http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:33:52 PDT Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:33:52 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=766761 Abstract: This paper reports on a two-phase exploratory study that involved student use of the asynchronous multimedia communication tool VoiceThread within a business policy course. In the first phase, students participated in a VoiceThread exercise consisting of an exam review followed by a survey on the use of VoiceThread. Of the 22 participants (from a class of 61 graduating seniors), 64% specified they would like to use VoiceThread for future learning activities, and 73% indicated they would recommend VoiceThread to peers for the purpose of delivering presentations. In the second phase, 13 of the 22 respondents to the first phase were sent follow-up questions to elicit their perspectives as to whether the use of VoiceThread satisfied Chickering and Gamson's (1987) Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education. Eight of the 13 students responded, with almost all responses being positive with respect to the Seven Principles. The results lend some initial support to the idea that VoiceThread can be an effective tool for facilitating learning activities in business and other courses.Volume 8, No. 3, September 2012, pp. 223-237HTML / PDF http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=655135 edX is a joint partnership between Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) and Harvard University to begin providing global, free-open-source, online learning content and courses offerred at M.I.T. and Harvard, Course content will include "self-paced learning, online discussion groups, wiki-based collaborative learning, assessment of learning as a student progresses through a course, and online laboratories." Certificates of course completion will be offered to those students that succeed in completing all course work. Data collected from online learning courses will be studied to help make improvements to the Online Learning and Teaching platform. Their first course: M.I.T's "Introduction to Circuits and Electronics" began earlier this year with more courses to follow. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=290331 Among the projects that the Foundation has underwritten in whole or in part are MIT's Open Courseware program, which has published virtually all MIT courses on the program's Web site; Carnegie Mellon University's Open Learning Initiative, a highly interactive approach designed to measure the effectiveness of the teaching; African Virtual University's development of an open educational resources strategy, which provides digital and printable material to train teachers in sub-Saharan Africa; and Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that helps creators of intellectual property preserve a range of rights while sharing content. This website also features the following: images, links to related material, teacher's guide and glossary terms. For more information on the Hewlett Foundation please go to: http://www.hewlett.org/Programs/Education/OER/