Resources for HE
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Introduction
Kevin Brace, E-learning Advisor - Higher Education has put together this collection of resources of special relevant to Higher Education institutions.
USA Specific
These resources originate from USA or North America.
The open video project:
The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities.
http://www.open-video.org/
MERLOT & World Lecture Hall
MERLOT is a vast free searchable database resource providing access to multimedia educational resources for learning & teaching online. USA based, but many are relevant to the UK. The World lecture hall is a vast collection resources similar to the Merlot collection. Subjects range from accounting to zoology. USA based.
http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
http://web.austin.utexas.edu/wlh/index.cfm
Open Courseware!
Similar to the Open Source software principle, i.e. the open sharing of course materials in a community. There are two main sites in this field at HE level: the USA based one (below) and the UK Open University OpenLearn intiative. This database gives access to resources from the following universities:
MIT OCW, Utah State University OCW, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health OCW, Tufts University OCW, Foothill De-Anza SOFIA, Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative.
Access the OpenContent courseware finder here:
http://www.opencontent.org/ocwfinder/
Wikibooks
Wikibooks is a Wikimedia project started on July 10, 2003 with the mission to create a free collection of open-content textbooks that anyone can edit. Since its founding, volunteers have written about 24,800 modules in a multitude of textbooks.
Access these resources here: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page.
This site has a number of sister wikis that you may find useful, some of these are:
Free learning (content creation) tools http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page
Online library of publications http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page
Google books, browse them online
http://books.google.co.uk/books?um=1&spell=1&q=elearning
Shared Weblinks
Main resources page : http://wiki.rscwmsystems.org.uk/index.php/Learning_Resources
Kevin Brace's own web links on web based resources, not HE specific: http://del.icio.us/deliboy/
Our very own Learning Resource Advisor, Matt Gallon's freshly baked weblinks: http://delicious.com/mattgallon
RSC contacts
Kevin Brace contributed this article. He can be contacted on: k.brace@rsc-wm.ac.uk 01902 518931
For more information about the RSC West Midlands, visit our website at http://www.rsc-wm.ac.uk
