Friday, June 22, 2007

Connexions - Building Communities and Sharing Knowledge

This is an interesting Google video presentation on Connexions that talks about stove piping and dis-integration that prevents collaboration in education. For anyone who has spent over $150 on a textbook, it is revolutionary, and had me saying "a-ha" almost immediately. Folks have been doing this in Web 2.0 for a while, and it looks like forward thinkers in education are getting on board.

Think Open Source textbooks; the subjects are all over the place and include science, math, humanities, etc. I just looked at a great music quiz this morning, complete with mp3 listening samples.

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