Skills: noneConcepts: evolution of media, modular teaching material

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Beyond the textbook

Where does this topic fit?

• Internet concepts– Applications– Technology– Implications

• Internet skills– Application development– Content creation– User skills

The Assassination of the Duke de Guise (1908) Who’s afraid of Virginia Wolff? (1966

Gutenberg Bible, 1455

Aldus Manutius,over 50 years later

The end of the textbook?

Textbook evolution predictions:

• E-texts will be discoverable modular.• E-texts will be social, enabling conversations among local students and faculty,

other students and faculty using the module and the module author.• Professors will be curators, selecting modules to teach, creating new modules,

and finding related people and material.• We will need new tools to support this activity.• We will need new ways of producing, discovering and marketing teaching

modules.

Tomorrow's Campus -- Information Processing at Tomorrow's University, Communications of the ACM, Vol 37, No 7, pp 13-17, July, 1994.

Professor’s view (requires an account)

A modular biology etext

A new business model

Merlot

http://www.merlot.org/

Kahn Academy

http://www.khanacademy.org/

Kahn Academy arithmetic example (a screencast)

Kahn Academy art history example (a narrated video)

Kahn Academy examples

Check these out before you continue.

To teach is to learn twice.

Example: Gerrymander

Example:Combustion

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A single student project

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Topic modules Complete course

Supplement

Digital literacy

Summary

Self-study questions

Find a Merlot module that is relevant to a course you are currently taking. Write a brief description of the module and state whether it would be helpful to you? If so, show it to your professor.

Find a Kahn Academy module that is relevant to a course you are taking or took in the past. Write a brief description of the module and state whether it would be helpful to you? If so, show it to the professor.

Would you be willing to pay $49 for a lifetime subscription to a regularly updated textbook for any course you have taken? Which one?

List the advantages and disadvantages of Nature’s electronic text compared to a traditional biology textbook.

List the advantages and disadvantages of Nature’s electronic text compared to an electronic version of a traditional biology textbook.

ResourcesReview of Nature’s modular biology text: http://cis471.blogspot.com/2011/11/post-gutenberg-e-text-for-biology-101.html

Merlot: http://www.merlot.org

The Kahn Academy: http://www.merlot.org

Techburst videos: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA9F9FCE212B121CF

Techburst home: http://c21u.gatech.edu/techburst

IT Essentials course: http://cis275topics.blogspot.com/2011/04/modular-it-literacy-course-for-internet.html

IT literacy – evolution, curriculum and a modular e-text:http://som.csudh.edu/fac/lpress/presenatations/modularbiotext.pptx

The legacy of Aldus Manutius and his press: http://net.lib.byu.edu/aldine/

Electronic versions of textbooks

Copies of print books