Examples

I.    Open Course
II.   Open Source Professional Development
III.  Open Source Software Development

I.  Open Course Examples 

• Collaborate!

http://www.stanford.edu/group/collaborate

Provides a clearinghouse of information on and productive models of collaboration in the humanities and on best practices for institutional change;  bibliography and links to related sites provide a starting point for those interested in collaborative research and writing.  Visitors are invited to join and contribute related links.  

 

• Digital Photobiology Compendium 

http://classes.kumc.edu/grants/dpc/
At the DPC you can compile a manual of resources to suit your individual needs as a learner.  If you're an instructor, you can connect with other Photobiology instructors who teach similar materials.  If you would like to help contribute to the PDC, you can submit and help develop Photobiology modules.   

• Harvey Project

http://harveyproject.org/
An international collaboration of educators, researchers, physicians, students, programmers, instructional designers and graphic artists working together to build interactive, dynamic human physiology course materials on the Web. Materials produced by the Harvey Project will be made freely available to any educational institution.

 

• Math Forum

http://mathforum.org/
The Math Forum's mission is to provide resources, materials, activities, person-to-person interactions, and educational products and services that enrich and support teaching and learning in an increasingly technological world.

 

• Mathematical Sciences Digital Library 

http://www.mathdl.org/

 

• MIT OpenCourseWare

http://web.mit.edu/ocw/  
"MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) will make the course materials that are used in the teaching of virtually all of MIT's courses available on the Web, free of charge, to any user anywhere in the world. Depending on the particular course or the style in which the course is taught, this could include material such as lecture notes, course outlines, reading lists, and assignments for each course."

 

• Physics Materials

Open Physics Education Listserv

http://www.topica.com/lists/openphys

"Some Free Physics Materials"
Listing of open-source physics-education materials on the web at
http://www.lightandmatter.com/openphys/
Free books at 
http://www.theassayer.org/cgi-bin/asbrowsetitle.cgi?minfree=2&countrev&search=

 

"The Bazaar Approach to Physics Education," 
AAPT Announcer 30(4), 120 (2000), online as "aapt_jan2001_v0.9.pdf" 

The authors propose a curriculum development and reform model based on the "bazaar approach" to computer software development described by Raymond (2001). In the case of physics education, individual teachers or departments would be the counterparts of the community of code warriors (hackers) who have contributed so effectively to the development of

open-source software such as Linux.

http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~ntg/aapt/

 

"The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary"

(O'Reilly & Associates (1999); continually updated and on line at 
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/

 

Disseminating Innovative Curricula: A Modified Role for Dissemination Sites

AAPT Announcer 30(4), 120; online as

http://perlnet.umephy.maine.edu/research/qmdissem2001sd.pdf

 

• Robert Stephenson's Bookmarks of Interesting, Useful Websites
  www.opencourse.org/presentations/itap2001/bookmark.htm
       Links to Rich Content Examples
      Links to Open Course Projects

 

II.  Open Source Professional Development Examples

 

• DocShare

http://www.docshare.org

DocShare is a consortium of staff members at higher education institutions dedicated to producing computer-related documentation and newsletters. DocShare aims to facilitate the exchange of members' internally produced computing documentation and newsletter articles for adaptation or reprinting by participating academic institutions and to encourage collaboration between member institutions in the development of additional documentation

 

• IMOWA

http://www.imowa.org  

The purpose of this site is to support program workshops offered in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and Kansas and to provide access for all faculty to resources created for those workshops. Users can submit workshop announcements via this Website.

 

• MERLOT

http://merlot.org/Home.po
MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students in higher education. With a continually growing collection of online learning materials, peer reviews, and assignments MERLOT helps faculty enhance instruction.

 

 

III.  Open Source Software Development Examples

• MIT Open Knowledge Initiative

http://web.mit.edu/oki/  
"The Open Knowledge Initiative will identify, design, and package a set of web-enabled learning components to serve the widest range of educational environments. Our solutions will enhance and streamline the development, delivery, and sustainability of interesting and advanced knowledge components in the future. Our efforts will include strategies for engaging the educational community to inform the design of the product and support its ongoing development and use. A key characteristic of the project will be its adherence to the open-source approach for software development."

 

• CollabNet 

www.collabnet.org

Provides a host of services for open source projects, including project hosting, version control, bug and issue tracking, project management, backups and archives, and communication and collaboration resources.  CollabNet has a fee-for-services business model, and hosts a small number of open source or proprietary projects developed by major technology companies

 

• SourceForge 

www.sourceforge.net

Provides a host of services for open source projects, including project hosting, version control, bug and issue tracking, project management, backups and archives, and communication and collaboration resources.    SourceForge provides these services without charge and hosts over 25,000 projects.  The SourceForge engine itself is open source.

Several of the above  links are included as a result of the discussions at the July, 2001 "Open Course" workshop hosted by the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and led by Robert Stephenson of Wayne State University.