SoFIA Releases First 8 Open Content Courses. Sofia (Sharing of Free Intellectual Assets)
intends to do for the community college level what MIT's Open
Courseware offers for upper division courses- free, open content
courses you can use in whole or part. Free with Creative Commons
licensing. The first 8 courses are available from their gallery:
The pilot grant open content initiative, Sofia (Sharing
of Free Intellectual Assets), was initiated in March of 2004 under the
leadership of Vivian 'Vivie' Sinou, Dean of Distance & Mediated
Learning at Foothill College. "Open" content refers to material that is
freely available for use by faculty, students, and self-learners.
The Sofia finalists include the following content contributed by
faculty from five California Community Colleges: Creative Typography,
by Carolyn Brown, Foothill College; Introduction to Java Programming,
Steven Gilbert, Orange Coast College; Elementary Statistics, by Susan
Dean and Barbara Illowsky, De Anza College; Physical Geography, by
Allison Lenkeit, Foothill College; Musicianship, by Don Megill and Dave
Megill, Mira Costa College; Enterprise Network Security, by Sukhjit
Singh, De Anza College and Mike Murphy, Foothill College; Web Page
Authoring, Jo Anne Howell, Gavilan College; and Macromedia Flash, by
Marcia Ganeles, Foothill College.
I just skimmed Web Page Authoring and found it clean, comprehensive, with not just content, but assignments, exams, and discussion areas.
Are these Learning Objects? "course objects?" Who cares what you call it, it's good stuff... and it is free.
Keep an eye on SoFIA, she's a looking gooooooood... [cogdogblog]
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