Hi, Since this is the first time I am posting to this list, some introduction: I work as a faculty in Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR in Mumbai, India (http://ur1.ca/3amwt). I investigate structure and dynamics of knowledge networks with a special focus in creating free knowledge infrastructures for supporting free education at the gnowledge lab (http://lab.gnowledge.org). I have training in philosophy and science and an activist of free software, free knowledge and contribute as chairperson of Free Software Foundation of India. I also collaborate with Free Technology Academy (http://ftacademy.org).
What gnowledge.org can do to wiki-educator? (among other things) gnowledge lab (http://lab.gnowledge.org) is collecting pre-requisites of all learning objectives (LOs) in a collaborative community portal (http://atlas.gnowledge.org) developed by the lab. The portal will soon go stable with all the expected features to do collaborative construction of semantic relations between LOs using standard semantic web technology. Each learning objective, irrespective of subject area, can be linked to free learning resources (OER) so that a navigation map in the form of a road map (presenting the learning sequence), and road-ahead map (what more to learn having reached somewhere) to the learner. You can view one such map here for a LO, natural selection (http://atlas.gnowledge.org/Data/images/16515_depmap.svg), and for force (http://atlas.gnowledge.org/Data/images/12675_roadmap.svg) These links work in Firefox and other browsers who care for W3C standards. Using these graphs, when linked to OER can provide guidance to people who learn online. The portal's API can be used remotely by other web servers delivering the information as RDF, SVG, DOT formats. We are soon going to announce a Firefox plugin to build a distributed teaching-learning seqeunce from any online OER resource. Hope this is in line with the wikieducator project and the recent initiative of OERU. thanks Nagarjuna -- 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]
