Dear friends, I've just uploaded the first draft of 'Quality Assurance In Multimedia Learning Materials' on the WE. This is a project undertaken by CEMCA with two core teams in India and Malaysia.
Wikieducator.org/Quality_Assurance_in_Multimedia_Learning_Materials We will be glad for feedback and reactions as inputs for improvement. Also would it be possible to create a link to this from the main page of WE? Savithri 2008/12/12 aprasad <[email protected]> > *Dear friends at Free Software Foundation,* > > I am a volunteer educator supporting the www.wikieducator.org project that > aims at free and open education curriculum by 2015. I am also a supporter of > Free Software movement. I have also participated in the recently concluded > FSFS conference at Thiruvanthapuram, Kerala which was a great success in > developing commitment in the minds of each and every participant for *'Free > Software, Free Society'*. In this backdrop, I would like to share the > following thoughts about Free Software education with the friends at FSF as > well as WikiEducator community. > > I think that one of the major aspects that adversely affects the pace of the > spread of Free Software options, is the lack of awareness that is caused > by the absence of the formal pedagogical systems that promote the teaching > and learning of FOSS in most parts of the globe. However some Governments and > academic institutions have already started to promote the same, for example > in Kerala Governemnt has introduced Free Software education in the General > Education Sector. Such initiatives in the different parts of the world are > required to be made a general trend. As a first step, a facility may be > established to maintain a repository of the details of such best practices > from the different parts of the world to be collected through free software > communities and collaborating organizations. > > Organized efforts are required to ensure that free software education is > getting consideration in the National Curricula or National Qualifications > Frameworks of different countries. To make it happen, the Free Software > communities may, in collaboration with Academic Bodies and Academicians, > regularly try to develop, update and maintain curricula for different levels > of education so that the academic bodies/universities can adopt the same to > their qualification frameworks and curricula. > > The Higher Education Sector requires setting up of technical qualification > frameworks for Free Software education to enable academic bodies to run > professional certification as well as graduation and research courses on FOSS. > > It may also explore the possibilities, in collaboration with Academic Bodies > and Academicians, to run technical courses under Free, Open and Online > Distance Learning system – which is going to be the leading education system > for the future. I think it will be the ideal choice for the theme 'Free > Software, Free Society'. > > -- > *Warm regards* > ** > > Anil Prasad > http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad > http://wikieducator.org/India > http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework > > http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM > > > > > -- Dr. Savithri Singh Principal Acharya Narendra Dev College (University of Delhi) Govindpuri, Kalkaji New Delhi 110 019 Tel: 2629 4542, 2629 3224, 2641 2547 Fax: (011) 2629 4540 Res: 2584 8151 2584 9786 2584 3496 http://andcollege.du.ac.in http://wikieducator.org/Savithri_Singh http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/India/wikieducator_launch http://www.slideshare.net/singh.savithri --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
