[IAEP] OERs and collaboration

[mokurai at earthtreasury.org]

On Fri, May 13, 2011 3:31 am, Teemu Leinonen wrote:
> On 12.5.2011, at 18.09, Valerie Taylor wrote:
>> A wiki-based solution could work.
>
> We are hosting an experimental wiki-like solution for primary and
> secondary school teachers for finding, authoring and sharing OERs. The
> are close to 20 000 educators from 65 countries working in 48
> languages (the UI is available in 14 languages). The site is here:
>
> http://lemill.net/

Added to

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Open_Education_Resources#Sources

> In LeMill teachers can create:
>
> I Content
> (1) educational web pages with embedded media,
> (2) exercise with
> 	a) multiple choice questions,
> 	b) fill-in-the-blanks exercise,
> 	c) open-ended questions or upload questions from Hot Potatoes,
> (3) Lesson plans
> (4) Media pieces (upload images and sound clips)
> (5) Reference (links to external websites
>
> II Methods
> - Descriptions of teaching and learning methods (from brainstorming to
> seminar)
>
> III Tools
> - Descriptions of teaching and learning tools (from post-it notes to
> mindmap software)
>
> Despite of the relatively large number of users and OERs only the
> Georgian and the Estonian communities are truly active and lively. The
> tag cloud of languages spoken by the community members is interesting:
>
> http://lemill.net/community/cloud?base=language&type=MemberFolder
>
> We also have some hypothesis why the Georgians and Estonians are so
> active.
>
> It would be great to have more Sugar-related content on LeMill.

I am the Replacing Textbooks Project Manager for Sugar Labs. We should
discuss how we can work together.

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks

> Best regards,
>
> 	- Teemu
>
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