Friday, January 21, 2005

Site Profile: the Sofia Project "The Sofia project is an open content initiative launched by the Foothill - De Anza Community College District with funding support from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Under the leadership of Foothill College, Sofia promotes faculty and institutional sharing of online content. Modeled after MIT’s OpenCourseWare Initiative, Sofia encourages the free exchange of community college-level materials on the World Wide Web. It is our hope that Sofia will lead to the exploration of ways of supporting instruction and student learning using web-based resources." I've been tracking the development of the Sofia project for several months and I'm pleased to see the initial offering of eight courses in the Sofia Course Gallery (http://sofia.fhda.edu/gallery/): Creative Typography, Elementary Statistics, Physical Geography, Enterprise Network Security, Introduction to Java Programming, Introduction to Macromedia Flash, Musicianship II, and Webpage Authoring. The course materials are well constructed, well organized, and effectively presented; they should be of value to both instructors and to self-study students. JH 2:58:41 PM    COMMENT []