Does anyone has ideas about how to using MIT Open courseware ? I means, develop a MIT Open Courseware Course Format or just link it to Moodle course?
Please take a look at ocw.mit.edu. There are thousands of free coursewares.
Developing MIT Open Courseware Course Format seems to be a great idea. I planned to develop this format but I have not had much time recently.
How about you?
How about you?
Well, I have a little time.
Could you please send me (hntangwei AT gmail DOT com) a document about your ideas of MIT Open courseware.
Then we can talk details about it and start for a alpha version?
Great!
Does this means you will add open course support into moodle? Via Course Format ? Blocks? or an new CMS module?
Is MIT and UoU open courseware will be supported too?There are founding by Hewlett Foundation too. In fact, we are interested in MIT more than Open University, because there were thousands of courseware already avialiable.
How can we help on this project?
There is a significant difference between the MIT OCW and OU OCI projects. While OCW primarily publishes syllabi, lecture notes and problem sets, OCI will be publishing whole texts that have been used in distance education courses. I think the combination of the two projects will have significant impacts.
Also, take a look at the Utah State OCW project (http://cosl.usu.edu/projects/). I know Dave Wiley has done some really good work in this area.
Also, take a look at the Utah State OCW project (http://cosl.usu.edu/projects/). I know Dave Wiley has done some really good work in this area.
Exciting news!
Let's see, isn't the Open University moving towards Moodle? Imagine such a large installation making a bunch of courses freely available as Moodle backups!
Let's see, isn't the Open University moving towards Moodle? Imagine such a large installation making a bunch of courses freely available as Moodle backups!
Yes, imagine. 
Alternatively, you could imagine a very large repository of content available for direct integration into your Moodel course (with an integration plug-in freely available in October or November)... Or you could go to our fun play space, roll your own course from the materials, then download it yourself.
Thanks!
Can we download beta version of this plug-in? Or we can get some demo/pictures of this?
Is there another guy working on distribution repository of content?
What is "Dave Wiley really good work "
Can we found an available version of distribution repository or duplicating resource module for Moodle?
Dave Wiley works on the development of eduCommons
However, at my home institution I was stopped in experimenting with eduCommons, since people regarded it as too much of an effort to support/use two different tools for course ware development (moodle+eduCommons). Therefore I now try to do something similar, using moodle only. What I would desperately need is a way to seperate between a public and a restricted view on materials within a single course (see the following thread http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=38003). I came up with some clumsy solutions, but I am still not satisfied yet. I hope that version 1.6 will provide some improvements on that issue. In case you are interested, just let me know.
Thomas
"eduCommons is an OpenCourseWare Management System designed specifically to support OpenCourseWare projects like MIT OCW and USU OCW."
The best thing is to contact John Dehlin, the director of outreach for eduCommons, a very nice guy, who will be glad to give any information and support on eduCommons. (I know from personal experience!)However, at my home institution I was stopped in experimenting with eduCommons, since people regarded it as too much of an effort to support/use two different tools for course ware development (moodle+eduCommons). Therefore I now try to do something similar, using moodle only. What I would desperately need is a way to seperate between a public and a restricted view on materials within a single course (see the following thread http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=38003). I came up with some clumsy solutions, but I am still not satisfied yet. I hope that version 1.6 will provide some improvements on that issue. In case you are interested, just let me know.
Thomas
I've also used Utah State University's eduCommons, and we've made it sort of a 3rd tier priority to begin moving some of our online course content into USU's eduCommons. Interestingly, the OCW movement caught our department just as we were looking at transitioning from WebCT CE 4x to WebCT Vista 3x. At the same time we had just begun to look at making our course content available to learners via mobile Web browsers (if any of you attended the WebCT-led mobile session at last year's Impact you'll know they're not even close).
The obvious problem we faced was, how do you migrate or port one course to multiple CMSs/platforms without a huge burn of resources? How do you even think about maintaining it? My colleague and I have come up with a pretty fair and quite simple solution which we've dubbed "Shadow Files." The system is designed to host course content in a single source library, and automatically generate reference "shadow files" for any CMS or platform we choose. We are moving from proof-of-concept to a full alpha test this spring. I talked about the concept on a panel at last year's COSL conference, and will be presenting our finished system at this year's WCET conference if any of you all are interested in finding out more.