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Where does this topic fit?Internet conceptsApplicationsTechnologyImplicationsInternet skills Application developmentContent creationUser skills
The Assassination of the Duke de Guise (1908) Who’s afraid of Virginia Wolff? (1966
Gutenberg Bible, 1455
Aldus Manutius,over 50 years later
The end of the textbook?
Textbook evolution predictions:E-texts will be discoverable modular.E-texts will be social, enabling conversations among local students and faculty, other students and faculty using the module and the module author. Professors will be curators, selecting modules to teach, creating new modules, and finding related people and material.We will need new tools to support this activity.We will need new ways of producing, discovering and marketing teaching modules. Tomorrow's Campus -- Information Processing at Tomorrow's University, Communications of the ACM, Vol 37, No 7, pp 13-17, July, 1994.
Professor’s view (requires an account)A modular biology etext
A new business model
Merlot http://www.merlot.org/
Kahn Academyhttp://www.khanacademy.org/
Kahn Academy arithmetic example (a screencast)Kahn Academy art history example (a narrated video) Kahn Academy examplesCheck these out before you continue.
To teach is to learn twice. Example: GerrymanderExample:Combustion
Check it out A single student project
. . . Topic modules Complete course Supplement Digital literacy
Summary
Self-study questionsFind a Merlot module that is relevant to a course you are currently taking. Write a brief description of the module and state whether it would be helpful to you? If so, show it to your professor.Find a Kahn Academy module that is relevant to a course you are taking or took in the past. Write a brief description of the module and state whether it would be helpful to you? If so, show it to the professor.Would you be willing to pay $49 for a lifetime subscription to a regularly updated textbook for any course you have taken? Which one?List the advantages and disadvantages of Nature’s electronic text compared to a traditional biology textbook.List the advantages and disadvantages of Nature’s electronic text compared to an electronic version of a traditional biology textbook.
ResourcesReview of Nature’s modular biology text: http://cis471.blogspot.com/2011/11/post-gutenberg-e-text-for-biology-101.html Merlot: http://www.merlot.orgThe Kahn Academy: http://www.merlot.orgTechburst videos: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA9F9FCE212B121CFTechburst home: http://c21u.gatech.edu/techburstIT Essentials course: http://cis275topics.blogspot.com/2011/04/modular-it-literacy-course-for-internet.htmlIT literacy – evolution, curriculum and a modular e-text:http://som.csudh.edu/fac/lpress/presenatations/modularbiotext.pptxThe legacy of Aldus Manutius and his press: http ://net.lib.byu.edu/aldine /
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