open source & social media as online education support tools More and more universities are looking at WPMU for their needs. Installing WordPressmU in a [...] [...] location to perform user authentication and management requests between different web applications. Open source & social media as online education support tools More and more universities are looking at WPMU for their needs. Installing WordPressmU in a [...]

]]> http://www.shelleykeith.com/work/2009/supporting-online-education/comment-page-1/#comment-64 Arpita Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:27:04 +0000 http://www.eironae.com/?p=442#comment-64 Your post covers a very relevant topic of eLearning the community way. Should we say eLearning 2.0 to borrow from Web 2.0? I believe this is the way to go in todays "Flat world" where exchanges no longer be limited to a campus or even a country. Open source showed how practical it is to collaborate and learn. Why can't learning institutions do the same? To give it a shape of reality, recently a group of like minded people decided to start a portal called kenfuse.com catering to the simple objective of taking open source to the classroom. Realize that community learning can be easily extended to beyond open source as the tools remain largely the same. The courses can also have faculty collaborate across campus. Thoughts? Your post covers a very relevant topic of eLearning the community way. Should we say eLearning 2.0 to borrow from Web 2.0? I believe this is the way to go in todays “Flat world” where exchanges no longer be limited to a campus or even a country. Open source showed how practical it is to collaborate and learn. Why can’t learning institutions do the same? To give it a shape of reality, recently a group of like minded people decided to start a portal called kenfuse.com catering to the simple objective of taking open source to the classroom. Realize that community learning can be easily extended to beyond open source as the tools remain largely the same. The courses can also have faculty collaborate across campus. Thoughts?

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