Links of interest 12/31/2011

• MIT launches online learning initiative - MIT News Office

  MIT today announced the launch of an online learning initiative internally called “MITx.” MITx will offer a portfolio of MIT courses through an online interactive learning platform that will:
  
  * organize and present course material to enable students to learn at their own pace
  * feature interactivity, online laboratories and student-to-student communication
  * allow for the individual assessment of any student’s work and allow students who demonstrate their mastery of subjects to earn a certificate of completion awarded by MITx
  * operate on an open-source, scalable software infrastructure in order to make it continuously improving and readily available to other educational institutions"

  tags: opencourseware openeducation onlinelearning

  • Kithens London and Kitchens Manchester
    http://www.wilsonfink.co.uk/
    - post by Harry Jack
  • It's so good.I like it.
    slewing ring bearing. - post by ysfabian01

• Free Online Idea Management and Collaboration Service | Wridea.com

  Wridea is a brainstorming tool that enables one to collaborate and share ideas with colleagues, students, and fellow learners and organize and categorize ideas onto different pages, providing unlimited storage, and also allowing users to comment on topics and ideas. Features of Wridea are

  tags: collaborative organization productivity

  • basic project management tool. Create a page for each project and different categories for each work type. - post by yc c

• B.C. Public responds: Group Students by Ability and Promote Personalized Learning | Personalized Learning (PLearning) | Scoop.it

  tags: personallearning

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