GBC E-learning Guide
From WikEd
Hi Everyone, Here is the place to start your Chapter on a relevant topic related to a GBC e-learning guide. I look forward to your contributions. To get started, just click the edit tab at the top of the page.
[edit] Introduction
This learning guide is designed to assist faculty who are interested in using e-learning tools and techniques in their teaching. The guide was authored by students in the E-learning Specialist course facilitated by Shirley Lesch in 2006. Shirley's students collaborated in this project by using a tool called a "wiki", which allows text to be created and then edited freely by other contributors. (Wikipedia is the best known wiki.) Wikis are one of the tools that you will learn about in this guide. They are one of many tools that teachers can use to add variety to their student's e-learning experience. We hope that you find this guide useful. In keeping with the collaborative method we used to create it, you are invited to add to or improve the guide. To access the wiki, go to [link to be provided]. Enjoy, and happy e-learning!
[edit] Possible Links / References for E-Learning at GBC
The following are just some of the resources/links as provided to us in the E-Learning Specialist Course and it is my hope it will become a comprehensive list that will ultimately need to be reorganized due to such a strong response. :)
Wikiquote [1] Collection of quotations
Wikisource [2] The free library and content source
Commons Shared Media Respository [3] A respository of creative works designed for sharing with others
Ourmedia.org [4] Contains free video and audio as open source
See Chapter 1 in the discussion tab that Julie T. contributed.
[edit] Wikis - a case study
In the fall of 2006, Peter Marshall used a wiki for an an assignment in his Environmental Protection Legislation course. The students' assigned task was to draft an environmental statute that makes manufacturers responsible for all waste associated with the products that they market, including the packaging. Professor Marshall and his students were all new to using wikis, so the assignment started with a simple task. One student was asked to create the first draft of the preamble to the new statute. Professor Marshall provided sample preambles from existing Ontario statutes so that the students would have an idea of what goes into a preamble. Once the first daft has been created, the other students will be invited to add to and/or improve upon it. Once we've gotten our feet wet with the preamble, we'll decide on how to organize the process for drafting the rest of the statute's components. [I am just assigning this task to the class now, so I'll add to this once we see how it goes!]
