I'm passing along this report about News University from Stephen Downes. As Stephen says, the site is still under development. Let's hope that the courses remain open. News University should be of especial interest to bloggers since many of the course topics apply directly or indirectly to blogging. See for example, Telling Stories with Sound, Cleaning Your Copy, and Language of the Image. ____JH
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News University. This is an interesting site. The courses vary from very short and informal - like the Be a Reporter game - to courses that are rather more in-depth and topical, like the covering water quality issues course. Many of the courses are free, though it looks like they're reserving an option to charge for enrollment. The course list includes live webinars are well as more traditional categories. The site is a few steps away from wheree they want to be, though, as I don't really get a sense of any community or RSS course feeds. There is a blog, though, which partially makes up for that. Various Authors, The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, September 7, 2007 [Tags: Traditional and Online Courses, Ontologies, RSS, Quality] [Link] [Comment] [Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily]
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