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(Sep 2007, by Alan Slavin) "Elementary and high schools spend so much time on the content-laden curriculum that students are unprepared for the analytic and conceptual thinking they'll need at university"

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Systems thinking software (basically dynamic simulation) for research and educational settings.
Worth investigating.

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A group seeking to promote certain methods of thinking, primarily to k-12 education. There may be some interesting features in this approach. Worth examining more closely.

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A commercial enterprise proposing certain fundamental visualizations to help thinking. Seems largely targeted at k-12 education. Visualizations seem quite simple, but the visual grammars of each map relate interestingly to specific relations that might hold between concepts. I would be interested to consider a single language comprising all the visual elements in all the map types (and more).

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An attempt to promote systems thinking at k-12 level.

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"Reprinted by permission from Chapter 1: Introduction to Modern Control Theory, in:
F.L. Lewis, Applied Optimal Control and Estimation, Prentice-Hall, 1992. "

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"Most higher education institutions now require faculty to develop a teaching dossier as evidence of their teaching responsibilities and practice. The teaching dossier may also be required for a tenure and/or promotion application. The following resources have been collected from a variety of sources from Canada and the United States. Best practices in the development of a teaching dossier are provided along with useful tips and tools. "

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"Educators are borrowing from other disciplines -- and nature -- to rethink a staple of undergraduate engineering"

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"GoingOn provides a fast and cost effective way to build vibrant online communities. Leveraging the best of today’s social web, GoingOn Community Platform enables academic institutions to deliver new, more engaging models of knowledge management and social collaboration across their campuses, and to their broad network of constitu­ents. The results include increased student engagement, improved faculty productivity, enhanced online learning and broader marketing outreach."

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A tagged/searchable webliography to open courseware modules. Cool interface.

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Large searchable database of online education resources.

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An aggregation site that tracks links to open courseware, reasonably well organized.

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A webliography directory of open courseware links and modules, reasonably well organized

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A directory of online or virtual lectures - sometimes just lecture notes, reasonably well organized.

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A world map with pointers to locations of open courseware repositories and podcasts/webcasts by academics. Cool Google Maps mashup.

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(Jan 2009) List of links to over 100 OCW related sites

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Courseware developed a-la wikipedia.

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Edubuntu's objective is to create an integrated and usable experience for educational users by enhancing Ubuntu with educational applications, tools, content, and themes.

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Old links on eLearning. Looks more like a weak commercial activity.

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Docebo is an Open Source e-Learning platform (LMS and LCMS) used in corporate and higher education markets. The Platform supports 18 languages and can support different didactic models. Including: Blended, Self-Directed, Collaborative and even Social Learning through Chat, Wiki, Forums and 53 other different functions.

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