Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Site Profile: Connexions Revisited I updated the EduResource Portal (http://sage.eou.edu/SPT/) entry for the Connexions site earlier this week; when Connexions was first covered in the portal, three years ago, its contents were limited to the topic of "communications engineering"--now the course and module topics are much expanded and the web site is much better organized. Stephen Downes provides a helpful report on the current Connexions site in his Places to Go column of Innovate. ____JH "Places to Go: Connexions" by Stephen Downes (Volume 1, Issue 5, June/July 2005). Stephen Downes reviews Rice University's Connexions, a one-stop service that allows educators to create learning objects, instructors to assemble them into modules and courses, and readers to learn from the resulting resources. Open-content licenses make all material on the site freely available, and related resources are linked for easy access. While crediting Connexions for these and other valuable features, Downes also identifies limitations in content creation and export that keep the system from reaching its full potential. [Innovate] 8:18:00 AM    COMMENT []